taskwork

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The only thing that troubles me for you is the taskwork of investigation.

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth

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 Arnold, Matthew

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

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