Significados de immense pains em inglês

Accordingly I set at work on several models, and bestowed immense pains on them.

The Government has been at immense pains to improve the breed by introducing English and Arabian sires.

Mr. H. Shepstone, the Secretary for native affairs, took immense pains to keep things quiet among the various chiefs.

She threw back her veil entirely, sat very straight, and took immense pains to bow to every acquaintance whom she met.

With immense pains he rolled the biggest stones he could move to the passage, so that they were poised above the slope.

It had taken her a long time to do her hair and immense pains to satisfy herself that she looked nice,-forMartin.

She continued her ministrations; she brought coal in her own scuttle and after immense pains she lighted a fire in the wretched grate.

It has cost me immense pains to rear my English up to the mark; but I could never master the language to perfection.

I studied and copied her, I took immense pains not to be myself-oh!- itwas apoemthat no one but us women can understand!

Both she and Mr. Tart took immense pains with his clothes, and he would rather have been well valeted than eat luxurious luncheons every day.

He took immense pains to avoid the clash of "s" with "s," and to secure the predominance of open vowels when rhythm rendered them appropriate.