taskwork

Example Sentences

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And such books as these were part of his spiritual taskwork.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

Even to the lamentable taskwork of bad comic engravings for dead and putrescent “Wit’s Magazines” his biographer has tracked him and taken note of his doings.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

But I have a taskwork to accomplish—one, I think, which God, by fitting me thereto, has pointed out as mine.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various

Those at taskwork had fivepence, and in some cases as low as threepence per diem.

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John