What is "drudging"

Usage examples of "drudging".

It had surprised him to be first, considering that her adolescent years had been spent drudging for lascivious warders and soldier types.

Though she had an ample staff of serving women, she had appropriated Cozcatl as well, and had kept him drudging for her, or running at a trot, or standing still to be whipped, all the while I had been away.

Nevertheless, if it has been in the least informative to our Sovereign, or to any extent edifying in its plethora of bizarre minutiae and arcana, we will try to persuade ourself that our patience and forbearance and the drudging labors of our friar scribes have not entirely been a waste.

They're like servants drudging to keep the house going, and believing the drudgery itself is the great thing.

Johnson at Hampstead, that she indulged herself in country air and nice living, at an unsuitable expense, while her husband was drudging in the smoke of London, and that she by no means treated him with that complacency which is the most engaging quality in a wife.

Though seemingly a model of decorum and devoted to his art, he complains of his “daily drudging round” and “the cramped monotony of his existence.

We will return, in a moment, to this part of the story, and to Darwin's drudging and dutiful accumulation of evidence for a conception that was in the main already known in advance.

Through it all-the early scenes of man's frustrations and drudging labor, the spectacular fireworks and sound effects of the great war which climaxed the third act, the final scenes which depicted man's building of a new world under- 84 ground and the gradual emergence of his dream of freedom from something unattainable to an immediate goal-Hend-ley's attention kept going back to the line of showgirls ringing the stage, specifically searching for the one who had seemed so familiar.

I am allow'd that much usefulness, the rest being but Drudging Captivity.

Just as they had seen and taped the sunny views of the city, Krebs and her cameraman had recorded the lives of the poor and the homeless, the adults drudging in a bit of soil or nodding in a patch of shade, the children, their thin faces hungry for food or money, surrounding the strangers and their shiny vehicles with their grimy hands outstretched.

The major problem of our time is the decay of the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police.