taskmaster

The words came in quick, gasping breaths, as a child might speak who tried to justify himself to his taskmaster.

Blessed is the man who can have his library at hand, and oft peruse the books, without the fear of a taskmaster!

It was as though Pharaoh had sent an embassy to Moses offering to make him a taskmaster if he would but return into Egypt.

Four summers ago Mike had resigned the "first gem of the sea" in order to assist in making hay for a Saxon taskmaster.