"After all, you are undertaking the lowly task of cooking, which I would dread to attempt."

But the direct, wholesale adaptation of a play suggests a rather lowly task, comparable to the "novelization" of a movie.

The Sleen had taken the Hobarts to serve as boys, performing lowly tasks and doing such things as watching kaiila.

He was ordained as a priest (much against his will) and as superior, performed the lowliest tasks in the monastic community.

It seems a lowly task, but it is just as important as that of the pinnacle.

It was his first command, and he tried to hide his disappointment at being offered such a lowly task.

I know you've said many times that you don't mind doing such a lowly task, but I feel I should keep thanking you.

He'd begun as an apprentice, doing even more lowly tasks.

For some of those on workfare, of course, such lowly tasks may be the best they can ever manage.

Larry Donovan had been an arrogant train conductor who felt himself above such lowly tasks as making the passengers comfortable.