What is "taskmasters"

Usage examples of "taskmasters".

With this new mouthpiece and earpiece among her taskmasters, Phage would know everything.

She watched slaves and taskmasters march in gangs from the tent city to the work site.

The taskmasters would not fear to talk with her, and Zagorka would not fear to talk with Phage.

Hisses and boos greeted the taskmasters, but they only whirled their whips more viciously.

It was a perfect moment: blue sky above, red sands below, taskmasters behind, and slaves before.

As it is extremely onerous, and is soon going to be impossible, for me to keep up the wide range of correspondence which has become a large part of my occupation, and tends to absorb all the vital force which is left me, I wish to enter into a final explanation with the well-meaning but merciless taskmasters who have now for many years been levying their daily tax upon me.