taskwork

Example Sentences

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For I worked at work that I liked, and did no taskwork.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

Were they to give up the memory of their fathers, and their attachment to their customary mode of life, in order to perform taskwork for the Egyptians and become Egyptians?

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

Scratched table, desks, copybooks, and worn grammars, had more the air of a comfortable occupation than of the shabby haunt of irksome taskwork.

From The Young Step-Mother by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Even to the lamentable taskwork of bad comic engravings for dead and putrescent “Wit’s Magazines” his biographer has tracked him and taken note of his doings.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

The vast public structures of the later kings were comparable to the taskwork of the builders of the Egyptian pyramids, and they still strike us with astonishment, and surprise.

From Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) by Various