The task is no light one--the transposition of an initial or the attribution of a casualty to a wrong battalion may mean gratuitous sorrow and anxiety in some distant home in England.
Sometimes, in rare instances, they have had the ability to perform the double task of caring for the household and continuing their own musical labours.
She certainly formed their inspiration, and must have assisted in the task of preparing them.
In the evening, according to his custom, Mozart began the task by sketching out the themes and a general plan of construction for the work.
Many of these minstrels performed the unusual task of setting the laws in poetic form.
He modelled his compositions on lines to suit her artistic nature, and she threw herself ardently into the task of giving these works to the world.
I felt, however, that such a step might have been misinterpreted both at home and abroad, and that it was my duty to cause you no embarrassment in carrying forward the great task in which you were then engaged.
Also he, with equal coolness, resigned himself to having his tasktaken out of hand and repaired to the side of his employers to rest.
He had returned sooner than was expected or desired, but could he relegate his own intelligent task to anybody else?
Much of the ground was so overrun with bushes and brambles that only hand-rakes were available, and to the more difficult task of these the lad did not aspire.
Behind him was Jim, rolling the treadmill part of the affair and as profoundly engrossed by the task in hand as by all he undertook.
Moistening his fingers he let the rising wind blow over them, then calmly resumed his task of nailing a board to a post in the cattle-shed still left standing beside the barn.
Yet, despite these evident restrictions which the requirements of his task imposed upon him, Professor Dowden has produced a work of extraordinary merit, a masterpiece indeed in its kind.
More than this, he had a large task before him in endeavoring to reconcile the traditional enmities of the tribes one against another.
Had he who received them been any less in earnest, the task assigned to him must have seemed appalling.
Stuart, of which I have three large cases in a cellar below this room, performed the task for me in exactly sixty-nine minutes.
His ideas were so chaotic that he felt himself to be incapable of approaching the task presented by the pile of papers lying upon his table.
This aroused the weary Orderly-Sergeants, who started upon the task of getting up the bone-wracked, aching-muscled men.
It has been a gigantic task for the leaders, who by dint of great planning and persuasion and earnest pleading have done as much as has been done.
The greatest task of life, as well as one of the sweetest, is in growing fine in grain, and big in size, and skilled in action.
In between the two sits the Church board engaging in the difficult task of trying to equalize the temperature.
He gives us the one rarest token of friendship, that is, a task to do for our Friend's sake.
We need as thorough organizing, as aggressive enthusiasm, and as intelligent planning for this great task which our Master has put into our hands.
It would be a stupendous, if not an impossible task for the few.
Now that is the sort of thing--an emergency--that is now on in this greattask of world-wide evangelization which Jesus has committed to our hands.
She turned night into day, reversing the whole habit of her life, and holding every other thing subject to her self-imposed task of love.
The undone work of the past adds greatly to the task of the present.
Did it ever do anything but add to the world's sum of evil, making God's task the heavier?
She intended to offer her remunerative work upon the Nursing News without saying anything about the real motive behind, trusting to gratitude to make her task the easier.
Her task was that of the eternal woman: to make a home: to cleanse the world of sin and sorrow, make it a kinder dwelling-place for the children that should come.
Joan found herself up against technical terms that rendered hertask difficult, but fortunately had brought a dictionary with her, and was able to make them understand one another.
The greater task remained: the Universe of mind, of soul.
As we carried on the former dispute with some degree of warmth, in order to accommodate matters it was universally agreed that we should have a part of the venison for supper, and the girls undertook the task with alacrity.
This task would have been more difficult but for our own recent calamity, which had humbled my wife's pride, and blunted it by more poignant afflictions.
First, she entreated that I would teach her one at least of the languages with which I was familiar--a task of whose extreme difficulty she had little idea.
The skill and science brought to bear on the task of breeding accomplish this and much more difficult operations with marvellous ease and certainty.
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.
To complete the first task more easily, I arrested the motion of the vessel till she rose only a few feet per minute.
This was a much simpler task than might have been supposed.
It was not only that those engaged in the same kind of labour quarrelled over the task assigned to each, whether allotted in proportion to his strength, or to the difficulty of his labour, or by lot equally to all.
The latter appeared to me the more delicate, difficult, and perhaps dangerous task of the two; and I resolved to defer it until after I had acquired some practical experience and dexterity in the control of my machinery.
In no country on Earth, except China, is this task half so severe as in Mars.
