588 examples of arduous in sentences

The windows are of fine stained glass, and the view from the belfry tower, over the peculiar old townwith its curious turrets and roofs, whose best days have long passedis worth the somewhat arduous mount to get to it.

In the discharge of that duty, however, the labour which he has necessarily bestowed, though always pleasing, has often been considerable, and sometimes arduous; and he trusts that the plan of the work, which is altogether original, will be found appropriately adapted to the end in view, and that the execution may appear not inadequate to the high importance of the subject.

Full many a thought that thrills my breast Is fruit resulting from a seed Sown elsewhere,on my soul impressed By many an arduous deed; Full many a fetter which hath lamed My struggling spirit's upward flight Was once by that same spirit framed, When further from the Light; With justice, therefore, comes the pain That o'er the tortured world extends; And hopeful is the lessening stain, As each life-cycle ends.

To the Lords again, where the SPEAKER-ELECT, attired in Court dress and accompanied by the SERGEANT-AT-ARMS dandling the Mace as if it ware a refractory infant, presented himself at the Bar to hear from the LORD CHANCELLOR the pleasing intelligence that HIS MAJESTY was convinced of his "ample sufficiency" to execute his arduous duties, and readily approved his election.

He was at this age very arduous and assiduous in the pursuit of knowledge.

And heaven meets our affections when they ascend, as it met Jesus; and he who so walks, climbing the arduous way from the Valley of Baca to the temple on the mount (for we must walk until we get our wings of angelic strength), will so approach the heavenly threshold, as, like holy Enoch, he can cross it at a step.

As for me, long tossed on the stormiest waves of doubtful conflict and arduous endeavor, I have begun to feel, since the shades of forty years fell upon me, the weary tempest-driven voyager's longing for land, the wanderer's yearning for the hamlet where in childhood he nestled by his mother's knee, and was soothed to sleep on her breast.

After long and arduous efforts to secure relaxation from the doctrinal subscription imposed on the clergy, Lindsey resigned his living at Catterick, in 1773, facing poverty and hardship with a courage that elicited warm commendations, though few were found to imitate the example.

He continued an arduous work for some fifteen years, but it wore him out before his time.

The following January, Georgia and I entered public school in Sacramento, where we spent a year and a half in earnest and arduous study.

The public would have found it hard to believe that at last Alan Massey was leading the most temperate and arduous of lives and devoting himself exclusively to one woman whom he treated as reverently as if she were a goddess.

We have all known the anticipated ills of lifethe danger that looked so big, the duty that looked so arduous, the entanglement that we could not see our way throughprove to have been nothing more than spectres on the far horizon; and when at length we reached them, all their difficulty had vanished into air, leaving us to think what fools we had been for having so needlessly conjured up phantoms to disturb our quiet.

But the trial will be severe and arduous."

He has, for a long time, discharged its arduous and responsible duties with singular ability.

One tied a kettle of sand to his slave to render his journey more arduous.

The land where it is raised is often inundated, and the labor of preparing it, and raising a crop, is very arduous.

The care of even such children as there were was also less arduous; crêche and school held out hands for them, ready to do even that duty better.

In a case new and arduous, like the present, difficulties might naturally be expected.

The impressions with which I first undertook the arduous trust were explained on the proper occasion.

What is the undertaking so arduous, that by some has not been accomplished?

With a son still almost a child, ambitious nobles jealous of her power, and a great nation looking towards herself for support and consolation, she might well shrink as she contemplated the arduous task which had so suddenly devolved upon her.

He may even think I am not strong enough for such an arduous duty.

The superintendent was a man well known and much respected, and was eminently qualified for his arduous task.

This most arduous feat is accomplished in the children's summer day in the tower, and with enchanting success.

My labors had been very arduous during the entire year, but had been well sustained until the latter part of the winter, when my health failed, resulting doubtless rather from exposure than labor.

588 examples of  arduous  in sentences