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They probably would have broken out of prison by now Taskmaster's already been showing up in plenty of places.
CIVIL WAAAAH! Marvel Comics, 2007 David Campbell 2007
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Without any pretensions to religious excellence, from the time he first was brought under the observation of the nation he seemed, like Milton, to have walked 'as ever in his great Taskmaster's eye.'
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913
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_Nativity Ode_ and the sonnet of the "great Taskmaster's eye" before he was much past twenty, did not mean to hold up a drunken sensualist like
Milton John Cann Bailey 1897
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There was a time, "in the days that were earlier," when the writing of a book was a rare and solemn task, to be approached -- like the writing of "Paradise Lost" -- after years of devout and arduous preparation, under the "great Taskmaster's eye."
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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“As ever in his great Taskmaster's eye,” as in the ever-present sense of divine companionship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891
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For, in morality, we do not say either that the individual is absolutely evil, because his actions never realize the supreme ideal of goodness; nor, that he is at the last term of development, and "taking the place of God," because he lives as "ever in his great Taskmaster's eye."
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887
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Nor had he that awful sense which no humanism could extinguish in Milton, of service as 'ever in the great Taskmaster's eye.'
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs John Morley 1880
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The thought is too vague, too far, to bring comfort and refreshment to the mass of travailing men, or to invest duty with the stern ennobling quality of being done, "if I have grace to use it so as ever in the great Taskmaster's eye."
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880
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It is the fact that they sought truth and ensued it, not thinking of the practicable nor cautiously counting majorities and minorities, but each man pondering and searching so 'as ever in the great Taskmaster's eye.'
On Compromise John Morley 1880
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Without any pretensions to religious excellence, from the time he first was brought under the observation of the nation he seemed, like Milton, to have walked 'as ever in his great Taskmaster's eye.'
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