taskwork
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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 Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 Matthew Arnold
The vast public structures of the later kings were comparable to the taskwork of the builders of the Egyptian pyramids, and they still strike us with astonishment, and surprise.
From Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) by Various
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 John Lyde Wilson
