by-work

Some prig with Him about their time, and will make religion but their by-work.

The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony Thomas Houston

In October they returned and settled in a house of their own, at 31, Park Street, where during the winter he wrote “The Seven Lamps of Architecture,” and, as a bit of by-work, a notice of Samuel Prout for the Art Journal.

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

In October they returned and settled in a house of their own, at 31, Park Street, where during the winter he wrote "The Seven Lamps of Architecture," and, as a bit of by-work, a notice of Samuel Prout for the _Art Journal.

The Life of John Ruskin 1893

It should be noted, however, that the Valentinian, Ptolemy, ascribes freedom of will to the psychic (which the pneumatic and hylic lack), and therefore has sketched by way of by-work a theology for the psychical beside that for the pneumatic, which exhibits striking harmonies with the exoteric system of Origen.

History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

These passages do not perhaps exhibit the by-work and the process in the conspicuous skeleton-clock fashion which their critics admire and desire, but they contain an amount of acute and profound exploration of human nature which it would be difficult to match and impossible to surpass elsewhere: while the results of Fielding's working, of his

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

Voltaire avowedly never attempts ordinary representation of ordinary life -- save as the merest by-work, it is all "purpose," satire, fancy.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

I prefer Italy to England, but as by way of parergon, or by-work, as every man should have both his profession and his hobby.

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 1881

Some prig with Him about their time, and will make religion but their by-work.

The Life of James Renwick Houston, Thomas 1865

The magnificence of the structure, and its completeness according to the model of the world, is to him useless by-work, superfluous and even dangerous luxury.

Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

The law, if he did not like it, was yet no by-work with him; he was as truly ambitious as the men with whom he maintained so keen and for long so unsuccessful a rivalry.

Bacon John Morley 1852