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   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

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

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

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

A dull coarse web her small life seems made of; but even from its taskwork, which is undertaken for childhood itself, there are glittering threads cast across its woof and warp of care.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John