26 collocations for task

There are some studies which task the physical strength of men to its utmost tension.

If any intellectual pursuit has gone round in perpetual circles, incapable apparently of progression or rest, it is that glorious study of philosophy which has tasked more than any other the mightiest intellects of this world, and which, progressive or not, will never be relinquished without the loss of what is most valuable in human culture.

Among my melancholy reflections I tasked my memory, and counted over the doors, the locks, the bolts, the chains, the massy walls, and grated windows, that were between me and liberty.

Next I threw aside my favorite works of imagination and feeling, and for two years read scarcely a book which did not severely task my mind.

Then task your imagination, reversing this picture, to conceive of quite an opposite messenger, a lean, straitlocked, wheyfaced methodist, for such was he in reality who brought it, the Genius (it seems) of the Wesleyan Magazine.

To paint this, unless means of painting lightthe one great deficiency which is still the opprobrium of human artwere discovered, would task to the uttermost the powers of the ablest artist, and at best he could give but a very imperfect notion of it.

This was available in two ways, first by combining with it physical exercise, and then by tasking the faculties of observation.

He never over-tasked his brain, or suffered himself, like Raphael,who died exhausted at thirty-seven,to crowd three days into one, knowing that over-work exhausts the nervous energies and shortens life.

They reminded me of the pretty French story, in which an old artist is described as tasking the ingenuity of his future son-in-law by giving him as a subject for his pencil a flower-piece composed of only white flowers, of which the one-half were to bear their proper colour, the other half a deep purple hue, and yet all be perfectly natural; and how the young man resolved the riddle, and gained his

From grammar, through sacred history, arithmetic, geography, mythology, down to dictation, Pupasse could pile up an accumulation of penitences that would have tasked the limits of the current day had not recreation been wisely set as a term which disbarred, by proscription, previous offenses.

You are to task the negroes yourself, and each negro is responsible to you for his own work, and nobody's else.

It might be either to the ear, though to the eye it is elaborate rhyme,such as would severely task a made poet, but which this born poet seems to have thrown off without labor.

while each day blackens with fresh clouds, Complaints of ague, fever, crumbling huts, Of land thrown out to the forest, game and keepers, Bailiffs and barons, plundering all alike; Need, greed, stupidity: To clear such ruin Would task the rich prime of some noble hero But can I nothing do? Wal.

The white walls of the fortress rise grimly out of the sea, touching the land only upon one side, and looking as though they might task well the resources of modern warfare to reduce them.

Accordingly I tasked the stores of my memory, and my powers of invention.

I hope that little MS. of mine did not task your sympathies; I don't want you to pity me, but to magnify Him who took such pains with me, and is carrying on just such work in thousands of hearts and lives.

For the favorite in-door exercise of dumb-bells we have little to say; they are not an enlivening performance, nor do they task a variety of muscles,while they are apt to strain and fatigue them, if used with energy.

The life of the place, the constant necessity of masking his aversion to the Spragues, his detestation of Dick, the simple merry-making and intimate amenities of such close quarters, tasked his small art of dissimulation beyond even the most practiced powers.

xx., 30. I. Ye know, holy brethren, full well as we do, that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the physician of our eternal health; and that to this end we task the weakness of our natures, that our weakness might not last forever.

for we dare not task your soft serene beatitude, by asking you to help us!

The doctor was really a ripe scholar, and truly kind-hearted; but his great fault was over-tasking his boys, and not seeing when the bow was too much stretched.

To resist its seductions would have tasked the self-denial of a more constant anchorite than our dashing Jack ever aspired to be, in the lowest stage of his martial vicissitudes.

The maintenance of good relations with Austria tasked the Prince's diplomacy to the utmost.

To find out this, you task the whole force of insight that is in the man.

The girls of the household were patriots, in whom zeal often overran discretion, and the pranks they played on the British officers must sometimes have tasked the gentlemen in the latter to a point on the limits of endurance.

26 collocations for  task