I am ready to exercise my faith; but you are Tasking, not my faith, but my knowledge of language.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke
He withdrew her attention completely from all that was around her, and without Tasking it; she could not have borne that.
"Queechy, Volume II"
Elizabeth Wetherell
But he is by no means fond of gratuitously Tasking his strength; and food being so abundant that he obtains it without an effort, it is not altogether apparent, even were he able to do so, why he should assail "the largest trees in the forest," and encumber his own haunts with their broken stems; especially as there is scarcely anything which an elephant dislikes more than venturing amongst fallen timber.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent