319 examples of dutiful in sentences

We shall return victors, if not heroesat least I know that you and Polly will believe this of your affectionate and dutiful son "JACK.

I wish my Papa would let me have a Pony, and I am Your dutiful Son, GEORGE SEDLEY OSBORNE.

Oh, Amelia, may God send you a more dutiful child than I have had!

"Any dutiful daughter ought to be satisfied with loving such a father as I am."

For that A lady, whose lord keeps summer in the hills To nurse a gouty foot, should penalize His dutiful return by shutting doors And hanging out a ladder made of rope, Or prove its safety by rehearsing it Upon a heavier man.

It don't seem much to tell of, but I wish I may be hit if it wasn't a right down dutiful and clever thing to see done.

"Too late, indeed," said the other, with a heavy sigh, "but Howell, what say you to matching Isabel with my favorite George?" "Denbigh," cried the sailor, eyeing him keenly, "Isabel is my only child, and a dutiful, good girl; one that will obey orders if she breaks owners, as we sailors say.

" "And like a dutiful daughter, I will go and pour it out for him," said Maude.

"Have I not been a dutiful daughter?

The sergeant is a father to his menhe regards them all as childrenbad boysand his business is to make them brave, honorable and dutiful soldiers.

His kind and dutiful attention to his mother was unremitted.

Her dutiful reasons.

If, more particularly, they praised her dutiful behaviour to us, we said, she knew not how to offend.

In her bosom, young as she was, could I repose all my griefssure of receiving from her prudence and advice as well as comfort; and both insinuated in so dutiful a manner, that it was impossible to take those exceptions which the distance of years and character between a mother and a daughter would have made one apprehensive of from any other daughter.

I am but a very young creature, Mr. Lovelace, said I, [and wiped my eyes as I turned away my face,] although you have kindly, and in love to me, introduced so much sorry to me already: so you must not wonder, that the word father strikes so sensibly upon the heart of a child ever dutiful till she knew you, and whose tender years still require the paternal wing.

For many generations his wishes were carried out; but at last the ring came into the possession of a man who had three sons, all virtuous and dutiful to their father, and equally beloved by him.

He has sent a letter in his own hand to her mother, inviting her to reside with them, and subscribing himself her dutiful son: but the countess has sent another privately by Don Joseph, in which she advises the old woman to stay at Lovere, promising to take care she shall want nothing, accompanied with a token of twenty sequins, which is at least nineteen more than ever she saw in her life.

The neighbors began to say that there never was a more dutiful son or a more attentive and affectionate brother.

" "What the deuse are you always bringing up Lucy to me for?" said the dutiful son.

Yet they were not really bad men, those judges, they were upright and conscientious, good citizens, excellent fathers, dutiful sonsand they were able to appreciate poor Tales' situation better than Tales himself could.

Hammond, however, was careful not to commit himself; he replied in language dutiful, yet ambiguous; and the king, unable to extricate himself from the danger, with a cheerful countenance, but misboding heart, consented to accompany him to the island.

A word of encouragement, of pity for my childish ignorance, of welcome home, of reassurance to me that it was home, might have made me dutiful to him in my heart henceforth, instead of in my hypocritical outside, and might have made me respect instead of hating him.

She was not the less submissive and dutiful in her bearing to her grandmother, whom she both loved and feared; but there were moments of fretfulness and impatience which she could not conceal.

They speak as follows: "May it Please your Excellency, We, her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Assembly of Jamaica, thank your Excellency for your speech at the opening of the session.

That they will continue to deport themselves as dutiful subjects, and good men and women, we have no doubt.

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