duteously

Example Sentences

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And his brothers and his kinsmen duteously his hest obey, With each parting guest and monarch journey on the home ward way.

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh

Thus encouraged, Mrs. Covil dropped into a chair, seeming not loath to tell those things she had, while Nancy leaned back and listened duteously for a perfunctory ten minutes.

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon

Many are ashamed of it even while duteously confessing it, and gabble over the sentences in their creed which acknowledge it in a very perfunctory manner.

From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood

To please her he duteously obeyed Hemingway's fastidious instructions as to habiliments.

From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway

"Then you shall take it there," answered the governess of the feast; and Mr. Arbuton duteously set off with the bottle in his hand.

From A Chance Acquaintance by Howells, William Dean