But while thus Slaving with his hands and saving this small sum in wages, he could not walk round and have an eye upon the other men.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
But I'm Slaving from morning to night.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
"Eternal vigilance" is the price of good ventilation, as well as of liberty; and you will get far more work done in the course of a morning by interrupting it occasionally to go and raise or lower a window, than you will by sitting still and Slaving in a stuffy, ill-smelling room.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson