They are an interpretation of religious facts the human mind has acquired by laborious effort.

One or two were making the customary laborious effort to rise when Van Effen mounted the steps.

It was also a laborious effort to peck out notes on its tiny keyboard.

He gets them out only with laborious effort, having exhausted the better part of his lunacy in the play's earlier stretches.

She took her thermo-beamer and dragged herself up to the ledge with a laborious effort.

They stopped at a supermarket, still half flooded, glass windows scraped of mud by laborious effort.

He'd had one lovely, fluky success, but laborious effort had failed to produce anything further.

One could almost see the laborious effort of thinking going on inside that thick skull.

By the last years of his life, simple tasks such as handwriting required laborious effort.

For his sake, indeed, I was made welcome; and for mine the conversation rolled a while with laborious effort on the virtues of the deceased.