Plowing an entire field is quite toilsome, but even though it is hard work farmers have to do it all the time.

Movers and packers engage in the toilsome work of moving furniture out of your house, but they are paid fairly well to do all of that heavy lifting.

If you are an especially lazy individual, you will probably find any level of work toilsome, even though sweeping the front porch isn’t really all that difficult.

Sometimes mowing the lawn is easy, but if you have an especially large yard you might find that task a lot more toilsome.

The most toilsome job I can think of is pulling weeds out of the garden in the blazing hot afternoon sun of Georgia.