taskwork

Example Sentences

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For I worked at work that I liked, and did no taskwork.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

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 Duncker, Max

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

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 Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)

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