You have called this a return to proper work.

I want a job of some kind, proper work!

Then he would have breakfast in the mess and start his proper work on time at nine.

He could smell a factory and tell if it was doing proper work or not.

What that girl needs is some proper work and a real home.

If you make college too comfortable nobody will ever want to leave it to do proper work.

I've done quite a bit of reading up on the area; now I need to get down to some proper work.

This is the proper work for man and I think you could find it.

Get back to your proper work and leave me to my rest.

The virtue of a thing is relative to its proper work.