It never occurred to me that this was anything but an onerous, backbreaking task, perhaps because the men in my family complained so long and loud.
Maintaining the quality of a primetime series is a backbreaking job.
Collecting water is a backbreaking job that takes up many hours of the day.
Perhaps because it is directed by a woman and tells its story from the points of view of the various women in the film, "What's Cooking?" gets more into the nitty-gritty of preparation, a cheerful but backbreaking task.
Two months after the tanker Prestige sank 133 miles off the Spanish coast, more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians continue the backbreaking task of scraping gluey fuel oil from sand and rocks stained by "black tides".
He even found himself doing the backbreaking task of digging pits for several families.
But the senator also seemed to revel in assigning his son some of the most backbreaking tasks, like clearing 20 hilly acres with a hand ax.
We read about servants' "footsore hours" and backbreaking tasks, and we encounter the Bennet sisters mostly via their soiled linens, "their sweat, their stains, their monthly blood".
*In the fields, where there is virtually no farm machinery, women perform backbreaking tasks with shovels and pickaxes, but in the capital's Hotel Dajti there is now a credit-card charge machine and a fax machine.
As she sees it, the agricultural industry, with its backbreaking tasks and its reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, could use the methodical touch of a robot tuned to hear the plants cry.
In Henry Aaron's America these were genius words, essential passages in his personal survival guide, the strategy employed by poor blacks to conserve the energy they would need for the backbreaking tasks they would face every day for the rest of their lives".