He will not fail me, poor little lad," he said; "but were I to be taken from him here his task would be ten times harder.
That his hardest work of government has been the task of governing himself.
Young lad," said the precentor, pursing his mouth and throwing out his chest, "it appears to me that this task is beyond thy years.
Roger, maybe, Roger, who could not do his own task without stealing from my wits!
But, try as he might, the bishop found his task very difficult.
Here Little John interposed, for Robin affected great ignorance in domestic matters, leaving the task of fleecing his guests to his expert dependents.
To record every Indian town which has been overturned in Paraguay, and the causes and periods of the fall of each, were a task of infinite time and labour.
I applied myself to the task without shrinking, and on the day of St. John the Evangelist commenced my travels, accompanied by forty Indians.
Proportioning the task to their age, their sex, and their strength, they are always employed, never oppressed with labour.
He commenced his great task of first liberating and then governing a nation, with all the advantages of this varied experience, in his forty-third year, an age at which the physical vigor is undiminished, and the intellect fully ripe.
The immense tracts of wild lands belonging to Lord Fairfax, in the valley of the Alleghany Mountains, had never been surveyed; he had formed a favorable estimate of the talents of young Washington, and intrusted the task to him.
No sooner had he accomplished this task than he was face to face with the sanguinary madness of the Commune.
Time proved this to be a more difficult taskthan meeting an open enemy on the field of battle.
The task which he had undertaken was not an easy one.
The four bitterly complained that their task had been made more difficult by the hostility of persons who held office in Ireland, and by the secret influence of great men who were interested in concealing the truth.
His task had been well performed; and he now came back, leaving behind him the reputation of an excellent minister, firm yet cautious as to substance, dignified yet conciliating in manner.
But there was one task for which the new minister was admirably qualified, that of establishing, by means of superstitious terror, an absolute dominion over a feeble mind; and the feeblest of all minds was that of his unhappy sovereign.
The first wild, triumphant burst over, the elements seemed to have settled down to their task with a quiet, brooding patience, an immense persistence of unalterable purpose.
The first glance told him the magnitude of the task ahead; for the little recess in the canes had all the signs of cool and determined occupation.
When driven he will travel, but stiffly, with a sort of sidelong gait between the shafts, and after finishing his task and resting again in his stall will pose with the toe pointing forward, the heel raised, and the hock flexed.
To describe this operation in words that would make it comprehensible to the general reader is a more difficult task than performing the operation, which, in the hands of the expert, is simple and attended with little danger.
The task you propose Is not so easy as you suppose, but I will make the attempt, and perhaps I may succeed.
The Scarecrow needs patting into shape, too, for he had a bad tumble, but our first task is to get over this ditch.
Woot and Polychrome did this and it was no easy task because the hay packed together more than straw and as they had little experience in such work their job, when completed, left the Scarecrow's arms and legs rather bunchy.
The task of getting this well done requires, perhaps, as much skill and force of character as all previous work of oral instruction.
The length of the taskis increased as the eye becomes trained to this kind of work.
As each child finishes the task assigned, he raises his eyes from the book, showing by this act that he is ready to tell what he has just read.
The task of holding together such wriggling varieties of mental force and mental inertia is great.
If he were an expert in all directions, the task would be easier, but he has only vague knowledge and scarcely any skill.
The book, in narrating a story, cannot set problems, or, if it does, it forthwith assumes the task of solving them.
The imagination is compelled to limit itself to the task of combining and adjusting real things.
Amongst the rest Mackenzie takes one, the only one that ever any of his family had and this is rather a mark of his fidelity than evidence of failure, and an honour, not a task of his posterity.
Meanwhile, the task of the 74th Division was to swing forward, with their left resting and pivoting on Neby Samwil, to capture Beit Iksa village and works, and so to swing forward to the Nablus road.
There should have been squabbles about how the task was to be divided up, bitter arguments about how much money was to be spent by whom, violent disagreements about research-and-development contracts.
To Holmes, the task was fascinating because it was a ship he was building.
The task required the workmanship of a jeweller and the patience of Job.
Bob, of course, had plunged in unwittingly, while Dick's only thought was to help one from whom he had received such unexpected kindness; the lad not having reflected for an instant on the danger of the task he was undertaking.
And down the Amazon sallied to perform the task herself, while her helpmate, more jealous of insurrection within doors than of storm from without, went from cell to cell to see that the inhabitants of each were carefully secured.
