Sentence examples for he was toiling from inspiring English sources
And, like Shelley, he was "toiling to leave a memory behind".
A City College graduate, he was toiling in New York's Tenement House Department when he quixotically set his sights on Harvard Law School.
Word was he was toiling on a revolutionary new fiscal plan, which would balance the budget by 2023, but that can't have been right.
Last week, he was toiling under a hot sun in El Salvador, tilling fields for tomato plants and clearing weeds around small papaya trees.
Ghulam Jelani, 48, the owner of a bakery no more than 100 yards from the attack, said he was toiling in his kitchen when the bomber struck.
Though we see the work of Aristophanes less frequently nowadays, he was toiling away too, writing bawdy, irreverent comedies with overtly political themes.
When others are sleeping, Blake says, he is toiling.
What is obvious is that he is toiling — for us!
Right now, he is toiling to disprove those who claim his days of ruling the roost are over.
I've seen what he does with scripts when he's toiling over them.
Bruno Dumont's L'humanité opens with a widescreen shot of a horizon, bare but for a couple of trees; a man appears on the extreme left, and you realise with a sinking feeling the camera is going to stick with him till he's toiled all the way over to the right.
