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Sentences starting with duty

Duty was his tyrant, his oppressor. [10]
Duty summons me to my ship. [10]
Duty won in the struggle, and the Governor gave his word that he would not again respite the condemned man. [5]
Duty made it real. [9]
Duty is duty, much as I'd like to stay, and you givin' me the bid. [11]
Duty had commanded him to mount his steed, but how pale and haggard was his shrewd face, usually so animated! [10]
Duty now commanded her to execute vengeance, and the bold Hanno was ready to risk his life for her. [10]
Duty calls, and he must return from all the bliss of Paradise to the world again. [10]
Duty and prudence gained the upper hand, and she was just going to exclaim: "Tell him I cannot see him," when her eye caught the ribbon she had once embroidered for her handsome playfellow. [10]
Duty summoned him also, and what another risked for the King he would not fail to do for his friend. [10]

Sentences ending with duty

It was possible with this man to fully test one's respect for age, which is in all civilized nations a duty. [4]
The devoted daughter, wife, mother, whose life has been given to unselfish labors, who has filled a place which it seems to others only an angel would make good, reproaches herself with incompetence and neglect of duty. [6]
I shall keep watch, and try to do my duty. [7]
But now--now there was the old unschooled simplicity, the unique and lonely personality, the homely soul and body bending to one root-idea, losing themselves in a wave of duty. [11]
Standing still he was quite fit for duty. [11]
In April, Rostov was on orderly duty. [2]
Next morning he was faithfully at his duty. [10]
There was the Vicomte in his red robe, there was the sinister Undertaker's Apprentice, ready to do his hangman's duty. [11]
It was this very future that the woman of the world was using to raise in the mind of Irene a morbid sense of her duty. [4]
He was bent upon a higher duty. [11]

Short sentences using duty

Papaluka, Papaluka,--Emerald, perform thy duty! [10]
Wasn't that your plain duty? [11]
It was my plain duty. [9]
I thought it my duty. [9]
I have done my duty. [11]
My duty is here. [4]
What was her duty? [9]
Was that his duty? [11]
It's my obvious duty. [9]
This was a duty. [5]

Sentences containing duty two or more times

Dr. Mathys regretted this for the sake of the beautiful neglected creature, who had won his sympathy, but it did not surprise him, for duty after duty now filled every hour of Charles's day. [10]
So far, what they had done was a matter of duty, not of will; but they had done their duty naturally all their lives, and it was natural to them now. [11]
If this is the duty of a citizen, he had discharged it with singleness of purpose; but no other duty of the citizen had he undertaken, if we except his private charities. [4]
It seemed my plain duty to save him, and a still plainer and more important duty to get some sleep for myself, so at last I ventured to go to Mr. Lynch and tell him what was about to happen to him--under strict secrecy. [5]
If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. [7]
I had often met him when I was on duty to watch the laborers who were completing the great pillared hall, and he was respected by every one, and never failed in his duty. [10]
I believe that it is the duty of property to protect itself, and the duty of all good men in politics,--such as the senator here,"--(bow from Mr. Whitredge) to protect property. [9]
It is his image, in marble, standing on duty at the pilot wheel; and worthy to stand and confront criticism, for it represents a man who in life would have stayed there till he burned to a cinder, if duty required it. [5]
But duty was duty, though those two lads were more to each other than most men ever are. [11]
It was his duty, and it is every loyal man's duty to protect that heritage in every way he can; and the best way to do that is to attract attention elsewhere. [5]

