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  • No such vision could otherwise have entered into the prosaic drudgery of their lives, and it will be felt in their development into the third and fourth generation.†   (source)
  • War is thrilling; war is drudgery.†   (source)
  • There is talk of a new Sewing Machine for use in the home, which would do exceedingly well if it might be cheaply produced; for every woman would wish to own such an item, which would save many hours of monotonous toil and unceasing drudgery, and would also be of great assistance to the poor seamstresses.†   (source)
  • For a year and a half now, I'd been condemned to the drudgery of a maid.†   (source)
  • With a maid to handle the drudgery, I was free to concentrate on the nurturing tasks that provided me with so much pleasure.†   (source)
  • Although some of the men regarded the march as drudgery I never did.†   (source)
  • I dress quickly, hoping to get to her before Cook sets us to our daily drudgery.†   (source)
  • I am interested, however, that the doctor at the work farm added this statement: 'Don't overlook the possibility that this man might be feigning psychosis to escape the drudgery of the work farm.'†   (source)
  • Often Xavier had passed the boring hours by dreaming of how happy Lorie would be when he made his proposal, offering to free her from whoring and every form of drudgery.†   (source)
  • After a few hours of not seeing any sign of them, he relaxed into the drudgery of walking, walking and then more walking.†   (source)
  • His dead family, his dead friends, his squad mates, the drudgery of winter camp, the fights borne of boredom and fatigue and fear (but mostly fear), the rumors that when spring comes the Teds are launching a major offensive, a last-ditch effort to purge the world of the human noise, of which Razor is very much an active part.†   (source)
  • There's nothing like the sharp smell of formaldehyde or the depressing sheen of hospital-tiled halls to make the drudgery of chasing down dead leads seem like inspired work.†   (source)
  • They are also days filled with the anxiety and drudgery of being a young mother with your first baby.†   (source)
  • Police work was too often drudgery.†   (source)
  • I make a generous brokering fee and you're a wealthy man, free of care, of unpleasant drudgery.†   (source)
  • I am old, old, very old and never shall be very well—certainly while in this office, for the drudgery of it is too much for my years and strength.†   (source)
  • There are some who imagine that the work of a housemaid is the dullest of drudgery, but I have never found it so.†   (source)
  • As an investigator, for years she'd dealt with puzzles that presented her with literally millions of pieces and that were hugely more complex than virtually any homicide case to which any police detective was ever assigned, mysteries of human action and machine failure that were solved not with miracles but with drudgery.†   (source)
  • This was a day for adventure, not drudgery.†   (source)
  • You, who claim that you long to rise above the crude concerns of the body, above the drudgery of serving mere physical needs-who is enslaved by physical needs: the Hindu who labors from sunrise to sunset at the shafts of a hand-plow for a bowl of rice, or the American who is driving a tractor?†   (source)
  • Which is why I am distressed when I meet students who approach science and math with drudgery.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The difference between classes of men is that the vast majority remember youth as their glory, and the tiniest fraction, in escaping a life of drudgery and increasing difficulty, finds something even better.†   (source)
  • Another planter's son, a sergeant in the 16th Mississippi with two brothers in the same regiment, also detested the drudgery of an enlisted man's lot.†   (source)
  • All the basic labour-saving devices were in evidence: at least, Jean admitted, there was no danger of reverting to the dark ages of domestic drudgery.†   (source)
  • By contrast, I was still very much feeling my oats, in every sense of that expression, and had to bring a facetious attitude not only to the whole idea of the editorial side of book publishing, which my fatigued eyes now saw plainly as lusterless drudgery, but to the style, customs and artifacts of the business world itself.†   (source)
  • He brought his pay home on Saturday night, a few coins, sometimes maybe a full dollar for the week's work, and surrendered it to pay for his keep, and gradually he came to hate them and hate the drudgery.†   (source)
  • There was no trouble Kate would not take, no drudgery she was afraid of, and, in addition, she brought business.†   (source)
  • George was taken home, and put to the meanest drudgery of the farm.   (source)
  • He awoke in the morning with a sinking heart because he must go through another day of drudgery.   (source)
  • The unpleasantness, the work, the drudgery, it would fall on Thalia.†   (source)
  • 'Actually, I was spared that drudgery,' replied Wadsworth haughtily.†   (source)
  • If you looked at things in the cold light of day, I was indeed alone in the world, with no prospects before me except the drudgery I'd been doing; and although I could always find a different situation, still it would be the same sort of work, from dawn to dusk, with always a mistress to be ordering me about.†   (source)
