Literature was for him no parergon, no mere way of escape from politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imperfect Critics] Reference

What a man looks upon as a parergon, a thing by the by, he does not much mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord's Prayer] Reference

But that was a mere parergon; to secure Richard Mutimer was the great end steadily held in view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino] Reference

Concerned above all else that their names should appear in the Book of Life, the brothers were to consider the making of gold as unimportant-although for the true philosophers (Occultists) this was an easy matter and a parergon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

This, when once judged satisfactory, procured him ordination; and his grammar-learning, in the good times of priesthood, was very much of a parergon with him, as indeed in all times it is intrinsically quite insignificant in comparison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latter-Day Pamphlets] Reference

And, by way of a parergon observation, how terrible, most terrible, to the guilty soul must be the solitary silent system now so popular among those cold legislative schemers, who have ground the poor man to starvation, and would hunt the criminal to madness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference

But since tradition offered to them a conception of a supernaturally renewed Empire, which they did not renounce the hope of realising on earth, they conceived an almost invincible mistrust of the ‘parergon,’ which the Roman Bishop held out and for which he strove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine] Reference

'liber parergon,' i., but it is not certain whether this is an independent work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

"amount to nothing more imposing than opuscula, one of them a parergon or, as the Anglo-Saxon fanatics would say, a by-work.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference

"A parergon, if you please.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Night] Reference