They needed a reason for drudging through practices with no hope for a postseason.
In the most memorable of all, Larkin questions a 13-year-old boy sent up from the country by his impoverished parents to drudge in a Rangoon tea shop for four dollars a month.
He was for a time obliged by poverty to drudge as a parliamentary reporter.
Jim volunteered to do the dishes, giving Blair more time to drudge through the rest of the test papers.
After an unhappy childhood and some years drudging in London, Ireland liberated Trollope from asthma and gave him the impetus to start writing.
