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taskwork

[task-wurk, tahsk-] / ˈtæskˌwɜrk, ˈtɑsk- /


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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

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

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

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 Symonds, John Addington

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




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