Meanings of interrupted task in English

She laughed out the three exultant words and hurried back to some interrupted task.

His mind functioning subconsciously, he took up his interrupted task of driving them to pasture.

The poet had been lost in the metaphysician, and he took up his interrupted task without inspiration, putting force upon himself.

Mrs. Amberley made a move to follow her daughter, then thought better of it, and, instead, resumed the interrupted task of filling her hypodermic syringe.