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I won't have any criminal talkings to me abouts dutys. '
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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Is it your dutys to attacks innocent foreigners, eh?
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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'I knows you, Christaki, sos don'ts you go talkings about dutys to me.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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Relissius dutys yet and send me word from all her children I left behind say to affey White that I wish her to write me a
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I would like to hear from my mother sichy Ambie you will Please write to my mother and tell her that I am well and doing well and state to her that I perform my Relissius dutys and I would like to hear from her and want to know if she is performing her
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Voted that the prayer of the Petition be so farr granted that the said strip of Land prayed for, that is the Jurisdiction of it be Annex'd to the Town of Groton & to y'e Second Precinct in said Town & to do dutys there & to recieve Priviledges from them.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Various
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Our Capt is an excellent practical sailor, very alert, knows all the dutys of a foremast man, is the first to go aloft, and takes his share of the hardest duty; but tho 'he would do very well in that station, has had no education to fit him to command a ship; and were not my brother on board, we could not take even an observation with any certainty.
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But it will be to late for them to show their appreciations because I won't be here no more and the boys probably won't see me again till its all over and we are back in the old U.S. because Alcock was talking to a bird that's in the int.dept. and he says 1 of their dutys was to keep away from everybody and not leave them know who you are.
The Real Dope Ring Lardner 1909
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We see in orchards some trees so fruitful, that the waight of their Burden is the breaking of their limbs; some again are but meanly loaden; and some among them are dry stocks: so it is in the church, which is God's orchard, there are some eminent Christians that are soe frequent in good dutys, that many times the waight thereof impares both their bodys and estates; and there are some
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878
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These things we must keep clean-company drill in the forenoon, batalions drill in the afternoon, dress parade in the evening and then we have other dutys to perform.
Franklin County: Franklin Rosenbery to Rosenbery, John Abraham (father) and probably Mary Jane Snider (Franklin's stepmother), April 23, 1864 Franklin Rosenbery 1864
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