Then the Bible tells us how these tribes, being weak I suppose because they had no laws, nor patriotism, nor fellow-feeling of their own, became slaves, and suffered for hundreds of years under crafty kings and cruel taskmasters.

" When supper was over Johnnie was a little surprised to see the tall woman approach Pap Himes like a small child begging a favour of a harsh taskmaster.

And the Judge of your workHe is no stern taskmaster, no unfeeling tyrant, but Jesus Christ, your Lord, who died for you on the Cross.

Giri thus understood is a severe taskmaster, with a birch-rod in his hand to make sluggards perform their part.

The old gentleman is always merry and loyal, in spite of the treatment from his imperial taskmaster.

Their passionate devotion to the State, their amazing vulgarity, their worship of mechanism and mechanical efficiency, are explicable in a people who are not strong in individual character, who have suffered much to achieve union, and who have achieved it by subordinating themselves, soul and body, to a brutal taskmaster.

Enormous public works were planned and the enslaved caste were compelled to carry out their allotted labour under rigorous taskmasters, who made their lives a burden to them.