taskwork

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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 Wilson, John Lyde

Were they to give up the memory of their fathers, and their attachment to their customary mode of life, in order to perform taskwork for the Egyptians and become Egyptians?

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

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   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

Guthrie’s notion of “An Author by Profession,” entirely derived from his own character, was twofold; literary taskwork, and political degradation.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac