Despite this, characters often complain of exhausting hard labor and difficulties of living with the remaining inconveniences.

Laundry day was Blue Monday, because such cheerless and exhausting labor could only be tackled after a day of rest.

Through harsh, exhausting labor, he and his friends managed to destroy thousands of acres of grassland, turning them into a wasteland.

The girl's mother, a superstitious, illiterate woman, has been broken by years of abuse and exhausting labor in the fields.

The exhausting labours of the vice-chancellorship were followed by an illness (1887); and after this he relinquished the hope of producing any great original writing.

Unless you consider that exhausting labor.

Despite this, everyone complains of exhausting hard labor and difficulties living with the remaining inconveniences.

Finally, after weeks of exhausting labor, they emerge into the lake.

Even family life was abolished in favor of communal, often fatally exhausting, labor.

Besides the bad food, water, clothing and shelter, they were subjected to exhausting labor and abuse.