devoir

Example Sentences

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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

However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them.

From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Helper, Hinton Rowan

N�anmoins, en vue de l'Adresse que vient d'adopter la Conf�rence, il croit devoir lui communiquer une lettre qu'il a re�u de Sa Majest� le Sultan Muley-el-Hassan, et qui a trait aux Juifs ses sujets.

From Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question by Wolf, Lucien

"I hope you do not deem the devoir of a country gentleman incompatible with the duties of a statesman?"

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James