duteously

Example Sentences

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Here he is, wandering alone, waiting duteously on Nature, while she unfolds a page of stern, of silent, and of solemn poetry beneath his attentive gaze.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

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

Is not this firmament of air part of the human heritage, Which man must conquer duteously, as first his Maker willed?

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

The minister and his wife were as sincerely, duteously courteous.

From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway

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