taskwork
Example Sentences
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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 Mary Elizabeth Dewey
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
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
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 James Paton
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
