slogging

I don’t read a lot of fiction when I’m on point with my writing (and I have been as of late, thank goodness, flying after you’ve been slogging is always a good feeling) but given the several-days break I’m taking with this visit I needed a plane book.

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And the aforementioned conditions make the idea of slogging out to Westford less than appealing … especially since I'd be coming home in the dark.

Fedora People 2009

Also on Nov. 8, Levinsohn took the stage at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, telling attendees that his work at Fox on MySpace is "slogging," and has caused him to gain weight and lose sleep.

MySpace Exec Out At FoxFox Replaces Online Exec With Cousin 2006

That's when we're really going to have a clear sign if people are back on track, or if we're just kind of slogging around in nowheresville.

CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2001 2001

Elizabethan satirists, -- the vitriolic bitterness of Nash, the sententious profundity of Donne, the happy-go-lucky "slogging" of genial Dekker, the sledge-hammer blows of Jonson, the turgid malevolence of Chapman, and the stiletto-like thrusts of George

English Satires Various 1885

He and Pott were both distinguished for their "slogging" or bludgeoning articles, and both were High Tories, or "Blue," as Mr. Pott had it.

Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

Pirates on May 25, 1935 - is displayed alongside the modern, heftier cricket bats built to empower the "slogging" for the fences - the "boundary," in cricket terms - that is one of the baseball influences that have found their way into contemporary cricket.

NYT > Home Page 2010

Pirates on May 25, 1935 - is displayed alongside the modern, heftier cricket bats built to empower the "slogging" for the fences - the "boundary," in cricket terms - that is one of the baseball influences that have found their way into contemporary cricket.

NYT > Home Page 2010

Pirates on May 25, 1935 - is displayed alongside the modern, heftier cricket bats built to empower the "slogging" for the fences - the "boundary," in cricket terms - that is one of the baseball influences that have found their way into contemporary cricket.

NYT > Home Page 2010

The book is okay but honestly, it's really just kind of slogging along issue to issue and I think it's going to be better in trades anyway, John Cassaday's covers be damned.

iFanboy 2009