Worthy or not,' hissed Nevian, 'many have paid a high price and laboured hard that you might kneel before Holbian.

He had a very good eye for publicity and laboured hard behind the scenes to get it.

I'd laboured long and hard over the message, and gone through several drafts, before coming up with the eloquent and emotive; 'To Alice, my newest, bestest (sp.

He arrived at Kilkenny in August, and for the next nine years he laboured hard for the spiritual interests of his diocese.

Dov was labouring hard, the barbs of the javelin still fixed in her skin, and the shaft banging her legs at each stride.

I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful.

Tenaka urged his horse onward, but with double weight upon him the creature was labouring hard.

He pretended to be labouring hard, stumbling often, and now and then throwing himself on the heather in an attitude of utter fatigue, which was visible to the pursuit below.

For twenty years Tycho laboured hard at Uraniborg in the pursuit of science.

Labouring hard, he pushed it into the opened hatch and gave it one last shove.