Henry was excited by the possibilities for the future that were being opened up by developments in technology that could free farmers like his father from wasteful and boring toil.
Up and down they go, endlessly, and endless as their toil rises their rhythmic cry.
Whilst the prince was settling down to this second year of toil and privation, the ship made a rapid voyage and arrived safely at the Ebony Island.
So I begged the one who owned the nest to which I had been carried to take as much as he would of my treasure, but he contented himself with one stone, and that by no means the largest, assuring me that with such a gem his fortune was made, and he need toil no more.
I have only reached this happy state after having for years suffered every possible kind of toil and danger.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil.
While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat, and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.
" It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the profit.
"Have you been obliged to toil in this way from your childhood?
She is born in the vast factory of the present, where steam sets in action its power, and where Master Bloodless and his crew toil night and day.
' They toil and tug away with their goods and chattels, and the household goblin sits in an old tub and moves with them.
Then their father told them that in the world there was nothing but toil and difficulty: that it was not quite what it appeared to them, as they looked upon it in their beautiful home.