labor-spent

Updated: May 27, 2025

Have you ever, at the close of some hot, labor-spent day in August, sat out of doors until the evening air became deliciously cool, and then climbed to your attic dormitory, there to spend a sleepless night in perspiration and despair, anathematizing the man who built and the fate which compelled you to occupy such a chamber of torment?

E. C. (Eugene Clarence) Gardner - Homes and How to Make Them