  • The closest we come is weaving or smithing, but these things are skills, and there is no drudgery to them since all the parts that might be unpleasant are taken away with power.†   (source)
  • The walk of a strong, slow-witted man whose body had begun to show the effects of a lifetime of physical strain, whose mind accepted the daily inevitability of hard labor, reward found with a six-pack at the end of the drudgery.†   (source)
  • It was country far from the war, rich and peaceful country with trees and thick grass, no people and no villages and no lowland drudgery.†   (source)
  • The castrated performance of a sickening drudgery was held to be a woman's proper virtue-while that which gave it meaning and sanction was held as a shameful sin …. the work of dealing with grease, steam and slimy peelings in a reeking kitchen was held to be a spiritual matter, an act of compliance with her moral duty-while the meeting of two bodies in a bedroom was held to be a physical indulgence, an act of surrender to an animal instinct, with no glory, meaning or pride of spirit to…†   (source)
  • And yet I could hardly contain myself, able to broach such subjects after those many months of drudgery and routine and anxious inaction.†   (source)
  • A few old women, returning to their flats from all-night cleaning shifts in the city proper, trudged in and out of the bronze doors, holding railings and prayer books, devotions about to begin or finished with, precious sleep to follow before the drudgery of surviving the daylight hours.†   (source)
  • It was this instinctive projection that made Bourne include in his plea-calmly but firmly, the emphasis in understatement-such phrases as You could travel, disappear … a wealthy man, free of care and unpleasant drudgery.†   (source)
  • David held up his hand for a taxi, knowing that he had done so before, knowing the exit doors he had headed for after the prolonged drudgery of customs, knowing he knew the streets through which the driver took him — not really remembering, but somehow knowing.†   (source)
  • He did not look forward to the un challenging drudgery of work in the clinic, but I could tell that he already felt better.†   (source)
  • He would hire two others to do the drudgery and leave her as Mammy-in-chief.†   (source)
  • And this is the thanks I get for all my drudgery in my old age," she said, bursting into tears.†   (source)
  • One more cigarette and then we'll both return to the drudgery.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The drudgery of making a coherent life of Roger has once more become intolerable, and so I turn for a few day's respite to May 1895.†   (source)
  • …drunks, the yammer about "work" and "ideas" in smoke-blind rooms, the girls who staggered slightly and giggled indiscreetly on the dark stairs leading to the apartment) to go to some normal school on a sun-baked crossroads or a junior college long on Jesus and short on funds, to go to face the stark reality of drudgery and dry rot and prying eyes and the slow withering of the green wisp of dream which had, like some window plant in an invalid's room, grown out of a bottle.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The prevailing class one meets is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery; and yet are hardly fit for association with a southern gentleman's body servant.†   (source)
  • Mama surrendered powers to her that maybe she had never known she had and took her punishment in drudgery; occupied a place, I suppose, among women conquered by a superior force of love, like those women whom Zeus got the better of in animal form and who next had to take cover from his furious wife.†   (source)
  • Had Stella lived, the recollection makes me reflect, how different 'coming out' and those Greek slave years and all their drudgery and tyranny and rebellion would have been !†   (source)
  • The aim of the Low, when they have an aim — for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives — is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.†   (source)
  • He awoke in the morning with a sinking heart because he must go through another day of drudgery.†   (source)
  • He did the cooking for the other men in the fort, the dish-washing and the drudgery.†   (source)
  • Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.†   (source)
  • And I should never succeed in anything by dint of drudgery.†   (source)
  • Official work here was not the stiff, hopeless drudgery that it was in Moscow.†   (source)
  • Drudgery would have been nothing—Smike was well used to that.†   (source)
  • George was taken home, and put to the meanest drudgery of the farm.†   (source)
  • But the mere mention of his father in connection with all this—the assumption that he, of all people, might prove an escape from drudgery for them both, was a little too much.†   (source)
  • He made for her a picture of his work in a large tailor shop in Minneapolis: the steam and heat, and the drudgery; the men in darned vests and crumpled trousers, men who "rushed growlers of beer" and were cynical about women, who laughed at him and played jokes on him.†   (source)
