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)

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

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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

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