Passing the tangled apparition, she hopes to reach a remembered house, one she'd seen on warmer days when walking the beach wasn't so arduous: "my proto-dream-house / my crypto-dream-house, that crooked box / set up on pilings, shingled green" — "I'd like to retire there and do nothing".
Things weren't always so arduous.
Suddenly that eight-show-a-week schedule doesn't seem so arduous.
"Also, at the top end, the players get to pick and choose which tournaments they enter, which means the calender won't be so arduous for them".
Long plane rides wouldn't be so arduous with your lover sending you off with the ultimate bon voyage.
But on my regular afternoons off (Kibbutz work turned out not to be so arduous after I was sacked from the Banana fields) I visited local towns, and became particularly entranced with the old city of Akko, on the coast.
It is so arduous that many patients opt not to get treated or drop out before completing the course.
Not so with sanitation workers, though theirs is an arduous and potentially hazardous assignment, day in and day out.
The reason people don't register their dogs is not because the fee is high, but because the process is so arduous and there is no real enforcement.
It was close to the synagogue, and on a high enough floor, the fifth, to avoid some street noise, but not so high that eschewing the elevator on the Sabbath would be unbearably arduous.
