" He devoted himself to his task with intense interest, and was completely preoccupied.

I began again at the beginning, to such a wretched, paralyzing torpedo of a task as my hand never found to do.

Yet Carlyle manfully accomplished his task, and I am inclined to think that the second writing was better than the first; that he probably left out what was unessential, and made a more condensed narrative,a more complete picture, for his memory was singularly retentive.

Nothing but direst necessity reconciled him to the disagreeable task.

At last Carlyle's task on the "Life of Oliver Cromwell" was finished in August, 1845, when he was fifty years of age.

BOOK VIII CONTINUATION OF CAESAR'S GALLIC WAR ASCRIBED TO AULUS HIRTIUS PREFACE Prevailed on by your continued solicitations, Balbus, I have engaged in a most difficult task, as my daily refusals appear to plead not my inability, but indolence, as an excuse.

The favour with which the new edition of his posthumous papers has been received induces me, therefore, to resume a task which I thought, five years ago, that I had finally completed; and it is my intention to bring out one more volume, selected partly from these papers and partly from his Parerga.

These, again, were trusted by many others, whose laziness suggested to them that it was better to believe at once, than to go through the troublesome task of testing the matter for themselves.

D'Artagnan undertook this difficult task, while Aramis was to personate Bishop Juxon, the royal chaplain, and explain to Charles the attempt being made to save him.

It was a difficult task proceeding in this way.

The line was made fast to a tree, and they commenced the far more difficult and dangerous task of returning.

But to my former task.

It was no easy task that he had taken on himself.

But the task of a ruler or legislator is often but a choice between difficulties, or even between manifest evils.

He applied to the Duke of Wellington to undertake the formation of a new ministry; and the Duke, explaining to the King that "the difficulty of the task consisted in the state of the House of Commons, earnestly recommended him to choose a minister in the House of Commons," and named Sir Robert Peel as the fittest object for his Majesty's choice.

This task finished, she proceeded to make the room tidy, and then set about making beef-tea in a little saucepan.

This society has an herculean task to perform; and, in consideration of it, our American friends might well be excused for some years, were it possible, from all foreign operations.

" This clause pledges the North, not only to refuse an asylum to the fugitive slave, but also to deliver him up to his unrighteous and cruel task-master,a deed which the law of God expressly condemns, and which the best impulses of our nature repudiate with loathing and contempt.

There was a mystery here, a mystery of the deepest dye; and it was for himit must needs be his task, welcome or unwelcome, to unravel it.

A donkey, that was maimed either from its birth or by an accident, was dragging itself with great exertion across the street, a task which it required several minutes to accomplish.

" Though the task was but half accomplished, they were exhausted by the strenuous effort, and hailed the rest eagerly.

He was followed shortly afterward by 'Frisco Kid, French Pete remaining at his lonely task of beating down the bay and out to sea.

In the midst of this task Joe glanced at the firm-name, gilt-lettered on the face of it, and read: "Bronson & Tate."

Formerly, he said, it was "whipwhipwhipincessantly, but now we are relieved from this disagreeable task.

The negroes will not work under their former hard task-masters.