compensatory time

Examples of toil

toil
The father leaves to his son an inheritance of toil and misery _ with no hope or possibility of anything better.
It is the very simplicity of the illusory sequence, the shorthand summary that circumvents all the poor magician's toil, which makes the trick so compelling.
Until the twentieth century it had to be built and tended by hand with much labour, and still it carries the marks of that toil.
For their part, the women are probably happy enough to be relieved of what (despite its romantic possibilities) is such arduous, unpleasant and low-status toil.
They toiled mightily, and found it difficult and said at the end.
Is this tale of toil and storm any concern of yours?
Man will not achieve rest except by much toil.
To acquire shells, "what toils and pains," she exclaims, "what hopes and fears, what enterprises and calculations have been undertaken and undergone" (110)!
The former is clearly limited, but yields the fruit of honest toil.
They rejected, in fact, the concept of work as toil, effort, necessary means, punishment, or duty.
If there were no demand for such works of reference, publishers and compilers would not engage in the awful toil of producing them.
He had a driving ambition to succeed combined with a puritan's belief in the sanctity of unremitting toil.
The blacksmith's son's forearms would bulge with pride on account of the blacksmith's toil.
Fortunately for users, intermediate levels of representation, such as machine code, assembly language, and highlevel languages, keep us from toiling with 1s and 0s.
In each generation, with toil and tears, we have had to earn our heritage again.
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