sense of duty

• “And yet a peculiar, twisted sense of duty forced him to remain awake and continue the lost battle to the end -- even though it were only a battle with windmills.”

  Fictionaut: Autumn

• “Neither knew the virtue in the world policy; neither would have Neptune for his trident or Jove for his power to thunder; neither would have relaxed in sense of duty to win the acclaim of others, in order to lead Senates or armies or to win the civic crown or supreme command.”

  Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,

• “Unbiassed by party considerations or personal prejudices, and only influenced by a sense of duty and wish to do right, it was impossible he could be otherwise than popular.”

  The Memories of Fifty Years

• “Now it was in darkness, but the sound of regular snoring from the stoveside chair announced that Detective Officer Corkerdale was impervious both to a sense of duty and the fear of asphyxiation.”

  More Work for the Undertaker

• “Miss Topas, who, beneath a flippant attitude, concealed a strong sense of duty and responsibility, was always at the school of her assignment in very good time.”

  Laurels are Poison

• “There was not in our whole navy a man who had a higher and more chivalrous sense of duty than Riou.”

  The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

• “Near the exit, as he came out, was a hot-waffle stand which he had overlooked, and a sense of duty obliged him to consume the three waffles, thickly powdered with sugar, which the waffle man cooked for him upon command.”

  Penrod

• “In accusing Verres he accused the general corruption of Rome's provincial governors; and as they were always past-Consuls or past-Praetors, and had been the elite of the aristocracy, he may be said so far to have taken the part of a democrat; but he had done so only so far as he had found himself bound by a sense of duty to put a stop to corruption.”

  The Life of Cicero

• “When it is taken into consideration that they were undergoing all the drudgery of the pesthouse, even carrying out the remains of those who died, there is no denying that here was heroism and sense of duty surpassing that of a deadly charge on the battlefield.”

  Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,

• “Aunt Isabel would fain have run with the rest, but a sense of duty kept her feet from flying, though her pretty lace cap nearly rose from her head with fright when the largest and clumsiest mail-clad figure shuffled rapidly towards the first ghost, saying in choice modern English, "Hullo, this is too bad!”

  A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters

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