Toiled

Defending champion Roger Federer, sheltered from soaring day one temperatures at the French Open, watched as two contenders to his title toiled in the Roland Garros sweatshop. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More an open-book into history; than an enjoyable journey, Phillip Noyce’s thought-provoking, and ultimately distressing “Rabbit-Proof Fence” is the inspired re-telling of three aboriginal children forced from their homes and strained into camps without their mothers in toiled times of 1931 Australia. ❋ Unknown (2002)

In it he laid the trap with the same gentleness of handling, locked the chain round one of the trees, and finally slid back the guard which was placed to keep the gin from accidentally catching the arms of him who set it, or, to use the local and better word, "toiled" it. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

Let's preserve the timber tree, that has 'toiled' for us for centuries!

The artist said he "toiled" with the image for several months. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Especially if you've kind of toiled for a while, you're very aware of how quickly everything can be taken away. " ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although it's doubtful he would have chosen to do so, he could have wandered down the road to see the slave cabins still standing today on the land where his grandfather Jim Robinson once toiled. ❋ Megan Smolenyak (2012)

I fantasized that they had toiled away in their garrets, crafting their stories just for me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I toiled at two month-long writers' colonies out in California trying to write this novel. ❋ Claudia Ricci (2011)

Marcus and Amani Pollard's $1 million hopes on The Amazing Race finale ended almost as soon as the leg began in their Atlanta hometown when the former Indianapolis Colts tight end toiled at the first task of landing a simulated aircraft. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Bryant Gumbel was plucked from NBC Sports, while Lauer toiled on lightweight local talk shows. ❋ Unknown (2011)

LT Quinn Barham — The redshirt junior quietly toiled as a backup center and guard during his first three seasons at Penn State but leaves the spring as the front-runner to replace Dennis Landolt at left tackle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That has left Mr. King, who is chairman of the homeland security committee, as an important ally for Mr. Bloomberg on issues like getting federal money to fund health care for sick workers who toiled at Ground Zero as well as winning more money to fortify the city against terrorism. ❋ Andrew Grossman (2011)

A thousand workers, many under 13, toiled 72 hours a week inside this two-acre flax mill. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Three-quarters of company founders toiled for someone else for at least six years before launching their own firms, according to a survey this summer by the entrepreneur-focused Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps if its 325 staff members all toiled overseas or hunkered down in some creaky offices downtown, it wouldn't have become so exposed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mr. Kriemler is the grandson of Akris's founders, and he has toiled at the family-owned Swiss company for more than 20 years. ❋ Christina Binkley (2011)

For nearly a decade the Farrellys have toiled to make a Three Stooges film. ❋ John Jurgensen (2011)