At last, after she had ceased to expect it, came a letter from his mother, not a brief note, but a letter which the invalid had evidently Tasked herself to make long and full, in recognition of Alice's kindness in writing to her so much.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
The girls of the household were patriots, in whom zeal often overran discretion, and the pranks they played on the British officers must sometimes have Tasked the gentlemen in the latter to a point on the limits of endurance.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman
I suppose I Tasked my eyes too severely.
"Herbert Carter's Legacy"
Horatio Alger