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

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

Guthrie’s notion of “An Author by Profession,” entirely derived from his own character, was twofold; literary taskwork, and political degradation.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

Men are not what they seem to the outward eye—mere machines moving about in customary occupations—productive labourers of food and wearing apparel—slaves from morn to night at taskwork set them by the Wealth of Nations.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

Scratched table, desks, copybooks, and worn grammars, had more the air of a comfortable occupation than of the shabby haunt of irksome taskwork.

From The Young Step-Mother by Yonge, Charlotte Mary