taskwork

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In the midst of all the hardships of his younger time, as afterwards in the midst of crushing Herculean taskwork, he was saved from moral ruin by the inexhaustible geniality and expansiveness of his affections.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John

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

And such books as these were part of his spiritual taskwork.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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)

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