The women are without doubt the drudges of the men, and pitiable examples of this often came under my observation.
They are allowed to speak freely before the men, their advice is asked, and the men do not make drudges of them.
We saw there that primitive man desires wives chiefly as drudges and concubines.
Words so uttered are like coins fresh from the mint, compared with the worn and dingy drudges of long service,--I do not mean American coins, for those look less badly the more they lose of their original ugliness.
It cannot be maintained without a costly apparatus of dress and furniture, and of drudges to do the dirty work; and consequently it demands success in that competitive thrift which gives a good money-income.
They are regarded as toys when babies, dolls when boys and girls, drudges when young men and women.
Once in a season too they taste of love: Only the beast of reason is its slave, And in that folly drudges all the year.
Moreover Prosper and Miranda sleep In confidence he drudges at their task, And it is good to cheat the pair, and gibe, Letting the rank tongue blossom into speech.
Why, what profit in your son Beyond the drudges you might subsidize, Have the same work from, at a paul the head?
And he might continue by saying that a slave's life was not its own excuse for being, nor were the labours of a million drudges otherwise justified than by the conveniences which they supplied their masters with.
The real inference is, I take it, that the demand which was springing up attracted a great many impecunious persons, who became the drudges of the rising class of booksellers.
The industrious drudges and clever charlatans could make a respectable income.
These fairies, it is said, were employed as the drudges of a former Earl of Menteith, in making the small peninsula known as Arnmauk, which juts out from the southern shore of the lake towards the small island of Inchmahome.
The dwarfs are the serfs and drudges of the taller race, to whom they are distinctly inferior in intellectual capacity.
The great difference was that then they were not working as the drudges of another people, but for themselves, and at the command of their leader.
Strip women of this prerogative, and they become the drudges of man's indolence, or the pampered playthings of his idle hours, subject to his caprices, and slaves to his mean passions.
How many professional men there are, who are mere drudges among drugs, parchments, and ceremonials?
They are drudges everywhere, and when too old to labor are sometimes neglected.
As for the children--if their parents are satisfied to let them grow up to be half-starved drudges for other people, I don't see why you or I need trouble about it.
And as for their children--most of those savages would rather knock them on the head with a tomahawk than allow them to grow up to be half-starved drudges for other men.
In those days to be a "master" tradesman meant to be master of the trade, not merely of some underpaid drudges in one's employment.
The resentment of those who were out of work was directed, not only against the heads of the firm, but also against the miserable, half-starved drudges in their employment.
They sent her to a public-school, where the sad-eyed drudges of the traders came to be drilled for their tasks.
This was a typical cheap boarding-house, a place where the drudges of trade were herded; it was a home of sordidness and ugliness--to Thyrsis its people seemed like carefully selected types of all things that he hated in the world.
They did not realize it now--else how could it be that women, who bore the race with so much pain and sorrow, should be drudges and slaves, or the ornaments and playthings of men?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drudges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
