1 It was in the early morning stillness, when his muscles were swinging to their familiar task and his lungs expanding with long draughts of mountain air, that Ethan did his clearest thinking.
2 Then the girl had returned to her task of clearing up the kitchen for the night and he had taken his lantern and gone on his usual round outside the house.
3 Mattie, when the meal was over, went about her usual task of clearing the table and washing up the dishes.
4 He went about his task without knowing what force directed him, or whose hands and feet were fulfilling its orders.
5 Ellen set dozens of little black boys to this task, the first position of responsibility a male slave had at Tara.
6 The demands of the Confederate commissary were growing heavier by the month, and hers was the task of making Tara produce.
7 Replacing the fences the Yankees had so blithely burned was a long hard task.
8 Everything was a long hard task, she thought wearily, and she was tired of it, tired and mad and sick of it all.
9 He knew, he understood and her task was miraculously made easy.
10 It seemed wonderful to him that any one should perform with such careless ease the difficult task of making tea in public in a lurching train.
11 But Miss Bart, it appeared, really did want to know about Americana; and moreover, she was already sufficiently informed to make the task of farther instruction as easy as it was agreeable.
12 She settled herself at the desk, and Mrs. Trenor accepted her resumption of the morning's task with a sigh which implied that, after all, she had proved herself unfit for higher uses.
13 Thus far, then, Lily felt that she had done well; and the conviction strengthened her for the task that remained.
14 She understood well enough the nature of the task before her.
15 The task was not an easy one; but neither was it easy, in her long sleepless nights, to face the thought of what George Dorset was so clearly ready to offer.