awork

Someone is going to chime in with the difference between a work for hire and awork.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ethics of Writing Samples: 2007

When you shall hear and see so many discontented persons in all places where you come, so many several grievances, unnecessary complaints, fears, suspicions, [1554] the best means to redress it is to set them awork, so to busy their minds; for the truth is, they are idle.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Someone is going to chime in with the difference between a work for hire and awork.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ethics of Writing Samples: 2007

Or to set them awork, and bring them up in some honest trades.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Even more basic – and this has been touched on – is that Stefan-Boltzman doenst even awork SB is valid for blackbodies or graybodies, with equivalent emissions at all wavelengths.

Monbiot v Monckton « Climate Audit 2006

Neither him nor them, answered Pantagruel; only open up the leaves of the book with your fingers, and set your nails awork.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Neither him nor them, answered Pantagruel; only open up the leaves of the book with your fingers, and set your nails awork.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people awork.

2 Chronicles 2. 1999

Nor they do not set drudges and slaves awork about it.

The Second Book. Of Warfare 1909

For a little while he sat so, his mouth awork with passion; then he sank back in his chair with a sigh.

The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904