  • But, though everybody was kind and ready to help us, there was only one hand that could turn drudgery into pleasure.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • ...the students themselves would be taught to see not only utility in labour, but beauty and dignity; would be taught, in fact, how to lift labour up from mere drudgery and toil, and would learn to love work for its own sake.†   (source)
  • There is a good deal of drudgery, of course; but one preserves one's moral freedom, what we call in French one's quant a soi.†   (source)
  • He had surprised her in her drudgery.†   (source)
  • For a year broken only by Terry Wickett's return after the Armistice, and by the mockeries of that rowdy intelligence, Martin was in a grind of drudgery.†   (source)
  • Forever asking to leave, pesters and badgers me and simply can't wait to live a life of drudgery down below.†   (source)
  • …they are good far nothing; but there are also men who are there because they are strongminded enough to disregard the social convention (obviously not a disinterested one on the part of the ratepayer) which bids a man live by heavy and badly paid drudgery when he has the alternative of walking into the workhouse, announcing himself as a destitute person, and legally compelling the Guardians to feed, clothe and house him better than he could feed, clothe and house himself without great…†   (source)
  • And now consider that in each of my little free communities there would be a machine which would wash and dry the dishes, and do it, not merely to the eye and the touch, but scientifically—sterilizing them—and do it at a saving of all the drudgery and nine-tenths of the time!†   (source)
  • Miss Pragg, the secretary, had been called away, and there would be notes and dinner-cards to write, lost addresses to hunt up, and other social drudgery to perform.†   (source)
  • It was no gossip, however, but fact, that though, as before hinted, Claggart upon his entrance into the navy was, as a novice, assigned to the least honourable section of a man-of-war's crew, embracing the drudgery, he did not long remain there.†   (source)
  • When Phillotson arrived upstairs, weary with the drudgery of the attendance-numbers, it was a quarter to twelve o'clock.†   (source)
  • His brain, which worked calmly and slowly—particularly since Hans Castorp retained the habit of drinking porter with his morning snack— gradually filled up with analytical geometry, differential equations, mechanics, projective geometry, and graphical statics, He calculated displacements—with full cargo and empty—stabilities, shifts in trim, and metacenters, though it was drudgery at times.†   (source)
  • She understood clearly enough that, even if she could ever learn to compete with hands formed from childhood for their special work, the small pay she received would not be a sufficient addition to her income to compensate her for such drudgery.†   (source)
  • The drudgery of the first two years is awful, and unfortunately I haven't got the scientific temperament.'†   (source)
  • Lily had no desire that they should recognize any social difference in her; but she had hoped to be received as their equal, and perhaps before long to show herself their superior by a special deftness of touch, and it was humiliating to find that, after two months of drudgery, she still betrayed her lack of early training.†   (source)
  • The life of Paris had got into his bones, and he would not change it, notwithstanding its squalor, drudgery, and hardship, for any other in the world.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He said he hoped Philip would like the work; there was a good deal of drudgery about it, but when you got used to it, it was interesting; and one made money, that was the chief thing, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • He was eager to pass it, since that ended the drudgery of the curriculum; after it was done with the student became an out-patients' clerk, and was brought in contact with men and women as well as with text-books.†   (source)
  • He was very anxious to pass, first to save himself time and expense, for money had been slipping through his fingers during the last four months with incredible speed; and then because this examination marked the end of the drudgery: after that the student had to do with medicine, midwifery, and surgery, the interest of which was more vivid than the anatomy and physiology with which he had been hitherto concerned.†   (source)
  • But these solemn lessons which succeeded those, I remember as the death-blow of my peace, and a grievous daily drudgery and misery.†   (source)
  • So now; but, in the days of which we are writing, for captivity there was drudgery on walls, and in the streets and mines, and the galleys both of war and commerce were insatiable.†   (source)
  • I glanced towards the centre of the room, where Miss Jellyby's lover, now engaged with single pupils, was undergoing greater drudgery than ever.†   (source)
  • The mischief lies in the deliberate suppression of the other side of the case: the refusal to allow Mrs Warren to expose the drudgery and repulsiveness of plying for hire among coarse, tedious drunkards; the determination not to let the Parisian girl in Brieux's Les Avaries come on the stage and drive into people's minds what her diseases mean for her and for themselves.†   (source)
