taskwork
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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 Isaac Disraeli
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 John Lyde Wilson
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
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 Matthew Arnold
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 Algernon Charles Swinburne
