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Sentences ending with duties
- Gaston was kind with him, keeping, however, a firm hand till his manner had become informed by the new duties. [11]
- The detail labor will, of course, have to be done by others; but I will be greatly obliged if you will give it such general supervision as you can find consistent with your more strictly military duties. [7]
- The last few weeks had claimed his entire time and strength so rigidly and urgently that he would have been compelled to refuse Barbara's demands upon his love or neglect serious duties. [10]
- But some time was to elapse ere he could execute this praiseworthy intention; for before he could cross the threshold the landlord of The Pike appeared, berated him, and ordered him to be more civil in the performance of his duties. [10]
- That would be wandering too far, from his subject, which, it will be recalled, was civic duties. [9]
- Is it not true that the young man of average ability will find it as much as he can do to fit himself for these simple duties? [3]
- She was attentive to her grandfather; exact with her household duties. [11]
- She watched him till he entered the Notary's shop, then she was called away to her duties. [11]
- Perhaps, I often think, she was too angelically innocent to have the strength to perform all a mother's duties. [2]
- It being Lent, there might be a chance to catch her neglecting some detail of her religious duties. [5]
Short sentences using duties
- More important duties. [10]
Sentences containing duties two or more times
- It is to be noticed that rights are mentioned, but not duties, and that if political rights only are meant, political duties are not inculcated as of equal moment. [4]
More example sentences with the word duties in them
- Don't you know your duties better? [11]
- I have not yet been released from the duties I undertook there, and it will be more worthy of us both that Asclepiodorus should give you the daughter of Philotas as your wife than that you should be married to a runaway serving-maid of Serapis. [10]
- Thirty or forty years more carry you to the time when this incumbent began the duties of his office; his hand was steady then; and the next volume beyond it in date betrays the work of a still different writer. [6]
- Her duties connected with the household linen and the poultry yard, its owner's pride, were so easily performed, that in her leisure hours she often voluntarily helped the housekeeper. [10]
- I may speak with less restraint of those gentlemen who have aided me in the most laborious part of my daily duties, the Demonstrators, to whom the successive classes have owed so much of their instruction. [3]
- The world shortage will, for years to come, make import duties look both oppressive and ridiculous. [9]
- I hope you will regard the other duties claiming my attention, together with the great length and importance of these documents, as constituting a sufficient apology for not having responded sooner. [7]
- You see, your whole nature is pure kindness, but you are still too young and innocent quite to understand all the duties of that omnipotent love which beareth and endureth all things. [10]
- Like my fathers, who have enjoyed the stewardship of it for centuries, I know how to exercise the sacred duties of hospitality. [10]
- Prince Siptah, too, who had interfered with the duties of his office, he loudly cursed. [10]
- The manner in which she combines the highest mental culture with the nicest discharge of feminine duties filled me with admiration; while her affectionate kindness earned my gratitude. [14]
- If the spirit which imbued the founders of this nation means anything, Mr. Bass, it means that the able men who are given a chance to rise by their own efforts must still retain the duties and responsibilities of the humblest citizens. [9]
- The school never went on more smoothly than during the first period of his administration, after he had arranged its duties, and taken his share, and even more than his share, upon himself. [6]
- I know you well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes duties on you, and you must be a man. [2]
- The widow herself was obliged to be at her post in the factory, for her duties as overseer made her presence indispensable in the work-room. [10]
- The young officer was evidently exercising his duties for the first or second time and therefore treated both his superiors and the men with great precision and formality. [2]
- And yet there was a period during which he pursued his shrunken duties as though nothing had happened to him; as a man who has been struck in battle keeps on, loath to examine, to acknowledge the gravity of his wound; fearing to, perhaps. [9]
- And would have voted the duties ten times over had our rights been respected. [9]
- Besides the plunderers, very various people, some drawn by curiosity, some by official duties, some by self-interest--house owners, clergy, officials of all kinds, tradesmen, artisans, and peasants--streamed into Moscow as blood flows to the heart. [2]
- Barop, though usually very strict in the observance of religious duties, never demanded anything for the sake of mere appearances. [10]
- He led a very pleasant life there, tempering his college duties with the literature he loved, and receiving his friends amidst elegant surroundings, which added to the charm of his society. [6]
- Austen had never verbally arraigned those duties until to-night. [9]
- The duties imposed upon him by the service compelled him to live apart from his beloved, young, and beautiful wife, Dona Magdalena de Ulloa, who had remained at his castle Villagarcia in Spain. [10]
- We will take up their duties there. [9]
