by-work
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of by-work
Example Sentences
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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 Saintsbury, George
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 Iffland, Augustus William
Like scholars, in addition to her professional or livelihood-study, she devotes herself to an extra-study and by-work and does, in connection with every piece of work, those that lie adjacent to it.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
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 Morley, John
One might have supposed that his poetry, great and extensive as it was, was a πάρεργον, a by-work, with him.
From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Whiting, Lilian
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