by-work
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of by-work
Example Sentences
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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 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
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
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
One characteristic example of this by-work must suffice.
From Dante Six Sermons by Wicksteed, Philip H.
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