most sad, To this dry drudgery of the desk's dead wood?

In solemn croak Thus one his hungry friend bespoke: 'Methinks I scent some rich repast; The savour strengthens with the blast; Snuff then, the promised feast inhale; I taste the carcase in the gale; 80 Near yonder trees, the farmer's steed, From toil and daily drudgery freed, Hath groaned his last.

Those who have to support themselves by their pen must depend on literary drudgery, or at best on writings addressed to the multitude; and can employ in the pursuits of their own choice, only such time as they can spare from those of necessity; which is generally less than the leisure allowed by office occupations, while the effect on the mind is far more enervating and fatiguing.

He had no method in his business, and detested mechanical drudgery.

It is because mothers, almost universally, consider their occupations as mere drudgery, and bring up their children in the same spirit.

230 And all their painful drudgeries repay With disappointment and severe remorse.

Publick spirit, where it is to be found, is the result of reflection, refined by study and exalted by education, and is not to be hoped for among those whom low fortune has condemned to perpetual drudgery.

At Harrow, Byron proved himself capable of violent fits of work, but of "few continuous drudgeries."

Was he to wear his life out in useless drudgery?

Domestic drudgery had not yet dehumanized nor disfigured herit is true that her hands were concealed in gloves, and her feet beneath a flowing skirt.

The injured lady supports her child by mean drudgery until by chance she meets Emilius and his wife, who do all they can to comfort her.

The simplest tasks may become of intense interest to the scientist and he may achieve great success in a work that to others seems monotonous drudgery.

Not as the driver, for that would be vulgar drudgery, beneath a gentleman, but as a nabob in state, ordering his understrappers.

But the insolence of his mistress, who employed him in servile drudgery, quickly disgusted him, and he went up to London in quest of more suitable employment.

If reading is delayed, hours of weary drudgery will be saved and energy stored for more precious attainments.

He asked how it happened, that sugar could be imported cheaper from the East Indies than from the West, notwithstanding the vast difference of the length of the voyages, but on account of the impolicy of slavery; or that it was made in the former case by the industry of free men, and in the latter by the languid drudgery of slaves.

We have seen men methodically pursuing, day after day, the same exercises, with all the listless drudgery of a hack-horse.

It offers you no honest way, only a miserable drudgery.

Agnes revelled in all this, and found great happiness in the daily routine, in spite of much which was, perhaps, somewhat needless drudgery, such as sweeping and dusting her room, washing up after meals, and even black-leading stoves.

Perpetual, highly organised, scientific drudgery is three parts of war, it seems, as men now wage it.

I stubbornly refused to yield altogether to a time-honored code, which required women to perform outdoor drudgery, often while men sat in the house, and soon had the sympathy of our own boys; for it was often impossible to obtain any domestic help, though Pittsburg "charitable" people supported hundreds of women in idleness who might have had homes and wages in farmhouses.

And, having married a lady with some fortune, he had sufficient means to live without professional drudgery.

Little could John Adams have divined his own future influence and fame when, as a boy on his father's farm in Braintree, he toiled in rural and commonplace drudgeries, or when he was an undistinguished student at Harvard or a schoolmaster in a country village.

Here he proposed to instruct his pupils in the complete science of philosophy in the short space of three years, and, for that purpose, drew up a great number of books upon logic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, metaphysics, geography, astronomy, &c. &c., till, as it is said, literally worn out with scholastic drudgery, he died at the early age of 38.]

Perpetual, highly organised, scientific drudgery is three parts of war, it seems, as men now wage it.