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drudgery
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    There would be no more endless drudgery, and she could snap her fingers at a woman like Goodwife Cruff.†  (source)
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    I try to avoid the drudgery of housekeeping chores, which is more up Rachel's alley if she can stoop to being helpful on a given day.†  (source)
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    War is thrilling; war is drudgery.†  (source)
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    He would hire two others to do the drudgery and leave her as Mammy-in-chief.†  (source)
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    The house was still a terrible mess, and because I felt there was so much improving to do, it was clear I shouldn't include my daughter in the mundane drudgeries.†  (source)
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    From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared.†  (source)
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    Even if these purely official catastrophes carried any conviction, the majority of English girls remain so poor, so dependent, so well aware that the drudgeries of such honest work as is within their reach are likely enough to lead them eventually to lung disease, premature death, and domestic desertion or brutality, that they would still see reason to prefer the primrose path to the strait path of virtue, since both, vice at worst and virtue at best, lead to the same end in poverty and overwork.†  (source)
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    IN 1951, after years of this drudgery, it was Nakamura-san's good luck, her fate (which must be accepted), to become eligible to move into a better house.†  (source)
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    The drudgeries that do on occasion precede death can hardly be credited to him, since they just prove that someone is alive and kicking and may lead back to life and health.†  (source)
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    What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth.†  (source)
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    Its very drudgeries had a charm now that she was involuntarily released from them: card-leaving, note-writing, enforced civilities to the dull and elderly, and the smiling endurance of tedious dinners—how pleasantly such obligations would have filled the emptiness of her days!†  (source)
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    I make a generous brokering fee and you're a wealthy man, free of care, of unpleasant drudgery.†  (source)
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    For a year and a half now, I'd been condemned to the drudgery of a maid.†  (source)
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