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.

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.

At length over-tasked nature drops under it, and escapes for a few hours into the society of the sweet silent creatures of dreams, which go away with mocks and mows at cockcrow.

once more the woman asked, Pleased at the fond amazement of the king; "So wise a head should not be hardly tasked, Most learned liege, with such a trivial thing!"

In truth, the imagination is most tasked when it has to paint pictures which shall withstand the silent criticism of general experience, and to frame hypotheses which shall withstand the confrontation with facts.

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.

Imagination is tasked to its utmost stretch to portray sentiments and passions in the way that makes the deepest impression.

Their speculations pertained to the loftiest subjects that ever tasked the intellect of man.

No positive science can boast of such rapid development as geometry for two or three hundred years before Christ, and never was the intellect of man more severely tasked than by the ancient mathematicians.

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.

Sir James Mackintosh, the idol and oracle of English society at that time, pronounced her the most intellectual woman who had adorned the world,not as a novelist and poet merely, but as philosopher and critic, grappling with the highest questions that ever tasked the intellect of man.

He made many excellent and powerful speeches, which tasked the intellect of Webster to refute; but, whatever the subject, it was seen only through his Southern spectacles, and argued from partisan grounds and with partisan zeal.

When, however, success is gained thus far, the way is prepared for further development and culture, and the powers of observation and discrimination, then gradually tasked, will accomplish all that is desired.

The slaves were tasked and given certain amounts to accomplish.

They are emphatically "in prison," restrained by chains, goaded with whips, tasked, and under keepers.

They are emphatically "in prison," restrained by chains, goaded with whips, tasked, and under keepers.

It is the driver's duty to make the tasked hands do their work well.

He customarily tasked his hoe hands, he said, at rates determined by careful observation as just both to himself and the workers.

Telfair wrote briefly: "The negroes to be tasked when the work allows it.

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.

Her round blooming cheek was pale and sunken, her dark chestnut hair had become thin and gray, her bright eyes, over-tasked by use and watching, were faded, and her whole person shrunken.

The memory, indeed, should never be cultivated at the expense of the understanding; as is the case, when the former is tasked with ill-devised lessons by which the latter is misled and bewildered.

That is the way always, and a thing to be tasked to me that was not in it at all.

Still more they tasked The sad one: "If heaven you'd win Far from the burning pit withdraw, Then must you learn to hate your kin, Yea, side against themsuch the law, For Moor and Christian are at war" "Then will I never quit my sire, But here with him through every trial go, Nor leave him though in flames below God help me in his fire!"

Mind, no longer tasked in devising means to accomplish or resist schemes of ambition, usurpation, or conquest, is devoting itself to man's true interests in developing his faculties and powers and the capacity of nature to minister to his enjoyments.