  • But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness.†   (source)
  • Of course his easy domestic situation saved him a good deal of drudgery, and his wife's affiliation to the "best people" brought him a good many of those patients whose symptoms are, if not more interesting in themselves than those of the lower orders, at least more consistently displayed.†   (source)
  • I consider the people of the United States as that portion of the English people which is commissioned to explore the wilds of the New World; whilst the rest of the nation, enjoying more leisure and less harassed by the drudgery of life, may devote its energies to thought, and enlarge in all directions the empire of the mind.†   (source)
  • The toil, like all farm toil, is monotonous, and here there are little machinery and few tools to relieve its burdensome drudgery.†   (source)
  • Denisov then relieved him from drudgery and began taking him with him when he went out on expeditions and had him enrolled among the Cossacks.†   (source)
  • What drudgery!†   (source)
  • But their souls must be seen by only one man, and they obey not unwillingly, and consent to remain at home as our slaves—ministering to us and doing drudgery for us.†   (source)
  • Bleeding Heart Yard had been harrowed by Mr Pancks, and cropped by Mr Casby, at the regular seasons; Mr Pancks had taken all the drudgery and all the dirt of the business as his share; Mr Casby had taken all the profits, all the ethereal vapour, and all the moonshine, as his share; and, in the form of words which that benevolent beamer generally employed on Saturday evenings, when he twirled his fat thumbs after striking the week's balance, 'everything had been satisfactory to all…†   (source)
  • Then fetching from a cupboard a stoup of wine and two flagons, she placed them on the table, and said in a tone rather asserting a fact than asking a question, "Thou art Saxon, father—Deny it not," she continued, observing that Cedric hastened not to reply; "the sounds of my native language are sweet to mine ears, though seldom heard save from the tongues of the wretched and degraded serfs on whom the proud Normans impose the meanest drudgery of this dwelling.†   (source)
  • It was the day of the week on which Mr. Sharp went out to get his wig curled; so Mr. Mell, who always did the drudgery, whatever it was, kept school by himself.†   (source)
  • She had, it is true, quailed at the prospect of drudgery and hard service; but she had felt no degradation in working for her bread, until she found herself exposed to insolence and pride.†   (source)
  • But I have a very good ear, and I am used to drudgery—I have to thank Ma for that, at all events— and where there's a will there's a way, you know, Esther, the world over."†   (source)
  • It should never fall into something usual and settled, but should be alert and inventive, and add rhyme and reason to what was drudgery.†   (source)
  • And so fell George's last hope;—nothing before him but a life of toil and drudgery, rendered more bitter by every little smarting vexation and indignity which tyrannical ingenuity could devise.†   (source)
  • 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…†   (source)
  • That my health was much impaired, by the continual drudgery of entertaining the rabble every hour of the day; and that, if my master had not thought my life in danger, her majesty would not have got so cheap a bargain.†   (source)
  • But in this I was mistaken; for he never took me with him, but left me to look after his little garden, and do the drudgery of his house, and when he returned from sea, would make, me lie in the cabin, and look after the ship.†   (source)
  • He said, too, that to go on, mind, hand, pen always restricted to writing upon one single subject, and speaking through the mouths of a few characters, was intolerable drudgery, the result of which was never equal to the author's labour, and that to avoid this he had in the First Part availed himself of the device of novels, like "The Ill-advised Curiosity," and "The Captive Captain," which stand, as it were, apart from the story; the others are given there being incidents which…†   (source)
  • …a new whim possessed these rogues about three quarters of a year after, which had like to have ruined us, and themselves too: for it seems, being tired and weary of this sort of living, which made them work for themselves, without hopes of changing their condition, nothing would serve them, but that they would make a voyage to the continent, and try if they could seize upon some of the savages, and bring them over as slaves, to do their drudgery, while they lived at ease and pleasure.†   (source)
  • …animals we had; that they excelled in strength and swiftness; and when they belonged to persons of quality, were employed in travelling, racing, or drawing chariots; they were treated with much kindness and care, till they fell into diseases, or became foundered in the feet; but then they were sold, and used to all kind of drudgery till they died; after which their skins were stripped, and sold for what they were worth, and their bodies left to be devoured by dogs and birds of prey.†   (source)
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