Usage examples for labouring:

• Botallack, in which all his savings had been invested, continued steadily to improve, and from the income derived from this source alone he was enabled to live without labouring "Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines" – R.M. Ballantyne

• Grey was arranging his forces, and labouring to reduce the Irish children, who formed almost half his ragged little flock, into something like order, before starting. "Tom Brown at Oxford" – Thomas Hughes

• In our country the most common labouring man would revolt at the idea of his wife or daughter working in the open fields. "Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2" – John Lloyd Stephens

• They're only labouring to stay in the same place. "Gone to Earth" – Mary Webb