"Arduous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... He realized more than any one else what such a war would mean. When others thought of it as an adventure to be soon concluded, he recognized that there would be years of bitter conflict. He asked England to give up its cherished tradition of a volunteer army; to go through arduous military training; he saw the danger to the Empire, and he alone, perhaps, had the authority to inspire his countrymen with the will to sacrifice. But his work was done. The great British army was ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish
... it. He was afraid she would 'overdo' herself, and rather than that should happen he desired her to let the business go to the—ahem! He made her write every day to say how she was, and was wretched till he returned to relieve her of her arduous duties. She made friends with me during the scarlet fever epidemic. Number eight was a baby then, and she was afraid he might catch the disease and be taken to the hospital and die for want of her; and I sympathised strongly with her denunciations of the cruelty of the act. Fancy taking little ...
— Ideala • Sarah Grand
... this scheme. Determined that something should be done, French then entered into contracts with the Railroad Company for the supply of ties. But though he and Mackenzie took a large force into the woods, and spent their three months in arduous toil, when the traders and the whiskey runners had taken their full toll little was left for the ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor
... (n.) algo, something, anything (interrog.) amenaza, threat anticipacion, anticipation anticipar, to anticipate anticipo, advance arduo, arduous, difficult baja, decline bajo cubierta, underdeck botones, buttons callar, to be silent, to abstain from saying camaradas, comrades cepillo, brush cinta, ribbon cortarse, to cut oneself, to stop short damascos, damasks definitivo, definite descuidar, to ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... yourself drunk about bedtime, you just take a good shampoo, and you'll find the investment will pay a big dividend in the morning. But walk into the saloon, gentlemen; walk in. The girls are in there taking a rest and a smoke, after the arduous duties of the evening. ...
— The Secrets Of The Great City • Edward Winslow Martin
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