And he is not, on the other hand, merely running away from the drudgery of the farm.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
Life had been so arduous for all of them from the start that she could not help dreading any sudden relaxation of his grasp upon what he held, though, as she knew from inspection of her own life, such sudden impulse to let go and make away from the discipline and the drudgery was sometimes almost irresistible.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Or, this saving, properly applied, would purchase many labor-saving devices which would make life less of a drudgery on many dairy farms.
"Economy of the Round Dairy Barn"
Wilber John Fraser