taskwork

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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 Dewey, Mary Elizabeth

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 Paton, James

Those at taskwork had fivepence, and in some cases as low as threepence per diem.

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John

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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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)