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Definition of Drudgers
1. drudger [n] - See also: drudger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drudgers
Literary usage of Drudgers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (1887)
"For as to those graver drudgers to the press, that write learnedly, beyond the
reach of an ordinary reader, who durst submit their labours to the review of ..."
2. History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1904)
"Miners from the neighboring streams plunged about its poorly lighted streets by
night to partake of the coarse dissipations to which drudgers in the camp ..."
3. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1891)
"... were made into plowmen and tillers of the ground, thrashers, keepers of oxen,
swine, and sheep, drudgers in works vile and rude, reaping and mowing of ..."
4. The Craftsman by Gustav Stickley (1904)
"... to those who genuinely feel the fear, we may say finally that it is scarcely
too bold to hope that in a state of society to which a class of drudgers ..."
5. Three Plays for Puritans by Bernard Shaw (1906)
"That is the worst of us Romans: we are mere doers and drudgers: a swarm of bees
turned into men. Give me a good talker— one with wit and imagination enough ..."
6. Child Study and Child Training by William Byron Forbush (1915)
"The world always has enough artisans and drudgers. It needs more men who are
artists at least in the conduct of their lives and who sing at their work. ..."
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