38 Words to use with tasks

'Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine, but a slavery, worse than all slavery, to be a bookseller's dependant, to drudge your brains for pots of ale and breasts of mutton, to change your free thoughts and voluntary numbers for ungracious task-work.

Duty is a stern task-master; and sternness, coming early into one's life, hardens its edges, but does not sap passion from the soul or devotion from the heart.

Some communities operated on the basis of time-work, or the gang system; others on piece-work or the task system.

[U.S.]; remuda^; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment &c (combatants) 726; host &c (multitude) 102; populousness. clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association &c (party) 712. volley, shower, storm, cloud.

"Thou thy weary [worldly] task hast done, Home art gone and ta'en thy wages.

Joel went at the task hand over hand and heard behind him West, laboring greatly at his swimming.

Could there be a better illustration of Sir Frederick Pollock's noble tribute to the genius of the common law: "Remember that Our Lady, the Common Law, is not a task-mistress, but a bountiful sovereign, whose service is freedom.

One lot of task-men with their carts and buffaloes cut the canes, carried them to the mill, and ground them.

My daily allowance of composition was five pages of this demy in quarto; and I held my natural laziness sternly to that task day in, day out, to the end.

But now, my Muse, the arduous task engage, And shew the charming figure on the stage; Describe her look, her action, voice and mein, The gay coquette, soft maid, or haughty Queen.

Henceforth some other task essay, Of Chaos thou the wondrous son!

Dark, but | comely, | like the | maiden | in the | ancient | Jewish | song, Scarcely | has the | toil of | task-fields | done her graceful | beauty | wrong.

With ease thou canst thy sacred task fulfil; For nowhere doth benignity, which comes In human form from heaven, so quickly gain An empire o'er the heart, as where a race, Gloomy and savage, full of life and power, Without external guidance, and oppress'd With vague forebodings, bear life's heavy load.

535 Yet here we are, by night and day Grinding through rough and smooth our way; Through foul and fair our task fulfilling; And long shall be so yetGod willing!"

Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The task acre was commonly not a square of 210 feet, but a rectangle 300 feet long and 150 feet broad, divided into square halves and rectangular quarters, and further divisible into "compasses" five feet wide and 150 feet long, making one sixtieth of an acre.

But yet, that ye may know, with words I'll tell it you: What time the royal mansion's gloomy inner court, Upon my task intent, with solemn step I trod, I wondered at the drear and silent corridors.

She seems to dread the approaching hardships of her task-labour extremely.

What's task number two?" "To sit on the TNT!

This piece of sculpture was preserved by some chance and was brought to Rome in accordance with a vision that Caesar saw in a dream: there it accorded those who desired to undertake the task permission to settle the city again and place the deity on her original site,only they did not acquire more than seven and one-half stadia of the territory.

It was a difficult task proceeding in this way.

All work together, all together rest, The morning still renews their labours past; Then all rush out, their different tasks pursue, Sit on the bloom, and suck the ripening dew; Again, when evening warns them to their home, With weary wings and heavy thighs they come, 240 And crowd about the chink, and mix a drowsy hum.

20 The daw gave honest counsel, though despised, And, tedious in her tattle, thus advised: 'Stay, silly bird, the ill-natured task refuse, Nor be the bearer of unwelcome news. Be warned by my example: you discern What now I am, and what I was shall learn.

('tis a wish of mine) Now that our morning meal is done, 10 Make haste, your morning task resign; Come forth and feel the sun.

Little Bell sat down amid the fern: "Squirrel, squirrel, to your task return; Bring me nuts," quoth she.

38 Words to use with  tasks