Meanings of mere drudgery in английском

Nor is it mere drudgery and self-denial which constitute their great merit.

This is mere drudgery and can be more cheaply and easily done at the planing mill by machinery.

Life is a burden, labour mere drudgery, when a man has nothing in which he can interest himself.

Both men and women, in fashionable life, are apt to regard all labor-notonly manual, but mental-asmere drudgery.

Such poems as "Childhood" and "Remembrances" prove that Clare's early life was not mere drudgery and despair.

It is because mothers, almost universally, consider their occupations as mere drudgery, and bring up their children in the same spirit.

The women, disengaged from mere drudgery, were thus profitably employed in dressing the ores, a work which required skill and judgement in the selection.

While, therefore, I recommend it to young women, I do it in the hope that they will not regard it as task-work-asmere drudgery.

Nothing; or a thing that can do mere drudgeries, and at best make money by railways.

'But,' said Magruder, in his impetuous way, 'this is mere drudgery.