Read full poem →Some laboring-men, whose work lay somewhere there,
Passed opposite; she touched her girl, who hied
Dictionary Entry
The act of one who labors; toil; work done.
Origin
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Common Phrases
classes laboringunder laboringclass laboringman laboringmen laboringpeople laboring
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Poetry examples for “laboring”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →On either side the black deep-furrowed path
Cut by an onward-laboring vessel’s prore,
And never touches the ship-side again;
Read full poem →And these all, laboring for a lord,
Eat not the fruit of their own hands;
Read full poem →health, he soon left the meeting house, and did not re-
turn until Monday, the 21st. He was laboring under
his paralytic affection, and was otherwise very feeble :
Read full poem →that were with me. I have showed you all things, how
that so laboring ye ought to support the weak; and to
remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, it
Read full poem →All, all the shows of laboring life,
City and country, women’s, men’s and children’s,
Read full poem →Some in tents—herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horsemen,
Some prowling through woods—Some living peaceably on farms, laboring, reaping,
filling
Read full poem →While every gasp with sobs he drew,
The laboring stag strained full in view.
Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed,
Read full poem →Dashed from his eye the gathering tear,
Breathed deep to clear his laboring breast,
And tossed aloft his bonnet crest,