duteousness

Example Sentences

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He wrote, for example, with a voluminous duteousness, to his parents.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

Its duteousness his heart forgot; His pride waxed hard, and kept its place, But the glory departed from his face, And that which was his strength, grew weak.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by MacClintock, Porter Lander

It was by her brave duteousness that his mutilated body was buried in the chancel of Chelsea Church.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

Poor laddie, what would be outrecuidance in another is but duteousness in him.

From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary