The combination of heat, hard, backbreaking work, and the necessity for hurry made haying a particularly fatiguing time.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Truly, Si'Wren observed meekly, a woman's place was under a man's protection, for what woman could match such men in the daily toil of such backbreaking labors as this?
"Si'Wren of the Patriarchs"
Roland Cheney
It will take some backbreaking investigation to get the whole story, because the files show nothing on any of them.
"The Electronic Mind Reader"
John Blaine