taskwork
Example Sentences
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For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly 40Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.
From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Matthew Arnold
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 John O'Rourke
Many of the later compositions even lack religious feeling, and seem to have been written as taskwork.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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
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 Max Duncker
