drudge

Such a crushing fall, a young lady abased to the level of a drudge!

If a man has to live by his wits, he must drudge; there's no help for it.

To the young man work is a drudge, a necessity to keep him alive.

You are a toiler, a drudge, you knock off a great deal of work.

The drudge longs for the end of labor, the artist for it to begin.

The drudge does only what he must when he works, the artist all he can.

"Well, I'm not going to drudge all my life," said the boy at last.

You'd have to keep the house clean, and do the cooking, and be a drudge.

Probably promotion was not for her; she must drudge on as best she might.

"Well, I'm not going to drudge all my life," said Albert, at last.