taskwork

Example Sentences

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But I have a taskwork to accomplish—one, I think, which God, by fitting me thereto, has pointed out as mine.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various

Merely thou saidst: "At set of sun My humble taskwork will be done; And through the twilight street Come back to view my jewels, when Pattering through the throng of men Go merry schoolboys' feet."

From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)

Men are not what they seem to the outward eye—mere machines moving about in customary occupations—productive labourers of food and wearing apparel—slaves from morn to night at taskwork set them by the Wealth of Nations.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

The only thing that troubles me for you is the taskwork of investigation.

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth

For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew