Fiction cannot deal with the humble materials that make up such an existence,-the long hours of watching by sickness; the weary care of teaching the young; the trying disappointments to hope bravely met by fresh efforts; the cheery encouragement drawn from a heart exhausting itself to supply others.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
The head of Flagler Bay was reached late at night, after an exhausting march of twenty-five miles.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Such a journey as now confronted us is a long-continued, hard, difficult, sordid, body-exhausting thing.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook