taskwork
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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 Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew
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
The vast public structures of the later kings were comparable to the taskwork of the builders of the Egyptian pyramids, and they still strike us with astonishment, and surprise.
From Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) by Various
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 Arnold, Matthew
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
