For eighteen centuries she has been gradually but slowly rising from the condition of drudge and servant for man, to become his helpmeet, counselor and companion.
A drudge and dependent in some middle-class family perhaps--tyrannised over and tormented by a brood of vulgar children.
I would my eyes had the power of the sun to blind his, then," said Margaret, "to teach the drudge his place.
But he held that there should be no artificial barriers to the rise of an individual born to the drudge class who showed an accidental capacity for independent reasoning.
He regarded the drudge class, which is obviously unable to think for itself, as unworthy of consideration.
When it is at the Fire, baste it well with Butter, and drudge it with sifted Raspings of Bread.
Baste it well when it is before the Fire, anddrudge it frequently with the above Mixture till it is enough.
Now this would all be over, and she would be driven again to beg him to send her away, that she might become a household drudge elsewhere.
What would the neighbours say of me if we kept you at home to drudge for us, instead of settling you out in the world properly?
Here am I worried to death for money, and have to drudge as old Van Heldre's clerk.
There are not many ladies in her position who would have cared what became of a drudge like me.
And for my sake he is to forego all that, and to drudge as a tutor in a Cornish village.
Besides being a drudge the peasant woman is nearly always a slave to her husband.
I have existed after a fashion and learned that if I skimp and drudge and save for twenty years I can then begin to do the things I wish to do.
If only he could return to that little office anddrudge for her unceasingly--toil and hack and hew at stubborn fortune merely in the consciousness that she was somewhere in the world, that would be freedom.
He took his pipe from his lips and stared at the back of the drudge near him.
She made almost frantic efforts to include the tired drudge in the summer frivolities; her sweet compassion and delicate prettiness were in terrific contrast to Jo's shabbiness and lack of charm.
Laborious drudgery; the acting as a drudge for another at a college or school.
Twice a day I exchanged a word or two with the overworked drudge of a servant in the house where I lived; but I had no other voice to speak to me.
The door was scarcely closed upon her when I rang, and asked the slatternly drudge of a servant if I could see Mr. Foster.
As some rich woman, on a winter's morn, Eyes through her silken curtains the poor drudge Who with numb, blacken'd fingers makes her fire .
And wonders how she lives, and what the thoughts Of that poor drudge may be, so of James when he attempts to portray the great mass of his countrymen.
Haredale had been Sir John's drudge and scapegoat at school and the latter had always despised him.
Again I saw a wan domestic drudge Scuttering across a smug suburban lawn; Tired with the nightly watch, the morning trudge, The toil at early dawn.
Once a muse, now a servile drudge 'twixt man and man.
Christian mysteries are debased in the streets to the sound of drum and trumpet, and the sensitive ear of the telephone is but a servile drudge 'twixt speculative bacon merchants.