- These gentlemen, I understand, entered upon the duties designated at the times respectively stated in the schedule, and have labored faithfully therein ever since. [7]
- Now he said, turning to the priests from Chennu-- "Gagabu is a foolish, hot-headed old man, and you have heard from his lips just such a sermon as the young scribes keep by them when they enter on the duties of the care of souls. [10]
- The countess in turn, without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. [2]
- Now, it is true, grave duties must have summoned the statesman back to Rome, but he tarried three full months longer. [10]
- He had become troubled with doubts respecting a portion of his duties, and it was not in his nature to conceal these doubts from his people. [6]
- He was continually traveling through the three provinces entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe to cruelty with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the minutest details himself. [2]
- Then, if the transformation does not come, they seem to think their cares and duties are at an end, and, considering their theories of human destiny, usually accept the situation with wonderful complacency. [6]
- My own duties took me to the dark lower deck, a vile place indeed, and reeking with the smell of tar and stale victuals. [9]
- After the Colonel took his leave, the General talked a while with Washington--his talk consisting chiefly of instructions about the clerical duties of the place. [5]
- It is as to whether, and how far, duties on imports shall be adjusted to favor home production in the home market, that controversy begins. [7]
- In my devotion to the duties of government and the chase, I have not yet wholly forgotten enthusiasm. [10]
- She was happy to show her gratitude to the kind schoolmaster by busying herself in the performance of such household duties as his little cottage stood in need of. [12]
- It is pleasant to say that the young man, though favored by nature with this rarest of talents, did not forget the humbler duties that Heaven, which dresses few singing-birds in the golden plumes of fortune, had laid upon him. [6]
- I therefore have to request that you will resume the duties of your departments respectively. [7]
- Els was glad to know that she was occupied; it was better that her sister should be spared many of the duties which she was obliged to perform. [10]
- She was dearer to him than all the rest of the world; and he had in his hand what kept them apart--a sentence of death, unless he escaped from the wanton calling him to fulfil duties into which he had been tricked. [11]
- She had learned to go her own way, and sought and found arduous duties in the service of the city and the poor. [10]
- Joshua's frame, inured to fatigues of every kind, resisted the tortures of this hurried march; but his weaker companion, who had grown grey in a scribe's duties, often gave way and at last lay prostrate beside him. [10]
- He was resolved to enter upon no duties that would interfere with his literary pursuits. [4]
- Instead of taking to classical learning like her father, or sliding quietly into household duties like her mother, she broke out early in efforts that pointed in the direction of Art. [6]
- There he expects to be free from time-killing business, and to grant his mind that which he has long desired and a thousand duties forced him to withhold. [10]
- Yet, all the time, Roscoe was abundantly faithful to his duties at Viking and in the settlement called Sunburst, which was devoted to salmon- fishing. [11]
- At the same time, he devoted himself zealously to the duties of his department, and did the country arduous service under circumstances of extreme difficulty. [7]
- For the first time in eighteen months he was alone with his old quiet duties and recreations. [11]
- Now I suppose this matter of tonnage duties is well enough in its own sphere. [7]
- This is the thirty-sixth Course of Lectures in which I have taken my place and performed my duties as Professor of Anatomy. [3]
- At any rate, they undertake the lighter menial duties of some household where they are not known, and, having stooped--if stooping it is to be considered--to lowly offices, no born and bred servants are more faithful to all their obligations. [6]
- And nobly do they climb up to the duties of their position. [4]
- The number of these persons is so great that if they were suffered to indulge their prejudice against every-day duties and labors, it would be a serious loss to the productive industry of the country. [6]
- Everybody dropped in there after five o'clock, when the duties of the day were over, with the latest news, and to catch breath before rushing into the program of the evening. [4]
- Their duties carry them into the midst of families, and particularly at times when the members of them are suffering from bodily illness. [6]
- They keep all their appointments, and fulfil all their duties just as if they didn't know anything about art. [8]
- This, and patrolling the Wilderness Road and other militia duties, made up Tom's life. [9]
- Thus he presented the singular spectacle of a President who, in the midst of a great civil war, with unprecedented duties weighing upon him, was constantly in person debating the great features of his policy with the people. [7]
- Some hold that the purpose is to enable a woman to dispense with marriage, while others maintain that it is to fit a woman for the higher duties of the married life. [4]
- J. R. Diller, the present incumbent, I cannot say has failed in the proper discharge of any of the duties of the office. [7]
