Briefly, he had gotten out of his boyhood assignments of washing bowls in tubs, being the seamstress attaching jasmine flowers into rosaries from a long, thick needle, selling them on the streets in the traffic, and then returning to wash more bowls.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
When a man has been hanging around the world in a bored way for thirty-two years, just waiting for Fate to catch up with its assignments and trundle you along within my range in order to give the sun a rest- Oh, well-if you forgive me of course I'll stop anything you say.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
In spite of the complaints that come into this office in regard to your cavalier tactics in carrying out your assignments, you and your team are our most competent operatives.
"Border, Breed Nor Birth"
Dallas McCord Reynolds