Mr. Fox told her that "one hundred or one hundred and fifty pounds a year is as much as our most successful writers usually make"-success here meaning, of course, full employment in hackwork.
"Harriet Martineau"
Florence Fenwick Miller
At last, when a thousand feet have trodden upon a thing of inestimable price, there comes along a newspaper man, doing the driest kind of hackwork, bound to a drudgery as stale and dreary as any in life, and he sees what no man has ever seen before him, though it has been plain in view for years and years.
"My Contemporaries In Fiction"
David Christie Murray
Half-a- dozen flying machines were doing hackwork at the thousand-foot level, looking like little black swallows against the green background.
"Danger! and Other Stories"
Arthur Conan Doyle