taskwork

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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)

Many of the later compositions even lack religious feeling, and seem to have been written as taskwork.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

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

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

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