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Here I am slaving away for about seventy-five dollars per month, year in and year out.

From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel)

The girls think that they are busy, but long after they are asleep at night I am slaving away correcting exercises.

From Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story by Tarrant, Percy

It's too bad, when I am slaving here, for Eben to waste my substance on riotous living.

From Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune by Alger, Horatio

Here I am slaving away for fourteen a week and he spends three hundred just for his rooms.

From Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst by Broadhurst, George Howells

You certainly have the art of putting your ideas with remarkable force and clearness; now that I am slaving over proof-sheets it makes me almost envious.

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James