| 1. | Official work here was not the stiff, hopeless drudgery that it was in Moscow. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | What a starved, unloved life she had had--a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 3. | Denisov then relieved him from drudgery and began taking him with him when he went out on expeditions and had him enrolled among the Cossacks. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | He studied in Germany worked as a private secretary, till the drudgery wore upon his free spirit then he went to Rome and remained for two years, lost in study. - from English Literature by William J. Long |