Meanings of slaving at in inglés

You have no need to go slaving at your profession now.

They are slaving at work, but making no progress toward relief.

The forgotten poet, slaving at his small-holding, found that his dream had come true.

I do not see what public life he is destined to, except slaving at a desk.

You've been slaving at those wretched notes.

You'd have her around all the time in her home, slaving at the chores that would break the spirit of a galley slave.

Eudoxia earned a few cents daily by slaving at the wash-tub, and most of this he spent in getting drunk on vile, cheap spirits.

If you're like me, you've been slaving at that gig all week just to get to these 2.5 days off.

I had been slaving at canteen work all day"-sheturned to Mrs. Friend-"anddoing chauffeur by night-you know-fetching wounded soldiers from railway stations.

Slaving at the Athenaeum, May 1885.