by-work
Americannoun
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Origin of by-work
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The law, if he did not like it, was yet no by-work with him; he was as truly ambitious as the men with whom he maintained so keen and for long so unsuccessful a rivalry.
From Bacon by John Morley
He has had some learning indeed; but then all that solid by-work, such as is requisite for a Privy Counsellor, of that he never was possessed; and so sit down to work.
From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Augustus William Iffland
Voltaire avowedly never attempts ordinary representation of ordinary life—save as the merest by-work, it is all "purpose," satire, fancy.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
Avocation, vocation.—"Vocation means 'calling' or 'profession'; avocation, 'something aside from one's regular calling, a by-work.'"
From Practical Exercises in English by Huber Gray Buehler
One characteristic example of this by-work must suffice.
From Dante Six Sermons by Philip H. Wicksteed
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