More example sentences with the word duty in them

And this being your whole duty, return and report to me. [7]
It is not your duty, and you must not do it. [11]
Yet it is your duty to kill me. [11]
They are still young...." She bent her head and continued in a whisper: "Has he performed his final duty, Prince? [2]
For the mass, you have some right to speak; it is your duty perhaps; but the confession, that is another thing; that is the will of every soul to do or not to do. [11]
And, my dear, you have just to do your duty where you are placed, and that is all there is about it. [4]
All was not yet lost; and he breathed more freely as he went back to the house where duty, and his anxiety for his father, required his presence. [10]
She said she would wait awhile longer, but if at the end of six months I didn't do my duty, she'd see the thing through here among my own people. [11]
And these people would shortly understand, if they did not now understand, that Hugh had come back voluntarily and from a sense of duty to assume the burdens and responsibilities that so many of his generation and class had shirked. [9]
You know I would like to oblige you, but it seems to me my duty in this case is the other way. [7]
For no consideration would he have left this duty to another, for it was to communicate to Titianus, who had offended him, the intelligence that Caesar had deprived him of the office of prefect, and intended to examine into certain complaints of his administration. [10]
Later on it would be their duty to punish such audacity and high-treason with the utmost rigor. [10]
But the old woman's struggle between the duty that kept her near the fire and the love that drew her away from it was not of long duration. [10]
That's what a woman loses who doesn't do her duty by the man that can give her everything, and that's give her everything, while she plays the Jezebel. [11]
Charley found the woman in the Notary's office, which, while partly detached from the house, did duty as sitting-room and library. [11]
And we were witnesses; we had seen these murders done and it was our duty to tell, and let the law take its course. [5]
I was wroth with the hard and bitter world for its cruelty; yet it was in truth that very world, and its pitiless call to duty, which at that time rescued me from worse things. [10]
He went on with his duty, but talked no more of the change than if it had never occurred. [13]
He might plead with her in the name of duty, for the sake of her friends, for the good name of the family. [6]
Then Washington said, with earnest compassion in his voice-- "And so, after coming here, against your inclination, to satisfy your sense of patriotic duty and appease a selfish public clamor, you get absolutely nothing for it. [5]
And the same with duty for duty's sake? [5]
She upbraided Coello with being faithless to his paternal duty, and called him a thoughtless booby. [10]
He got out, with a poor attempt at a swagger, without his customary protestations of duty and humble offers of service. [9]
One or two wise men, however, were able to secure order long enough to have the resolution passed for forming a Local Interests Committee whose duty it would be to see that the people were not sacrificed to a "soulless plutocracy. [11]
Let come what will, I owe my first duty to you, though all the world chatter; and I will not stir from that. [11]
I cannot and will not neglect my duty for the sake of the wretched woman. [10]
I hope you will all do your duty bravely and promptly, that you may be back in three months to join the main army in the expedition of revenge on the Massagetae. [10]
Isn't it a wife's duty to help her husband--Shouldn't you be fighting against Barode Barouche? [11]
The elderly servant, who, singularly enough, was of noble family--his real name was Von Wurmkessel--did his duty as noiselessly as a shadow. [10]
The little man who worried Ibrahim urged him the way his private inclinations ran, but he was obdurate: duty must be done. [11]
Consider the man who stands by his duty and goes to the stake rather than be recreant to it. [5]
The secular judge who should have delivered judgment and pronounced sentence was himself so disturbed that he forgot his duty, and Joan went to her death unsentenced--thus completing with an illegality what had begun illegally and had so continued to the end. [5]
The commanding generals, who have power to act on proceedings of courts-martial in such cases, are authorized in special cases to restore to duty deserters under sentence, when in their judgment the service will be thereby benefited. [7]
The young man who has not heard the clarion-voices of honor and of duty now sounding throughout the land, will heed no word of mine. [3]
At a cost which no human being could estimate, he had done his duty, and in some degree reaped his reward. [6]
You took duty where you found it, and it has made you great. [9]
To Mr. Brinsmade's, when the day's duty was done, the young Union officers used to ride, and often there would be half a dozen of them to tea. [9]
I don't know what you will think of it, but I consider it my duty to let you know of it. [2]
And no matter what the result is, we must fulfill our duty by this being. [5]
She had done what she believed to be her duty, and that was sufficient; the consequences were not her affair. [5]
And this was what impressed the reporters when, in the line of their public duty, they were admitted to her presence. [4]
But isn't this what I'm accused of doing--shirking my duty of personal service by a contribution? [4]
He now knew what duty required. [10]
All the portraits were recognizable as dead Americans of distinction, and yet, through labeling added, by a daring hand, they were all doing duty here as "Earls of Rossmore. [5]
Indeed, if monuments were always given in India for high achievements, duty straitly performed, and smirchless records, the landscape would be monotonous with them. [5]
She smiled, and went into the house to see whether Milly had done her duty before she left. [9]
It would be well if they could be relieved from duty and flung out in the literary back yard to rot and disappear along with the discarded and forgotten "steeds" and "halidomes" and similar stage-properties once so dear to our grandfathers. [5]
I made my way cautiously through the streets towards the cathedral, for I owed a duty to the poor soldier who had died in my arms, through whose death I had been able to enter the town. [11]
The one who was writing and whom Boris addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkonski was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the reception room if he wished to see him. [2]
His first duty was to go to Constantine Jopp, and speak his regret like a man. [11]
That private reason was the request of an old personal friend who himself desired to be receiver, but whom I felt it my duty to refuse a recommendation. [7]
