As fast as one was flogged from his stubborn position, prone to the depths fell another, giving me a sisyphean labour, which was maddening trader pelting rain, assisted by such men as Bombay and Uledi, who could not for a whole skin's sake stomach the storm and mire.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
I was pleased, therefore, to be freed from the sisyphean labors of the editorial office.
"Recollections of a Varied Life"
George Cary Eggleston
And yet this weary detail of a very long and sisyphean effort to shake off this mortal coil and to enter into rest is worthy of the missionary's attention, as it represents, perhaps, the most elaborate system of eschatology outside of the New Testament.
"India’s Problem Krishna or Christ"
John P. Jones