We who had labored so to save it! "Land of the Burnt Thigh" by Edith Eudora Kohl

An anxious half hour passed, during which the child lay quiet, except for its labored breathing. "The Marrow of Tradition" by Charles W. Chesnutt

Without losing patience, they once more went to work, and, after having labored for three hours and a half, they at last had the pleasure of seeing their dried wing safely pulled into their store- room. "Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy" by Frank Richard Stockton