body-breaking

Updated: May 8, 2025

To be sure, the wage was infinitesimal, while the toil was body-breaking soul-breaking. Still, the pittance could be made to sustain life, and Mary was blessed with both soul and body to sustain much. So she merged herself in the army of workers in the vast battalion of those that give their entire selves to a labor most stern and unremitting, and most ill rewarded.

Marvin Hill Dana - Within the Law