Mr. McKayle depicts prisoners on a chain gang: their daily drudgery, their romantic desires and their determination to escape.
The final verse sees the narrator describing the daily drudgery and degradation of life in the penal colony, and dreaming of joining the bushrangers and taking revenge on his floggers.
Led by William Parry's quarrelsome bachelor, they sing self-mockingly about daily drudgeries and about the inept superintendent of their building (the Hamm of the title).
Her brief internment was their daily drudgery.
Mr. Harris has been described as more of a hands-on manager than Mr. Lorenzo, who was seen as more interested in making deals than in the daily drudgeries of airline schedules and routes.
But these solemn lessons which succeeded those, I remember as the death-blow of my peace, and a grievous daily drudgery and misery.
The chance to escape from the daily drudgery in the pits must have been more than attractive.
While the African slaves no doubt looked forward to Pinkster for the break from their daily drudgery and the socializing, it does not minimize the horrors of slavery.
The Crooked Eye follows a quiet woman through her daily drudgery while persistent memories of a recently unraveled marriage dreamily connect the guilty moments that made her world so unreal and unreliable.
They performed well but he thought these highborn women would get tired of the daily drudgery of nursing soon enough.