She thus performs a vast amount of daily and nightly mechanical drudgery.

He had no method in his business, and detested mechanical drudgery.

He submitted to the most tiresome mechanical drudgery in the correction of his proof-sheets.

But the long hours of mechanical drudgery were telling on his active body and undisciplined nerves.

Learning, when applied to agriculture, raises it from a mere mechanical drudgery to the dignity of a science.

Any mechanical drudgery that her father could set her, she did without a murmur; or, rather, she claimed it jealously, with a silent passion.

"And they spend their lives in this stitching-noprogress-noimprovement-mere mechanical drudgery."