Pronunciation of the English word labours.
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1. | I'm patching things up for your mistake so it's only natural that I get a reward appropriate to my labours. | |
2. | What an unfailing barrier against vice, immorality and bad habits are those tastes which lead us to embellish a home, to which at all times and in all places we turn with delight, as being the object and the scene of our fondest cares, labours and enjoyments; whose humble roof, whose shady porch, whose verdant lawn and smiling flowers all breathe forth to us, in true, earnest tones, a domestic feeling that at once purifies the heart and binds us more closely to our fellow beings. | |
3. | They threw up over his grave a large pile of earth, round which they planted several trees, and upon these they hung the first-fruits of their autumnal labours. Then they poured upon the grave libations of milk and juice pressed from the grapes, and broke many pastoral pipes. | |
4. | Daphnis and Chloe neglected their flocks for a time to share in the labours of the vintage. | |
5. | Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. | |
6. | For while, the queen awaiting, round he gazed, / and marvelled at he happy town, and scanned / the rival labours of each craftman's hand, / behold, Troy's battles on the walls appear, / the war, since noised through many a distant land, / there Priam and th' Atridae twain, and here / Achilles, fierce to both, still ruthless and severe. | |
7. | Pensive he stood, and with a rising tear, / "What lands, Achates, on the earth, but know / our labours?" | |
8. | And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house. | |
9. | And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son. And he called his name Noah, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord hath cursed. | |
10. | The day has reached its end. Thanks to your timely efforts, people who intended to help you in your labours managed not to throw themselves into danger. In the theater, the masks are rehearsing a new pantomime. |