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  • On the subject of engagements, perhaps the following letter from Charles Lamb to Fanny Kelly, and her reply, will be of interest -- though the unarduous and somewhat prosaic tone of

    How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence Mary Owens Crowther

  • But in 1784, when Pitt was safely in power, Selwyn was appointed to the equally unarduous and lucrative post of Surveyor

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • Moreover [257] he saw that this treasure was to be achieved by means of a lad of mean birth, by name Alaeddin, who was of the city aforesaid, and that it was eath to take and unarduous: so he tarried not, but equipped himself forthright for the voyage to China, as we have said, and did that which he did with Alaeddin, thinking to come by the lamp.

    Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879

  • Depending on the subject matter, teaching a course or two can certainly be a well-remunerated, unarduous task on a par with "consulting."

    Anchor Rising 2010

  • It will all be so very unarduous, Lieutenant Sharpe.”

    Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

  • But in 1784, when Pitt was safely in power, Selwyn was appointed to the equally unarduous and lucrative post of Surveyor ” General of Crown Lands.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

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