Word: arduous
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...life of the poco is indeed a trying one. Beset with arduous cares, compelled at all times to be at his post in rainy or in stormy weather, forced to stoop to petty barter and ignoble shifts. what wonder that his mind assumes a stern and misanthropic cast and that soon...
...English scholar during a holiday excursion in the Hartz Mountains subjected himself one day to a severe physical strain which produced a singular mental disturbance. He was on his feet from morning till night, and in the course of the day's wanderings made several arduous ascents, taking no rest and neither eating nor sleeping. At night when he reached a place where he could supply his needs he was unable, to his great astonishment, to recollect a single word of the German language, although he ordinarily spoke it with fluency. His memory did not fail him in any other...
...clear field; and his breast swelled with pride and two overcoats as he thought thereupon. He would make the fair creature the recipient of a New Year's gift which should make her his for ever, - something dainty and suggestive. What should it be? After long and arduous cogitation he had evolved an idea...
...accepted at Cambridge, it must be accepted for a race on some other course than the Thames. Perhaps I may, in another letter to your paper or the Advocate, try to exhibit some of the reasons which make the task of management on this particular course peculiarly arduous as well as expensive. I wish, too, that I had the power to make the undergraduates of both colleges realize more clearly the necessity of having a solid financial basis for the good management of their annual boat race. The "transportation interest" supplies this basis at New London, the "hotel interest" supplies...
...preparations for the performances of the OEdipus Tyrannus in Sanders Theatre, next spring, are being actively pushed forward, with every prospect of success. Professor White, as is well known, has undertaken the arduous task of general direction. The charge of the detail has been carefully allotted to other gentlemen, who will make a special study of the departments intrusted to them. Thus, Professor Paine will write the music; he has indeed already written the score for the first and second choruses. Professors Goodwin and Norton will attend to the costumes; Professor J. D. Allen to the dancing; Mr. John Wheeler...