404 adjectives to describe tasks

In addition, many a woman is so bound down by daily tasks, that her whole soul cries out, and we hear of the high rate of insanity among farmers' wives, of nervous prostration of the housewives in our towns, and become accustomed to such expressions as "the death of a woman on a Kansas farm.

In spite of this, the Tribune was essentially a "girls' paper," since Thursday Smith was the only man employed on itnot counting the "dummy" editor, Arthur Weldon, who did nothing but keep the books, and found this not an arduous task.

It was a painful and humiliating task, notwithstanding; and it required all the self-command, all the sense of right, and all the clear perception of consequences, that one so quick to discriminate could not avoid perceiving, to enable him to go through it with the required steadiness and connexion.

You'll find it a hopeless task to make the Bible and modern Christianity agree.

It was no light task which he had so cheerfully imposed upon himself.

I proceed to a more pleasant task,pleasant because the poems are yours; pleasant because you impose the task on me; and pleasant, let me add, because it will confer a whimsical importance on me to sit in judgment upon your rhymes.

The gigantic task of a government to draft and prepare a great army and navy was something beyond the grasp of ordinary minds.

The latter appeared to me the more delicate, difficult, and perhaps dangerous task of the two; and I resolved to defer it until after I had acquired some practical experience and dexterity in the control of my machinery.

But their opponents, my lords, are exempt, by their employment, from the laborious task of searching into futurity, and collecting their resolutions, from a long comparison of dark hints and minute circumstances.

And it hath been a pleasing task, thisof teaching thee to loveO, would you had not learned so soon!

That he took the greatest pains in executing his ungrateful and disastrous task is no less clear.

The 60th were in the centre, sandwiched between the Anzacs and Australian Mounted Division, and their allotted task was to clear the country between Sheria and Huj, a distance of ten miles.

And as this drug robs men of their appetite, keeps them thin, and prevents their wounds from healing, it became my unpleasant task to break them of it.

"This will be a dangerous task, Master Craddock," said he.

It was a dreary, trying, thankless task.

I fear you will scarcely find that a congenial task.

Sunday school work she for herself discovered to be a profitable, as she found it to be a delightful task.

The fate of Antwerp shows what might have happened to Paris had the Germans been able to bring up their great siege guns to the outer fortifications of the French capital and protect them while they performed their tremendous task of battering the defenses to pieces.

"I wish you would all do your little tasks as carefully as he does.

For the Malvolio story,the thing is become in verity a sad task, and I eke it out with anything.

Where a proposition is of a mixed kind, and only erroneous in part, it is an useful and no disagreeable task to separate truth from errour, and disentangle from ill consequences such measures as may be pursued with advantage to the publick; but mere stupidity can only produce compassion, and afford no opportunities for inquiry or dispute.

Forgive me that I cannot show my appreciation of your goodness, or thank you properly for your performance of an uncongenial task.

It is a glorious task that lies before the minister of to-dayto maintain, develop, and uplift the spiritual life of the most wonderful epoch of the world's history; to place upon human souls that vital touch that shall hold their powers subject to eternal influences and aims.

There was much dead ground below the entrenchments, but the defences were so arranged that cross fire from one system swept the dead ground on the next spur, and, if the hills were properly held, an advance up them would have been a stupendous task.

I felt as one dedicated to a mighty task.

404 adjectives to describe  tasks