Drudgery

Having enough to live on, he has not been forced to work for bread; he has declined to subject himself to what he calls the drudgery of the profession, by which, I believe, he means the general work of a practising surgeon; and has found other employment. ❋ Unknown (2004)

For these people, a management role which involves administrative drudgery is both a refuge, and a means for advancing one's career to a higher salary scale. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)

How much drudgery is involved in putting a centerpiece on the dining table? ❋ Unknown (2008)

How much drudgery is involved in making a sandwich and a pot of tea? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The “AI” approach is so positive it makes the other methods seem to wallow in drudgery of the problems. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Here in the Eastern Conference final, where half-court drudgery is dictated by a Detroit Pistons outfit that wants no part of sleek showmanship, NBA basketball becomes less an art than a painstaking process both to play and watch. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Therefore, I maintain that capacity for work, and even drudgery, is among the essentials of story-telling. ❋ Unknown (1915)

I am ready to run mad over the mathematics! which I have just begun & wish I had just concluded — all your drudgery is over. ❋ Unknown (1792)

You’re never more aware of how much drudgery is involved in the work of mothering than when you’re doing that work while suffering from a bad cold or flu or some such viral misery as makes your head pound and your lungs ache and your throat burn. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The whole nation repels the idea of drudgery of any sort, and the most conscientious teacher has to contend against a home influence, which, working at right angles with her own, hardly allows any noble effort. ❋ Anna Callender Brackett (N/A)

When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery, all the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. ❋ Maisie Ward (1932)

The extreme form of this subordination, namely drudgery, offers a clew. ❋ Unknown (1916)

They should involve effort and self-sacrifice; and also some drudgery, which is worse. ❋ Evelyn Underhill (1908)

There were only a few girls there, if any, who were doing work which might be called drudgery except myself. ❋ Unknown (1902)

The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum ❋ William Alexander Clouston (1869)

It is remarkable that the business of cooking the food, which, in houses and cities, is considered a disagreeable drudgery, which is to be kept as much as possible out of sight, is always in the woods a very important part of the entertainment, in which all the guests are pleased to take a share. ❋ Jacob Abbott (1841)