- I knew, numbering the order of his duties, that he could have but a very short time to spare for gossip at this juncture, yet I said that I could not join them for half an hour or so. [11]
- The duties which the minister had to perform were unusual, delicate, and difficult; but I believe he acquitted himself of them with the skill of a born diplomatist. [4]
- It is not the men whose duties have made them familiar with this class of subjects who are most likely to offend by scenes and descriptions which belong to the physician's private library, and not to the shelves devoted to polite literature. [6]
- When Eva assented, the lady remarked that members of this brotherhood had rarely come to her castle; but Biberli said that they were quiet, devout men who, content with the alms they begged, preached, and performed other religious duties. [10]
- I suppose that the education to produce these must be an elemental and practical one, one that fits for the duties of life and not for some imaginary sphere above them. [4]
- Jane entered upon the duties of that day with a settled, gloomy calm. [13]
- Looking out from the doorway of his home (it was the night after the Orange funeral), Gabriel Druse, returned from his new duties at Lebanon, saw no light in the Indian reservation. [11]
- The captain adds the doctorship to his own duties. [5]
- And this, with the addition of the fact that he was painstaking and methodical in his duties, and that his sermons were orthodox in the sense that they were extremely non-committal, was all that Hodder knew about him for many months. [9]
- It was suggested that the most dangerous of the convicts should be fettered together in pairs to perform their duties. [10]
- The fact is that people in any relations incur mutual obligations, and the world cannot go on without a recognition of duties as well as rights. [4]
- I cannot say that Mr. Herndon, the present incumbent, has failed in the proper discharge of any of the duties of the office. [7]
- Greenock's reply was that it was his duty to stay, if the ship was going to remain at sea, for no one else could perform his duties or do his work. [11]
- You could never take time from your great duties to accept the invitations of our literary committee, alas! [9]
- A few moments sufficed for the morning's simple camp duties. [13]
- The example of such devotion to civic duties in one whose days have already been extended an average lifetime beyond the Psalmist's limit, cannot but be valuable and fruitful. [7]
- Meanwhile, I have some duties with our officers here. [11]
- Not even the smallest affair was settled without their intervention, on account of the duties demanded by the Republic. [10]
- He could not sleep nor eat, and went about his duties like one in a dream. [11]
- On its social side it had not fulfilled all the expectations which Fulkerson's radiant sketch of its duties and relations had caused him to form of it. [8]
- During the weeks she came and went between the little house and the little school, putting all the strength that was in her into her duties. [9]
- Oh, no, I shall never pay any duties on pirated books of mine. [5]
- Perhaps a false sense of pride restrained me, but my duties held me all day in the field, and often into the night when there was curing to be done, or some other matters of necessity. [9]
- These maidens, Asclepiodorus says, are now too old and ugly for these duties, but the temple is bound to maintain them all their lives. [10]
- I need not say that the real education is that which will best fit a man for performing well his duties in life. [4]
- But her mother saw clearly enough her struggle with infirmity, and was not deceived by either her gaiety or by the cheerful composure which she carried into all the ordinary duties that fell to her. [5]
- I have already said he has done the duties of the office well, and I now add he is a gentleman in the true sense. [7]
- If I be right in this, how could we make any entirely new improvement by means of tonnage duties? [7]
- And having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. [2]
- In silence Hannah resumed her shrunken duties, and when these were finished sat awhile, before going to bed, her hands lying listless in her lap. [9]
- No more haggard responsibility to keep him awake nights,--unless he prefers to retain his hold on offices and duties from which he can be excused if he chooses. [6]
- He saw life's responsibilities clearer, duties swam grandly before him. [11]
- And let us remember that our duties to our brethren do not cease when they become unable to share our toils, or leave behind them in want and woe those whom their labor had supported. [3]
- The body-servant's position relieved him of such humble duties, still, when on the chase, when travelling, or as need arose, he was accustomed to perform them unasked, and very willingly. [10]
- None of the regular officers of the Ariadne were left upon her, except Greenock, the master of the ship, whose rank was below that of lieutenant, and whose duties were many and varied under the orders of the captain. [11]
- That day I received a letter from my benefactor in which he wrote about "conjugal duties. [2]
- A king who really knows his duties, finds it an easy and beautiful task to win the love of the people--an unthankful one to gain the applause of the great--almost an impossibility to content both. [10]
- To hear it read by a hardy man, whose life is among stern duties, is to receive a new impression. [11]
- Therefore I will put my other duties aside for a moment and undertake this helpful service. [5]
- He desires to pursue in detail the vast new discoveries of the astronomers, which even amid the pressure of duties he had explained to him. [10]
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