But how many of us realize all the long years of drudgery that have given the skill we appreciated, the devotion to her work that has made the British nurse what she is?
In the long vista of future years she saw nothing but dreary drudgery at her detested old trade without prospect of reward.
Maumbry paused for a moment to wipe his face, and resumed his homely drudgery amid this squalid and reeking scene, pressing down and stirring the contents of the copper with what looked like an old rolling-pin.
His chief concern then was the cultivation of the minds in order to make amends for the drudgery to their bodies.
Verily one would think that honorable senators supposed themselves deputed to do our thinking as well as our legislation, or rather, that they themselves were absolved from such drudgery by virtue of their office!
That's right, stick to it, and after a while we'll hand the drudgery over to somebody else.
Before two days had passed he had fled from it in horror back to his crowded cottage and his drudgery in the fields.
That drudgery and despair should be replaced by interest and hope," he went on, "slavery by freedom.
If the churches offered those who might be leaders among their fellows a practical solution of existence, kindled their self-respect, replaced a life of drudgery by one of inspiration--that would be worth while.
The life would be like heaven after her presentdrudgery in finishing the Misses Pontifex, who were stupid and supercilious.
The driest blue-books would not have been too weary for me--the dullest drudgery of parliamentary detail would have been pleasant work, if it could have helped him in his progress to political distinctions.
It would be easy to point out defects in her style, and in some of her books there is evidence of the enforced drudgery of production, instead of the spontaneous flow of thought.
She was all ready to go to Lancaster, to hard drudgery at sewing, when her old place as governess was again offered to her, and her own support was assured.
Percival imitated the silence of Becky, whose spirit was so bowed down by an existence of drudgery that not even the sight of her foster-son could draw her attention from the respect due to a superior.
Is it any less drudgery to stand all day behind a counter, serving customers, than to tend a doorbell and wait on a table?
Her hands lose their shape and softness after childhood, and domestic drudgery destroys her beauty of form and softness and bloom of complexion after marriage.
The whole night long, whenever I was awake, did the sun smile in to us through our silken walls, and it was so warm and light that I lay and dreamed dreams of summer, far from lanes and drudgery and endless toil.
It was glorious, though, to go to rest in the certainty that we should not wake to drudgery in the drift-ice.
Johansen was even certain that we should do it the same day, but nevertheless thirteen days were to elapse, occupied in the same monotonous drudgery over the drift-ice.
He owed it to himself, he said, to remind her that he had not judged lightly, and that Roderick's present achievements were more profitable than his inglorious drudgery at Messrs.
You wish not to engage in the drudgery of the bar.
The latter, however, would require a little previous drudgery at the bar, to qualify you to discharge your duty with satisfaction to yourself.
This, and the possession of the precious certificate, her talisman to freedom, hidden always in her bosom, made her daily drudgery easy to her and her hours full of hope and happiness.
I can never, never go back to my old life again--that hopeless, dreary drudgery on the farm!
Then good-by to household drudgery and the perpetual self-sacrifice that robbed her of all that was worth while in life.
But success is the child ofdrudgery and perseverance.
If one is interested in his work, it is pleasant--indeed more enjoyable than play; but if there is no interest it is all drudgery and pain.
It is little to be wondered at that women as a rule wish to leave the drudgery of rural life.
At least a woman's household drudgerydoes not end in a barnacle, or in dead coin, but in a living and loved personality whose comfort and health it secures.
Why should we accept life's necessary drudgery for our boys and refuse it for our girls?
Finding the drudgery of a sedentary occupation and the flatness and quietude of village life irksome to his active temperament and aspiring spirit, after a few years' work at shoemaking, he made off to sea.
For Miss Charlotte Forrest was a born artist, and in no mere caprice had persuaded her father to let her adopt the profession, and accepted the drudgery of a novitiate.
It would relieve officers from the drudgery of squad-drills, and give the service the full time of their men instead of wasting six, perhaps more, months in the present recruit classes.
I hope to be independent of publishers and drudgery before long; I fancy--I rather believe it depends upon myself, and I think I owe it to my own genius to raise myself above the necessity of drudgery.
He was so good-natured, and they could make use of him to do much of the drudgery of the camp; so Mr. Garrabrant decided to let Ginger go along, even though he was not to be trusted to get their meals any longer.
Of course Elmer himself took an oar, and kept up his part of the drudgery from start to finish; and his chum Mark also did his share with credit.
Elmer and Mr. Garrabrant were exempt from this drudgery if they so pleased, but the chances were, both of them would obtain less sleep, that night at least, than any of the others.
The sharp physical and mental labor, the constant hurry and drudgery produce a state of tension and irritation which demands before the night's sleep some dulling inhibition if a dangerous unrest is not to set in.
He had now the command of a good laboratory; he had not to undergo the drudgery of systematic teaching, but was only required to give lectures to a general audience.
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