As gratifying to the co-op as the refinancing is, however, it came only after an arduous nine-month search and many rejections by lending institutions.

It was an arduous search, but eventually she came to the hidden castle of the Elderlings, a vast hall built all of black and silver stone.

After a long and arduous search, Wim finds ultimate truth (in a tomato), and with it the cure for the sickness of the human condition.

I am an adoptee, who though a very arduous, emotional and expensive search found my birth family.

She knew who would get all the credit for the arduous search, and its brilliantly successful conclusion.

And inevitably this controversy has shadowed the museum's arduous search for financing.

Fran Fraschilla, who recruited him, left, and Jarvis arrived after an arduous search.

After a long and arduous search that tests his personal strength and virtue, Rama fights a colossal war against Ravana's armies.

The long and arduous search throughout the house had not improved either his temper or his personal appearance.

They could have begun an arduous search for an impressive outsider, though experience suggested that any recruit might come with one eye on the exit.