Difficult as the way had been heretofore, it now became laborious in the extreme for this smaller band.

The want of books available to Students, and the novelty of the subject, made the preparation more laborious than the duration of the lectures would seem to imply.

The passage was very laborious for the crew, who were not protected by an awning (temperature in the sun 35° R., of the water 25° R. ), and lasted thirty-one hours, with few intermissions; the party voluntarily abridging their intervals of rest in order to get back quickly to Tacloban, which keeps up an active intercourse with Manila, and has all the attractions of a luxurious city for the men living on the inhospitable eastern coast.

The road had become so steep and laborious by this time that Bowles was very glad to forego the pleasure of talking.

On the whole, the preparation of coffee is not fatiguing, and even the gathering of it is far from being as laborious as reaping is with us.

This port, so slow and laborious of creation, this river where commerce is in its death agony, we shall see covered with masts, giving us an idea of the forests of Europe in winter.

I have left my letter lying for a couple of days, dear E. I have been busy and tired; my walking and riding is becoming rather more laborious to me, for, though nobody here appears to do so, I am beginning to feel the relaxing influence of the spring.