The other performs his set task, but at the same time he is examining into the principles of his engine, or into the conduct of the factory or business.

The room was already growing dark with the early winter twilight, which perhaps rendered it more easy for him to undertake the task of responding to the toast.

The honour of having discovered and exposed the plot must belong to the Triple Alliance alone, and it must be said that they had accomplished their task unaided by any outsiders.

"Retribution must wait till we have finished our task.

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

Impatient to complete his task, Pan was about to grasp his wand when the motion was arrested as the sinking beam of the sun was intercepted by a gigantic shadow, and the stranger again stood by his side.

If that is not possibleif by the question of reforms the Conservative party cannot succeed in making a common arrangement and maintaining the power of the Conservative policy, the Cabinet will leave to others the sad task of presiding over the disorganization of the Conservative party and the ruin of its policy.

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

In spite of this, the Tribune was essentially a "girls' paper," since Thursday Smith was the only man employed on itnot counting the "dummy" editor, Arthur Weldon, who did nothing but keep the books, and found this not an arduous task.

The bulk of the British fleet, however, still in perfect fighting trim, again took up the task of patrolling the North Sea, that no German vessels might make their escape from the fortress of Heligoland, for which point the enemy headed immediately after the battle.

The Declaration sought in its noble idealism to make the "world safe for democracy," but the Constitution attempted the greater task of making democracy safe for the world by inducing a people to impose upon themselves salutary restraints upon majority rule.

I proceed to a more pleasant task,pleasant because the poems are yours; pleasant because you impose the task on me; and pleasant, let me add, because it will confer a whimsical importance on me to sit in judgment upon your rhymes.

The latter brigade was given the important task of capturing Umbrella Hill and El Arish Redoubt.

We ordered refreshments; after partaking thereof we resumed our task.

"By noon the enemy was again heard from and a large detachment was assigned the task of fighting to protect our rear.

He undertakes and executes the task which Brackenbury had refused, and for this service we are told he was knighted.

Pseudo-scientific stories, in which, for example, a drop of water discusses evaporation and condensation, are not stories at all, but a kind of mental meat lozenge, most unsatisfying and probably not even fulfilling their task of supplying nourishment in form of facts.

For the moment Jerusalem must be sufficient, and if in the telling of the British work up to that point I can succeed in giving an idea of the immense value of General Allenby's Army to the Empire, of the soldier's courage and fortitude, of his indomitable will and self-sacrifice and patriotism, it will indeed prove the most grateful task I have ever set myself.

He had accepted the task eagerly in the hope of succeeding the second time better than the first, but Commius, taking advantage of the rash ardor with which his enemy had rushed upon him, had wounded him seriously and escaped.

He struck at Bull's head with it, but the stick was brushed out of his palsied fingers with a single gesture, and, while Uncle Bill groaned with fury and impotence, Bull continued the task of preparing him for bed.

"The maternal relationship" "A truce to this trifling," cried the other six; "fulfil the conditions, or abandon the task.

The ordeal of looking on the dead body of her father had nerved her to carry through resolutely the task of discovering the author of the crime.

We slept on the ground that night, and next morning, under Captain Selover's directions, we commenced the task of lightening the ship.

[Footnote: Unhappily this sketch was afterwards lost, so cannot be reproduced] and on the production of materials and a chair from a neighbouring grocer's she set to work, and in spite of the nearnesswe might say the "too odoriferous nearness "of a dust-heap, a drain, and a swarm of midges, she gallantly pursued her task till it reached a highly satisfactory termination.

Some small steamers of 1000 to 1500 tons burden came up from Port Said to a little cove north of Belah to lighten the railway's task.