Get Dilly to make you that boiled rice every night after your brainwork.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
A couple of hours' serious brainwork in the day was all that was ever possible to him henceforward.
"Marcella"
Mrs. Humphry Ward
She felt that the right was the same as ever; but it was an increased struggle to maintain the resolute abstinence from all that could bind Colin to her, at the moment when he was most likely to be detached, and it was a struggle rendered the more trying by the monotony of a life, scarcely varied except by the brainwork, which she was often obliged to relinquish.
"The Clever Woman of the Family"
Charlotte M. Yonge