Etymology
Origin of toilworn
Example Sentences
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After allowing the national parliament to wrangle all week long over the merits of various plans to renovate the economy, the Soviet President decided he had heard enough debate from the toilworn legislators.
From Time Magazine Archive
He paints anything that catches his eye�huge Western bridges, gritty red-light districts, stolid water buffaloes, dead chickens, his friends, his toilworn mother.
From Time Magazine Archive
Corot saw the same poor, toilworn peasants, and he helped them most generously when they asked him, but as for painting them—he did not think of it.
From Stories Pictures Tell Book Four by Carpenter, Flora L.
His bony fingers tightened over his wife’s toilworn hand.
From The Dark Star by Stevens, William Dodge
Hitherto his life had been poor and toilworn; but otherwise not ungenial, and, with all its distresses, by no means unhappy.
From Life of Robert Burns by Carlyle, Thomas
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