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c1487 J. Skelton in tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica Interpretatio 3 Whiche vnto hym extended be of my liberal & fre wyll, by me laboriously studyed.

?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. d.vi They that..in the space of this temporall deth laboriously purchase them selfe eternall deth.

1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries To Rdr. sig. A.4^v To exercise thy witte in proofe of such occasions, as shall enforce thee to seeke diligentlie and laboriously, for sound reasons.

?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads Pref. sig. A 4 There is a certaine enuious Windfucker, that houers vp and downe, laboriously ingrossing al the air with his luxurious ambition.

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall viii. 65 The Experiment was laboriously try'd.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 597 I chuse laboriously to bear A weight of woes.

1769 J. Priestley Considerations on Church-authority vi. 87 How can the spectators refrain from laughing to see them so laboriously employed.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. i. 12 Never was there a Monarch who employed his pen so laboriously.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvii. 180 The laboriously-earned results of the expedition.

1883 J. Hawthorne in Harper's Mag. Nov. 934/2 The..beams of the..ceiling..were laboriously carved.

1931 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 166/1 Edith was laboriously reading to Tillie, faking out the words she didn't know.

1970 Guardian 17 June 13/6 He would help me dress him in his night things, laboriously doing up every popper and zip.

1982 T. A. Shippey Road to Middle-Earth vii. 174 He explains laboriously that Gandalf forced Bilbo on Thorin..because he thought Bilbo had the right ‘mix’ of Took and Baggins.

2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) iii. 126 The northeast part of the island had been burned and laboriously converted to garden patches where crops could be planted in natural pockets of soil.