The tray was consigned to an able-bodied casual who took his place with the taskmaster at the shed door, and then in single file we re-entered the shed, each man and boy receiving a slice as he passed in.
We were no sooner set to work than the taskmaster left us to our own sweet will, with nothing to restrain its exercise but an occasional visit from the miller, a weakly expostulating man.
No one had hinted that it was not forthcoming, but skilley seems to be thought an extraordinary concession, and after waiting only a few minutes for it they attacked the taskmaster in the fiercest manner.
This made him somewhat uneasy, for he knew that at night he must carry home a satisfactory sum to the padrone, or he would be brutally beaten; and poor Phil knew from sad experience that this hard taskmaster had no mercy in such cases.
The idea that his oppressive taskmaster should be punished for his cruelty had never dawned upon him.
She felt a little uneasy for his sake as she knew how angry his taskmaster would be with him.
Neither did he see his hard taskmaster watching him in the distance.
Ill-treated and cuffed by the stern black taskmaster whose duty it was to see that I performed the work allotted to me, I felt many times inclined to regard escape as utterly hopeless.
He never knew that the President suggested stopping a moment to congratulate him, and that it was his own old taskmaster Spate who ventured to say that the President could meet him later.
Here he was, returned rich and powerful, to patronize the taskmaster who had worked him hard and paid him harder in the old years.
But as soon as the taskmaster has departed, even a pretence of work ceases.
You think me a hard-hearted taskmaster of a brother.
Gladys cared more for Eric's little finger than the whole of us put together; she looks upon me as his destroyer, as a hard taskmaster who oppressed him and drove him out of his home.
He is no severe taskmaster demanding bricks out of stubble; He knows poor labouring people are often tired, and out of heart.
There is nothing of the taskmaster in the Psalmist's conception of God; he does not indeed call Him the Father in Heaven, but that term would more truly express his thought than any phrase of bondage and compulsion.
That the Pharisee thought of God only, or even mainly, as distant and inaccessible, or as a taskmaster whose service was hard, is a baseless fiction.
That within him that set itself to make thin cloud of the taskmaster pulled him back as by the hair of the head and cast him down upon the rocky floor.
But the taskmaster now would have it up at all hours, fashioning reasons and justifications.
But when the sun set she claimed her freedom; and her taskmaster did not dare to say her nay.
God is no longer the taskmaster over against men, with His threats and His terrors.
The sum of it all is that God is not our taskmaster and critical judge.
I have received naught which was not intended for me," the taskmaster replied warmly.
Aye, holy Father; this message to the taskmaster over Pa-Ramesu.
Greeting," thetaskmaster replied, after he had inspected the white-browed servant.
Even the eyes of the taskmaster were intolerable, in her shame.
His next move was to bring to the notice of the Pharaoh that the taskmaster Atsu was pampering the Israelites of Masaarah and defeating the ends of the government.
Great and sincere and beyond expression was his amazement and his joy when a taskmastercalled him from the canal-bed one day and informed him that he was free.
After the old man had been fed and given such other comfort as the soldier's house afforded, the taskmaster returned.
And of all the departing numbers and of all that remained behind, none was more stricken in heart than Atsu, the stern taskmaster over Israel.
The one which I should have brought to thine august master, hath gone to the taskmasterover Pa-Ramesu.
Christians have been credulous and superstitious, have argued and acted as if only in {14} the abnormal and exceptional could the Divine Presence be found, as if God were a hard Taskmaster and capricious Tyrant.
She escapes from a Managerial Taskmaster and takes Refuge in Paris.
Poor Mrs. Hildreth, so utterly unable to take life easily, was something of a taskmaster like her husband.
Crouch now came at the taskmaster “with fury in his looks;” upon which the latter drew his cutlass and warned him to stand off, and then both Crouch and Salmon were secured.
One day when he was en route to the dark cells, intending to pardon a culprit therein confined, the taskmaster who accompanied him voluntarily observed, “You are quite right to release him, sir.
At the tower he found the taskmaster coming out cutlass in hand; Rogan, the warder, got one also, and both hurried back to the yard.
Assistance soon arrived—the taskmaster followed by two others, who met first Morris and King as they were returning to their cells.
Late in life he had taken into partnership his nephew Tappitt, and during his life had been a severe taskmaster to his partner.
It must, however, be acknowledged that Mrs. Prime was a harder taskmaster than Dorothea Ray had been, and that the mother might have undergone a gentler ruling had the daughter never become a wife.
She looked up to see the taskmaster standing above her.
The taskmaster does not now interfere with him as he was wont to do when he first arrived.
Yonder old man carrying the block of stone which might tax the energies of a stout youth, and to whom a taskmaster has just administered a cut with the driving-whip, looks like one who has seen better days.
Egypt will come with her gifts, and although the Messiah will at first refuse to accept anything from the former taskmaster of Israel, God will say to him: "The Egyptians granted My children an abode in their land, do not repulse them.
After Egypt will follow her neighbor, Ethiopia, with her gifts, thinking that if the Messiah accepted gifts from the former taskmasterof Israel, he will also accept gifts from her.
He's the Latin taskmaster and maybe that's why I hate it so.
At this moment an Egyptian taskmaster entered, and with his rod struck the venerable man several sharp blows and ordered him to rise and go to his task.
The taskmaster took the money with a smile of gratification, and at once left the court of the fountain.
He looked up, and spied an Egyptian taskmaster dragging by the hair Izhur, a youth whom he greatly loved.
Whenever the Egyptian taskmaster set over her husband came to their house on business connected with his office, she would approach him pleasantly and enter into conversation with him.
Vexed that his crime had come to the knowledge of the injured husband, the taskmaster goaded him on to work with excessive vigor, and dealt him blow after blow with the intention to kill him.
