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Example sentences for "duty bound"

  • Therefore the accused is in duty bound to tell the judge the truth which the latter exacts from him according to the form of law.

  • David Kent laughed, as he was in duty bound, but he still had Ormsby on his mind.

  • You are in duty bound to try to make this one understand, don't you think?

  • Add to this, that every member is, in a manner, in duty bound to be attentive and hospitable to the influential among his constituents.

  • He is in duty bound to spend the eight thousand pounds he receives from the City; it is highly meritorious in him if he spends more.

  • In short, he must is in duty bound to be a gentleman of fortune.

  • I hold myself in duty bound, as I spend a great deal of money with one hand upon my own niece, to save a great deal with the other for his.

  • I followed my master as in duty bound, and behind us stalked fifty more silent Scots.

  • I followed as in duty bound; and beside me no man but Sir John and Sir John's secretary.

  • Feeling in duty bound to look after the interests of the wretched fellow, I went to the Elector's confessor to ask him to give Balbi letters of introduction to some town in Swabia.

  • Because you think yourself in duty bound to refuse caresses which would not hurt you, and which would give me new life and happiness.

  • I felt in duty bound to go and see her, to give her my congratulations, and to wish her a pleasant journey.

  • She made efforts to like them, as in duty bound, and as sisters of her future husband.

  • She has offered the situation to me, miss, as in duty bound, I being her own niece, and mother is pleased to accept.

  • A plebeian like myself," he said, "was in duty bound to give way to a patrician.

  • Of course you are my father's confidant, and told him the whole adventure at once, as in duty bound.

  • Only the deacon waited in the porch, as in duty bound, to invite the minister home to dinner.

  • Around this charming queen of love and song gathered the admiring votaries of la gaia sciencia, like nightingales singing around the rose, all vowing, as in duty bound, that their hearts were bleeding on the horns!

  • I, for one, feel in duty bound to seek a safer way than this.

  • I am in duty bound to go even if only one wagon decides to go.

  • Prospects now seemed to me so hopeless, that I heartily wished I was not in duty bound to stand by the women and small children who could never reach a land of bread without assistance.

  • Hiram had gone every day, as in duty bound, to paint and be chidden at M.

  • At last, they reached Dijon, and there Colin got out, as in duty bound, to inquire whether his master was in want of anything.

  • At the same time the master had the right to sell them at will and they were in duty bound to assume mourning at his death.

  • We call upon you now as in duty bound to render allegiance to us.

  • Little Anne, in duty bound, made her protest, but this only incited Charles to add his word to the teasing, till Lucy joined in the laugh.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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