Sentence examples for he labored on from inspiring English sources

For the 12 days he labored on Kinstone in Wisconsin, Mr. McBeth requested $2,000.

He labored on road crews and construction sites until they went away.

For two and a half years, he labored on a script.

He labored on it all weekend and every night after work, by the light of a single bulb powered by the generator, she said.

For some fifteen years, he labored on this work, resisting the urgings of his friends to complete it and make it public.

A near drowning while he labored on the Erie and Ohio Canal convinced him that God "had saved me for my mother and for something greater and better than canalling," he wrote.

At the event, he was reported to have "labored on," while "braving" the hot summer weather, giving way to a torrent of chatter that some mystery ailment had befallen Dear Leader.

Now well past the age when Verdi wrote "Falstaff," he labors on with his own new "Falstaff," a work that served for his triumphant Met debut in 1964 — and that wasn't even his first outing with the opera.

He labored for several years on "Sita," a long opera based on the Hindu epic the Ramayana, but the clotted result was, essentially, Wagner goes to India, and the work was never performed.

He also labored on a novel, "Watt," which he'd begun the previous year, in Paris, and which, he said, provided him "a means of staying sane".

Once he is ensconced in Leisureland, something curious happens — gratifying to fans of Payne's earlier films, such as "Election" (1999) and "The Descendants" (2011), yet disappointing, in the light of the fantastical setup that he has labored, on this occasion, to construct.