duteous

• “Love her with tenderness, reward her kindness by your duteous conduct; and after a life well spent, may you gently sink to repose, beloved and lamented.”

  The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale

• “Let no selfish gratification or secret enjoyment prevent your duteous compliance.”

  The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale

• “But the Trojans were dying, first for their fatherland, fairest fame to win; whomso the sword laid low, all these found friends to bear their bodies home and were laid to rest in the bosom of their native land, their funeral rites all duly paid by duteous hands.”

  The Trojan Women

• “Curfew Street, and though we know he was somedeal hurt in that matter, we cannot see why he should not do homage in leal and duteous sort.”

  The Fair Maid of Perth

• “To his parents, we are apt to say, he endears himself by his pious attachment and duteous care still more than by the connexions of nature.”

  An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals

• “But as you saide, and very well too, what hath failed this night, another hereafter may more fortunately performe: in hope whereof, commend my love and duteous service to her, and (what else remaineth mine) to your gentle selfe.”

  The Decameron

• “Be but duteous, and true preferment shall tender itself to thee.”

  Cymbeline

• “The first check to her duteous demonstrations was a formal intimation from the fallen majesty of England, that I was in no manner to be intruded upon her.”

  The Last Man

• “It was a sight for the lovers of the human race to enjoy; to behold, as in ancient times, the patriarchal modes in which the variety of kindred and friendship fulfilled their duteous and kindly offices.”

  The Last Man

• “He had been duteous over his tasks for fear of punishment, and had got through his legal studies with credit because his existence was tranquil.”

  Pierre And Jean

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