When Nancy Ellen becomes interested in dresses and table linen and bedding she will want to sew all the time, and leave the cooking and dishes for you as well as your schoolwork.
"A Daughter of the Land"
Gene Stratton-Porter
Therefore she would continue her schoolwork with her pupils as long as the school would allow her; and when that became impossible, would fall back upon literature.
"The Woman Who Did"
Grant Allen
"And I'm no swell at schoolwork, either.
"The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch