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Example sentences for "her duty"

  • But still we never spoke of the note; till, all at once, something possessed me to ask Miss Matty if she would think it her duty to offer sovereigns for all the notes of the Town and County Bank she met with?

  • Entirely of her own accord she felt it her duty to try and obtain help for me, which she endeavoured to get from a certain Mme.

  • She wrote and told me of her recovery and requested me to visit her, because she felt it her duty to apologise to me for the trouble in which she had involved me.

  • But now Madeleine, in place of getting ready to leave, as she had intended, sat down at the centre table, and revolved what she felt it to be her duty to say.

  • She allowed no item of her duty to escape her, and moved about the house as usual, sternly observant of her daily task, but her lips were compressed to a thin line, and her face reflected the anger that burnt in her heart, too deep for speech.

  • It was clear that she could not help looking pleased when he arrived, though it would be her duty to look somewhat sad and sorrowful.

  • Sigmundskron had been very desolate and lonely during the last two days, since Hilda's mother had ridden away through the bitter night to do her duty in the house of death.

  • She did not suffer herself to think whence it came, for she needed strength, not only to do her duty, but to impose order and quiet in the terrified household.

  • She would have to do that; her duty to others demanded it.

  • Her duty on the occasion seemed to become quite clear to her.

  • She leaned upon the mantel and tried to think: of her duty to Hugo, of how natural it was that he shouldn't understand, of how all this had begun.

  • Lisbeth thought it her duty to go into Crevel's room, where she found Victorin and his wife sitting about a yard away from the stricken man's bed.

  • Your daughter Celestine has too strong a sense of her duty to proffer a word of reproach.

  • I need use no argument, then, to convince a Christian lady, that it is her duty to avoid this species of conformity to the world.

  • She was a great talker, and often had difficulties with her brethren and sisters in the church; for she thought it her duty to exercise a watchful care over them.

  • But father," protested Aileen, who was a little distraught at the thought of having to listen to a long preachment which would relate to her duty to God and the Church and her family and her mother and him.

  • Hours before Frank had insisted that she should not bother about him, that she could do nothing; and she had left him, wondering more than ever what and where was the line of her duty.

  • He kissed his daughter and blessed her, and bade her love her husband and be a good wife; but such injunctions as these, seeing how splendidly she had done her duty in securing to herself a marquess, seemed out of place and almost vulgar.

  • Being his wife, it might be her duty not to see her husband's iniquities.

  • It could not be her duty to accede to such an alliance?

  • But her pride was of that sort which is in no way disgraceful to either man or woman, and was accompanied by pure true love, and a full resolution to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased her God to call her.

  • Kate heartily disliked this, but it was part of her duty, and she did it with a smile that brought success.

  • But this she thought it her duty to oppose, and she felt it to be her inclination to disappoint the muleteer.

  • Thus re-animated with a sense of her duty, she completed the triumph of her integrity over temptation, more forcible than any she had ever known, and consigned the papers to the flames.

  • But, after she had paused a few minutes, the consciousness of her duty returned, and she went on.

  • The tenderest love had already pleaded his cause, but had been unable to overcome her opinion, as to her duty, her disinterested considerations for Valancourt, and the delicacy, which made her revolt from a clandestine union.

  • She had striven to do her duty to a husband whom she disliked,--but even in that she had failed.

  • Her duty to herself justified the somewhat unusual step.

  • And when he was tortured by headache, she brought him an effervescing drink, and considered that she had done her duty.

  • Ah, I could see the torture endured by this generous girl, while she struggled between her love, and what she believed to be her duty.

  • His doting mother felt it her duty to give him these luxuries, when her other sons were enjoying everything of the sort, besides many other advantages of which her poor Raoul was deprived.

  • Such are the cares which devolve upon the nursemaid, and it is her duty to fulfil them personally.

  • She thought it her duty to reveal to her innocent Beatrice some of the pitfalls into which young married girls are so apt to fall.

  • Mrs. Meadowsweet addressed them in a deferential tone as "Miss," and it went like an electric flash through the minds of all the other visitors that the old lady was quite right when she thought it her duty to receive them in state.

  • Alice was further instructed, in case Mrs. Bertram so far failed in her duty as to neglect to invite Matty to stay to dine at the Manor to try and bring Captain Bertram back with them to supper.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    coming home; her bed; her bosom; her breast; her children; her country; her cousin; her door; her dress; her father; her for; her little; her own free will; her pocket; her side; her tone; her was; her will; here before; here below; here given; here meant; here shown; hereafter shall; hereditary transmission; personal characteristics