I knew there was something troubling me,--and the thought which had been working through comes up to the surface clear, definite, and articulates itself,--a disagreeable duty, perhaps, or an unpleasant recollection. [6]
I supposed it was some duty of which I could not know. [11]
She was Scotch, was reserved, had a certain amount of shrewdness, would obey instructions, and do her duty carefully. [11]
My last thought was of the remarkable quality in this woman before me which had held her true to Mrs. Temple, and which sent her so courageously to her duty now. [9]
For himself, he was no speaker at all; he could only do his duty and love his people. [11]
But to try was my duty, and I tried with all my might; almost, for Alixe's sake, with all my heart. [11]
When General Sickles was minister to Spain, he always wore, when on official duty, the dress uniform of a major-general. [5]
He said it was his duty to establish Georgie's identity, or something like that, and Georgie told him to get off at the next station and buy Waring's Magazine--was that it, Georgie? [9]
Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and at last Anna Mikhaylovna, still with the same expression, pale but resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly on the arm said: "The divine mercy is inexhaustible! [2]
Meanwhile Pyramus Kogel was constantly in his mind, and at last he thought it his duty to speak to Barbara about her unseemly treatment of this estimable man. [10]
When the death-moment was come, the colonel and his officers took their several posts, the men stood at shoulder-arms, and so, as on dress-parade, with their flag flying and the drums beating, they went down, a sacrifice to duty for duty's sake. [5]
Then his duty was accomplished and his conscience free. [5]
During the existing war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. [7]
When, presently, her waiting-woman should return, she was resolved to leave the house at once; she could not bear to stay; her feelings and duty alike indicated the place where she might find the last hour's happiness that she expected or desired of life. [10]
Mr. Bixby was very willing to open boxes, and to make himself useful and agreeable; but it must be remembered that a good captain of mercenaries owes a sacred duty to his followers. [9]
Yes, I am very tired; but duty before rest. [10]
It was that very night, too, I sat with Cowan, who had duty in one of the sentry boxes, and we heard a voice calling softly under us. [9]
It was not very long before Myrtle began to accept the idea that she was the one person in the world whose peculiar duty it was to sympathize with the aspiring young man whose humble beginnings she had the honor of witnessing. [6]
But I am very forgetful, now that I am old, and my sense of duty is getting spongy. [5]
That Major-General E. V. Sumner, at his own request, be relieved from duty in the Army of the Potomac. [7]
Whatever duty urges us to do or to omit must be done or omitted; and the recklessness with which our adversaries break the laws, or counsel their violation, should afford no example for us. [7]
We declined, gently urging the duty and pleasure of staying with her, who was now so dear and so feeble. [14]
It was impressed upon you and yours to hold the life of another sacred; to us, our duty as the sovereign transcends this law. [10]
The duty is upon her in this poor world of being as attractive as she can, and yet she is held responsible for all the mischief her attractiveness produces. [4]
The sergeant came up--a conscientious Boston clerk who had joined the militia from a sense of duty and a need for exercise. [9]
The colonel lined up his regiment on the deck and said "it is our duty to die, that they may be saved. [5]
It was not unwillingly that the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather had relinquished the duty of conducting the service to the Reverend Doctor Honeywood, in accordance with Elsie's request. [6]
She was in unusually good spirits, her heart beat higher than it had done for years; she felt uplifted by the sense of relief from a burthensome duty, and of freedom to act independently on the dictates of her own intelligence. [10]
He was restless under this sense of duty. [4]
It is always under protest that the hired man does his duty. [6]
My spirits rose unaccountably, and I felt as though it were a fete night, and the day's duty over, the hour of play was come. [11]
Then I lampooned two prominent citizens outrageously--not because they had done anything to deserve, but merely because I thought it was my duty to make the paper lively. [5]
I'll have a try at it, and do my duty to my country, too. [11]
But in serious truth, we have been drifting about, for several days, using our eyes and our ears more from a sense of duty than any higher and worthier reason. [5]
He made a trip with good old Captain Y----once, and was 'relieved' from duty when the boat got to New Orleans. [5]
Barclay de Tolly tried to command the army in the best way, because he wished to fulfill his duty and earn fame as a great commander. [2]
I hesitated, sadly torn between duty and inclination. [9]
Then the conversation took a lively turn, but duty was not forgotten, for at the end of half an hour the captain rose to survey the horizon himself and urge the sentinels to vigilant watchfulness. [10]
He had heard, too, that they shrunk from no lies, no fraud to escape their toil, and how difficult was the task of compelling them to obey and fulfil their duty. [10]
Ere long I too shall be wrapped in mummy-cloths, and then if duty calls you into Syria some prudent housewife must take my place. [10]
It was the tomtom calling him to duty, to the lecture on rhetoric which at this hour he had to deliver to the young priests. [10]
Still Philip's conscience told him that it was his plain duty to carry the matter into the courts, even with the certainty of defeat. [5]
The world seemed to whirl around her, right and wrong and duty in a confused maze. [4]
She was competent to treat it in all its phases: not merely those of personal interest, but those of duty to the broken Southern past, sentimentally dear to him, and practically absurd to her. [8]
You give names to things--bishops, elders, ministers, Mormonism, duty, faith, glory. [13]
He was rushing to the window to draw back the curtain and look upon the horrid deed with his own eyes, when Apollinaris called him back, reminding him of their duty toward Melissa's brother, who was lost if the others discovered him here. [10]
I did go to the Tribune office to see if such an article was wanted, because I belonged on the regular staff of that paper and it was simply a duty to do it. [5]
The Hebrews seemed to the commander too superior a force to fight, but duty required him to hold the fort until the arrival of the reinforcements he had requested. [10]
Then and there, to the best of my knowledge, I first consciously took Sin by the hand and turned my back on Duty. [6]

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