0 present participle of toil --
1 to work hard: --
2 to move in a particular direction, slowly and with great effort: --
Twenty-five thousand men toiling for a year have wasted their labour.
One thinks of the hours spent toiling away with difficult bandas and obstinate cyclostyle machines preparing papers or notes for classes.
My committee will be particularly interested in the references to me toiling with a shovel.
It will come from the labour of the toiling masses.
We want to have some satisfaction and knowledge that it is going to bring great advantage to the toiling masses of the nation.
We sometimes denounce these men, but society has taught them that they can get money there without toiling—society has denied them the right to toil.
I have been in active political life for 40 years, and my only object has been to improve the lot of the toiling millions.
What was not to be done for the miners toiling in the bowels of the earth below the level of the sea?
