Meanings of plugge away in English

I'd been plugging away in a country school for years, on a starvation salary.

Scharfenstein had been plugging away over rusty rails and grass-grown ties-tillhe came to Barscheit.

Dick and his three men are plugging away at the breast of the drift with air-drills.

One after another I plugged away with my shots, now bent on making the most of them.

Steve and I plugged away up the Stewart, and six weeks afterward that Spot crawled into camp.

The enemy's eight-inch howitzers were plugging away.

You sit there steady, with my haid in your lap, while some one is plugging away at us.

For at least five minutes they plugged away and then Nancy, rising up again, uttered a startled exclamation.

Yale had us on the run and plugged away until we were digging our toes into our twelve-yard line.

Start with something fun, that's close to your heart, and keep plugging away a little bit at a time.

You may see that the wreckage has already been cleared away, and the enemy is still plugging away at us.

"A fellow gets tired of plugging away at his studies all the time."

It's been plugging away at Dad's Canyon for millions of years, but the Canyon is doing business at the same old stand.

He had expected to find himself plugging away at a flying target in the distance; instead, the black monster was rushing straight for him, silently.

"A man never gets anywhere, Mr. Smart," said he, unruffled by his miserable exhibition, "unless he keeps plugging away at a thing.