But sometimes it was a backbreaking job.

Neverthe- less, they moved to New Mexico and began the backbreaking job of getting everything started.

Both of them were full of furniture swathed in dusty sheets and it looked like it would be a backbreaking job to move it out.

It was not a backbreaking job, as he liked to say, but whether he was lying or not, one could not, of course, tell.

The competition for $60-a-day backbreaking jobs is acute.

Riley had a backbreaking job.

To say nothing of the demands of literature; in Stafford's succinct formulation, "Being a writer and being married to a writer is a backbreaking job and my back is now broken."

The son will get a backbreaking job of some sort or, in some cases, keep the donkey's life at bay by enrolling at a madrassah, most of which offer free tuition, room and board.

It is the spring wool-shearing season in the West, when ranchers have usually hired local crews for the backbreaking job.

Like a small-town bucket brigade, the restaurants of TriBeCa, with help from others across Manhattan, have lined up to feed those doing the backbreaking job of rescue and recovery.