At four- teen the master's son was given his own slave, the prettiest black woman of eighteen on the plantation, and it became her pleasurable task to introduce the lad into an essential meaning of slavery.

This will give me the pleasurable task of transcribing sections of two Zep tracks from the all-time classic album 'Led Zeppelin II'.

Third Time Isn't a Charm Facing Langston was not a real pleasurable task for the Yanks.

"Looking back," he continues, with the plangent satisfaction of a man for whom crossing his "t's" is both a pleasurable task and an absurdist exercise, "that's probably the beginning of everything we're doing now."

A cylinder mower is primarily for "serious" greensward, where the aim is emerald-green, weed-free stripes, and where regular fettling with a spanner and annual trips to the blade sharpeners are pleasurable seasonal tasks, rather than grimly observed chores.

She had never been a patient person, but even she had to acknowledge that at the moment her efforts were best directed at more important and less pleasurable tasks.

It was no longer an enforced labor, a revolting exercise to be gotten through ... but a labor of love, a pleasurable task she wanted and needed ... for it was beginning to awaken her own sexually starved body.

It will be a pleasurable task that I shall personally supervise.

And then we ate, a pleasurable task ideally suited to the human machine.

'Modern mattress,' he told her before proceeding with the more pleasurable task of nibbling her ear.