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								I took her and tried to cumft her: I pinted out the diffrents of our sitawashns; igsplained to her that proppaty has its jewties as well as its previletches, and that MY juty clearly was to marry into a noble famly. The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006 
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								I took her and tried to cumft her: I pinted out the diffrents of our sitawashns; igsplained to her that proppaty has its jewties as well as its previletches, and that MY juty clearly was to marry into a noble famly. Burlesques 2006 
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								βIt was nothing more than my juty β as a gentleman,β said Mr. Hoopdriver. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006 
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								"Shure, they were bad enough to say he was puttin 'the money in his own pocket, and dem goin' to their juty every month." My New Curate P.A. Sheehan 
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								Ye must not -- "the soft Hibernian brogue sank to a gentle hush --" niver fear ... for thim that's died doin 'their juty! ... The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall 
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								You hold your whisht, and learn behavior while I pay my juty to his honor. O'Flaherty V.C. : a recruiting pamphlet George Bernard Shaw 1903 
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								"I know it's my juty as a soldier to kill them," I says. O'Flaherty V.C. : a recruiting pamphlet George Bernard Shaw 1903 
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								She's no beauty to look at, but she's Ould Pummeloe's daughter, an ''tis my juty to provide for her. Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900 
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								My gre't desire insistin 'ob a wush ter view de glories ob de city, whenst de informalerties wuz ober I set myse'f ter de juty ob so doin'. The Heart of Old Hickory and Other Stories of Tennessee 1895 
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								The small face was drawn to the aspect of a grave judge -- 'ye maun do that; it's yer juty.' A Dozen Ways Of Love Lily Dougall 1890 
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