taskwork
Example Sentences
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Guthrie’s notion of “An Author by Profession,” entirely derived from his own character, was twofold; literary taskwork, and political degradation.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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 William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
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 Algernon Charles Swinburne
For I worked at work that I liked, and did no taskwork.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
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 John Morley
