Digging
Labor
Labor noun - A dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work.
Both words in one sentence
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Even though he looks like a mole and lives underground, he lets his giant monsters do all the manual labor, including digging tunnels.
Source: Tunnel King - Eye Scream: The Twinkle-Eyed Ponies were enslaved by a gemstone loving wizard, who forced them to labor in the darkness digging out luminescent gemstones, which basically drove them blind.
Source: Comic Book / My Little Pony -
Vampire Express had you teleported to a slave labor prison planet where a muscular man in a loincloth tells you that you will spend the rest of your life eating nothing but worms and digging for diamonds.
Source: The Many Deaths of You
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