Meanings of manual toil in English

Thus he was more inclined for manual toil like that of Thomas.

Thinking and manual toil are not meant to go together.

O manual toil, happier than any agricultural task!

I do not, cannot see, why manual toil and self-improvement may not go on in friendly union.

Machinery saves manual toil, and multiplies force.

The Indian women were drudges; they carried the burdens, and did the rude manual toil of the tribe.

Eastward and northward was the city of manual toil, with the rumbling and the smoke of its factories.

They had worked for their meals and passage-hard, manual toil-butit had seemed only play to them both.

Toil, manual toil, panting at every effort, this was what Pierre and Thomas once more found at the works.

It is, then, no part of the philanthropy which would elevate the laboring body, to exempt them from manual toil.

The monks spent part of each day in manual toil, for they held that "to labor is to pray."

She stroked his hand, that was worn and rough, and spoke eloquently of manual toil it had accomplished in the past.

And when she spoke of manual toil, it was no wild, unmeaning exaggeration born of sorrow and a passing flash of courage.

Knowledge, therefore, is not attained, and cannot be attained, till there is some degree of respite from daily manual toil and never-ending drudgery.

It is, however, all done by the men, the women, contrary to the habits of most savage races, being entirely exempt from manual toil.

Take away this system of credit, and then tell me what is left for labor and industry, but mere manual toil and daily drudgery?