At once the poor wretch began his fruitless task of hunting for the dice, which for ever slipped from his fingers.

If there are born leaders in every other department of the world's work, men who quietly but firmly assert their authority and supremacy in the tasks in which they hold, by free election or legitimate appointment, a place at the headit ought to be so in the Church of God!

I stood over him until he was well at work, then turned back to set tasks for the other men.

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.

If the situation became such as to make it necessary to take the offensive before the force had been brought up to strength, the XXIst Corps would have had to undertake its task with only two divisions, but in those circumstances its operations were to be limited to demonstrations and raids.

The man who starts out to implant a new way of education has a noble task before him, but is it a final one, or even a more than tolerably practical one?

Thence he shortly returned from the rougher school of life to his haunts and tasks at Harrow.

Many of these part-time workers register to do the domestic work of the lusty young village housewife or mother while she is absent from home performing her allotted task on a nearby farm.

For it may well be that this widening and ordering of experience, of consciousness, of behaviour into moral behaviour is our most important task as teachers.

By her followers and co-believers she is unquestionably looked upon as having a divine mission to fulfill, and as though inspired in her great task by supernatural power.

There my time was occupied, for as great a part of each day as I could give to such a task without extreme fatigue, in mastering the language of the country.

Having achieved which result, Guthrum and the rest of the new converts leave the Saxon camp and return to Cirencester at the end of twelve days, loaded with such gifts as it was still in the power of their conquerors to bestow: and Alfred was left in peace, to turn to a greater and more arduous task than any he had yet encountered.

It suddenly came over Agony that she had no right to be calling other people cheats and liars and taking them to task about their sense of honor, she, who was enjoying honors that did not belong to her.

But we will very gladly go on with our task under a nominal king unless he hampers us in the task that grows ever more plainly before us. ...

" "Very little, Father," said Sebastian, returning to the task from which the Colonel's conversation had diverted him.

The judge had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real; he was there to represent a great reality, the justice of states, which we could well enough see beetling over his head, and which his trifling talk nowise affected, and did not impede, since he was entirely well-meaning.

He continued his task after a very quick glance up at her.

Writing has been an almost impossible task during these few last days.

Petreius and Afranius divided this task between themselves, and went in person to some distance from their camp for the purpose of seeing it accomplished.

Her task within the Commonwealth is to maintain the common character and ideals and to adjust the mutual relations of one quarter of the human race.

However, it is become a serious matter that I should convince you I neither slunk from the task through a wilful deserting neglect, or through any (most imaginary on your part) distaste of "Chaucer;" and I will try my hand again,I hope with better luck.

How Gregson and Thorne, two of the best engineers in the country, could voluntarily surrender a task like the building of the Hudson Bay Railroad simply because they were "tired of the country" was more than he could understand.

And misery, the great, abominable social crime, will disappear amid the glorification of labor, the distribution of the universal task among one and all, each accepting his legitimate share of duties and rights.

By dark he had much of the task behind him; by midnight he began to have hope; toward dawn he saw the end; and when daylight came he collapsed.

It was true that he was a foreigner; it was true that his knowledge of the French language was incomplete and incorrect; but his sense of his own ability urged him forward, and his indefatigable pertinacity kept him at his strange task throughout the whole of his life.