Loads of backbreaking labor involved, to say the least.
And there, in his uneasy bed, the Gudgers, as they rose for another day of backbreaking labor, found him — their recording angel, ready to observe and write again.
Once the Europeans arrived, with their native grains, and put in a few generations' worth of backbreaking labor, the plains became the "breadbasket of the world".
War had kept them on the same treadmill they had trudged in Greene's time, battling hunger, thirst and disease, living through a daily rhythm of backbreaking labor set by the transit of the sun.
Not bad cash considering the amount of backbreaking work put into the process.
Her experience was one of backbreaking work 10 hours a day, seven days a week, in 30 degree heat.
Spartacus (1960)- In ancient Rome, a slave called Spartacus (Douglas) leads a tortured, monotonous life of backbreaking labor.
But several months of backbreaking work had passed, and not a dime had been transferred into their accounts, they said.
For many, survival meant 14-hour days of backbreaking work, often on little more than a cupful of rice or a smattering of gruel.
LOUHE, China — Xu Lindong, a poor village farmer with close-cropped hair and a fourth-grade education, knew nothing but decades of backbreaking labor.
