"Drudge" Quotes from Famous Books
... but without any great noise, by reason of the obscure sound of the vowel u. In like manner, from throw and roll is made troll, and almost in the same sense is trundle, from throw or thrust, and rundle. Thus graff or grough is compounded of grave and rough; and trudge from tread or trot, and drudge. ... — A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
... said. 'I haven't seen her since she came back. She lives at home, on the farm, and almost never comes to town. She brought the baby in to show it to mama once. I'm afraid she's settled down to be Ambrosch's drudge for good.' ... — My Antonia • Willa Cather
... The wonderful artistic monuments of that era, which have survived the intervening centuries of decay and vandalism, are a striking testimony to the perfection of production in a civilisation in which work was considered to be but a form of prayer, and the manufacturer was prompted to be, not a drudge, but an artist. ... — An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching • George O'Brien
... drudge before the grate swept the hearth once and then swept it again. Having done it twice, she did it three times; and, as she was doing it the third time, the sound of the story so lured her to listen that she fell under the spell and ... — A Little Princess • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... who's to be the drudge in Paul's privileged family. It doesn't strike me it's going to be Moya. And Paul only drudges for ... — The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote
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