Taskwork

Word TASKWORK
Character 8
Hyphenation task work
Pronunciations N/A

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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. ❋ John Forster (1844)

As soon as possible after coming to the throne, he swept away all privilege and right that had been conceded to the commons, commanded that there should no longer be any of those assemblages on the occasions of festivals and sacrifices that had before tended to unite the people and to break the monotony of their lives; he put the poor at taskwork, and mistrusted, banished, or murdered the rich. ❋ Arthur Gilman (N/A)

-- He who has reconciled poverty to its lot, toil to its taskwork, care to its burden -- nay, I would say even -- grief to its grave? ❋ Various (N/A)

And now she gave justice and laws to her people, and adjusted or allotted their taskwork in due portion; when suddenly Aeneas sees advancing with a great crowd about them Antheus and Sergestus and brave ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

But I have a taskwork to accomplish -- one, I think, which God, by fitting me thereto, has pointed out as mine. ❋ Various (N/A)

A well-regulated prison, where the severity of the taskwork, the nature of the diet, the duration and the strictness of the confinement, all admit of apportionment to the offence, seems to include all that is desirable in this matter of punishment. ❋ Various (N/A)

Would that I could agree; but I see her in the cities and everywhere, set down to menial taskwork. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)

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. ❋ Morley, John, 1838-1923 (1905)

All this without reference to the trouble and expense entailed by an aggregation of the trivial taskwork of signing one's name, addressing envelopes, sticking on stamps, and occasionally paying for them, and not infrequently defraying the extra postage on insufficiently stamped admiration. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)

The laborious work of brickmaking was generally assigned to captives as taskwork, and it appears to me highly probable that "the tale" of the brickmaker or his taskmaster might be most readily marked by simply indenting the side of the soft tale brick with the corner angle of a dry one; and that thus the strikingly peculiar character of the cuneiform character was produced (see Fig. 6). ❋ Nasmyth, James (1885)

In the stitching and pasting of these tracts, the whole household were required to assist and it was against this irksome taskwork that Dorothea, at the age of twelve, rebelled, running away from Worcester, where the family then lived, and finding a refuge with her grandmother in Boston. ❋ Seth Curtis Beach (1884)

It's clear I can't do two things at a time -- make love and carry on my taskwork. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

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! ❋ John Gibson Paton (1865)

Scratched table, desks, copybooks, and worn grammars, had more the air of a comfortable occupation than of the shabby haunt of irksome taskwork. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

How different in spirit was Southey! labouring not merely at work of his own choice, and at taskwork often tedious and distasteful, but also unremittingly and with the utmost eagerness seeking and storing knowledge purely for the love of it. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

It is a melancholy truth, however, that the majority of Roman artists are doomed, by the absence of encouragement, to a monotonous and humiliating round of taskwork and trade; occupied half their time in re-copying copies, and the remainder in recommending their goods to the foreign purchaser. ❋ Edmond About (1856)

I certainly did not undertake the subject from the first as a mere taskwork, but because I felt a true interest in it, and conceived that it was capable, in some respects, of ❋ 1823-1886 (1855)

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