But they quickly found that this desire and capacity for self-development was incompatible with the long days filled with dreary tasks required by factory work.

Ramagemanaged to avoid giving a sigh of relief: he had not been told to escort a convoy, the dreariest task he could think of.

Priscilla clamped her jaw on a caustic remark and began the dreary task of determining where exactly they were in relation to where the captain wished them to be.

I couldn't bear for her to do the dreary task, and walk the East End streets, at night, alone.

Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting.

It was a dreary task plodding through that jungle.

The next entry is:-'A long and dreary task reaching the river, which was much farther off than we expected, as it had taken a big bend to the south.

In the time that Cassandra had been there, the older woman had become accustomed to Cassandra's taking from her shoulders many of the dreary tasks of running a household.

After the war, the Navy decided that the dreary task of flying transport planes or dirigibles should fall to enlisted men.

Finding all remonstrance useless, the three comrades hastened on their way, leaving these strange travellers to their dreary task.