taskwork

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Of course, if the parents are not devout, sincere, and affectionate,—if the whole affair on both sides is taskwork, or worse, hypocritical and false,—results must be very different indeed!

From The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by Paton, James

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

Those at taskwork had fivepence, and in some cases as low as threepence per diem.

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John

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

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