So she takes upon herself the menial task of a gleaner.

That menial task was hardly worth ending someone's career over.

Such a menial task is usually reserved for a flunkey.

Those exquisite hands shall never perform a single menial task!

Wiktor never tended the fire, as if it were understood such a menial task was beneath him.

Shall I get down to menial task?

The girl refused to perform the menial task, until the widow lost patience and drove her to it.

As it happens, his next-door neighbor sees Abu Kassim digging, a menial task fit only for a servant.

Possibly, too, they had been disputing as to whose office was the menial task of presenting the basin for foot-washing.

Enter trustee, Amanda Jones (Cox), a larger-than-life ex-con completing her prison sentence doing menial task for the police department.

He had arranged to perform this menial task in a remote corner of the store, as much out of sight as possible.

He can't get about normally, but he drives the car and helps in the kitchen and does every sort of menial task.

Others work away at some menial task more or less connected with the Crucifixion, as unconcerned as cobblers humming over their last.

I told Jost not to come, so he can go about what ever menial task he's concocted as an excuse to see me.

After breakfast she calls me upstairs, where I assume she will assign me some menial task-rippingout a seam, basting stays into place.

To be forced into a menial task like this wasn't just boring, it humiliated Jaxim publicly while costing him money and stalling his studies.