taskwork
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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.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John
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)
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.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
And such books as these were part of his spiritual taskwork.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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
