devoir
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From the polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You seize your guerdon before paying your devoir."
From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by J. V. McFall
Charlotte soon found a keen enjoyment in this species of literary composition, yet Emily's devoir was the best.
From Emily Brontë by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
That, according to Mr. Tennyson's lately-published opinion, is the devoir of that deeply-to-be-pitied individual, l'homme marié.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
Be kind to the umpire and give him a chance to live to a happy old age; reward him with praise and encouraging glance when he does his devoir on his stage.
From Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason
Persis cast her eyes up in despair and hastened to pay her devoirs to her mother-in-law.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
Give him my devoirs and hopes to challenge him to a Bowl when Yon comes off which God kens there seems no hurry.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
Some of the people went, and others came, with brief devoirs to Mrs. Maybough in the crepuscular corner where she sat.
From The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells
"Gee!" whispered the boy to Beatrice after he had made his devoirs.
From Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins by Lucy Foster Madison
It was a point of duty; the boy could not have done otherwise; I have too often expressed my opinion to him about the devoirs of a soldier to permit of his hesitating here.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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