devoir
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Quand le burkini est apparu, j’étais heureuse pour ma sœur, qui était en vacances et pouvait enfin jouer sur la plage avec ses enfants plutôt que de devoir rester à l’ombre.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2016
From the polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Tell me what were the faults of that devoir?" she asked.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
Dans l'empire amoureux, Le devoir n'a point de puissance.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede
St. George had forgotten her till a late hour, and, conspicuous as Marlboro's devoir had been, her own acceptance of it had been scarcely less so.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various