"We acted," Crawshay explained, with studied laboriousness,-"my friends and I acted, that is to say-upon inconclusive information.
"The Box with the Broken Seals"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Burke had the style of his subjects, the amplitude, the weightiness, the laboriousness, the sense, the high flight, the grandeur, proper to a man dealing with imperial themes, the freedom of nations, the justice of rulers, the fortunes of great societies, the sacredness of law.
"Burke"
John Morley
If the whole aim of appreciative criticism is to reproduce in other arrangement the contents, expressed and implied, and the emotional value, original and derived, of a piece of literature, the value of the end, at least to the intelligent reader, is out of all proportion to the laboriousness of the means.
"The Psychology of Beauty"
Ethel D. Puffer