They invariably draw to themselves the high-spirited youths of the towns; and the girls, offered the choice of drudging poverty or the protection of a farmer of taxes, are sometimes discovered to have gone away during the excitement of a midnight foray.
"Command"
William McFee
She had been very good to her on more than one occasion, and the most appreciative remark that Mrs. Ermsted had ever found to make regarding her was that the poor thing was so fond of drudging for somebody that it was a real kindness to let her.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
However breathless and hurried it made one's female relations in its upper reaches, and drudging in its lower, the very highest?
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim