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duty (n): something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing to do

Use “duty” in a sentence

It’s my duty to help you.

Is this a duty-free shop?

I’m on duty from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

I’ll take over your duties.

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Synonym: assignment, charge, chore, function, job, obligation, responsibility, tariff, task, tax, toll, work. Similar words: on duty, Dutch, beauty, deputy. Meaning: [‘djuːtɪ]  n. 1. work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons 2. the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force 3. a government tax on imports or exports. 

1. Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. 

2. The path of duty is the path of safety. 

3. Only they who fulfill their duty in everday matters will fulfill them on great occasions. 

4. What is a man’s first duty? The answer is brief ; to be himself. 

5. The paramount duty of Congress is to stop deficiencies by the restoration of that protective legislation which has always been the firmst prop of the Treasury. 

6. He was dismissed for inattention to his duty.

7. He failed completely in the performance of his duty.

8. He telephoned the duty officer at regimental headquarters.

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9. It’s our duty to save water.

10. He deemed that it was his duty to help.

11. Do not forget your duty to your parents.

12. There were over 200 police on duty.

13. It’s your duty to do that.

14. I am on duty today.

15. His sense of duty is very strong.

16. I promise I will do my duty .

17. He was dismissed for neglect of his duty.

18. A physician’s sacred duty is to heal the sick.

19. There will be no court duty solicitor today.

20. He has a strong sense of duty.

21. He should bethink himself of his duty.

22. Local councillors have a duty to serve the community.

23. The director detailed a group for fatigue duty.

24. The Night Duty Officer was ready to clock off.

25. We accused him of having neglected his duty.

26. I will not be off duty until 5 p.m.

27. He pleaded guilty to wilful dereliction of duty.

28. I slept, and dreamt that life was Beauty, I woke, and found that life was Duty. 

29. When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,he always declared that it is his duty. 

30. When stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. 

Definition of Duty

a responsibility or obligation

Examples of Duty in a sentence

As an American, it is your duty to vote on Election Day.

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The lifeguard’s duty was to keep the swimmers safe.

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Although it wasn’t his duty, Officer McDaniel often drove the transportation van.

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It was the duty of the security guard to make sure all of the locks were properly secured.

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The man had a duty to serve his country when drafted.

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Kira’s emotional ‘computer’ was not flaw-free, and at times appeared to have the calendar set at the year 1850, when honour and duty were still in vogue

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She felt Tdeshi’s hormones prompting her to blow off comfortable old Kulai and run off on an adventure with a dashing manly man, but Ava’s sense of duty was going to force Herndon to pay for this junket with his fast boat

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You have a duty to Department X above all other duties!” Ackers said in a much quieter voice

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It is my duty

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Therefore, no neglect of duty is possible to the one-pointed person

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’ He said as we show our membership cards to the National Trust personnel on duty and wander off into the great hall of the house

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Are you still on duty?»

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«My Dad always said a real detective is always on duty

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There were two of them, both heavy duty

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The pain in my ribs was searing, worse than anything the loan-shark heavies had done to me but I guessed that I didn’t have the right to medical attention while Garda Thicke was on duty

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A real detective is always on duty

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Usually I get a night story from the duty officer

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He was on duty, his personification in a comfortable office chair, but hard at work behind the scenes

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Being able to teach necessarily implies the duty of teaching

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As a technician, Bahkmar had suffered thru all that indoctrination, had to salute it, pass tests on it, know his duty, so on and so on

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It was the technician’s creed that this was what God meant all along, and it is our holy duty to let the non-technical believe in the words of scripture

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The technician who had drawn the Haadij’s effects duty today was paying attention

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He wondered who was on that, it was usually easier duty

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I remember having to go up to the quarry on fire watch duty sometimes … you can see clear across the village from there … right over to Wales on a good day

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Theoretically he was not attending the meeting he was supporting because he was on duty

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It wouldn’t effect anyone’s duty or life very much one way or the other, all it did was change the time till they became a growing community once again

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When he was not in a meeting, or otherwise on duty, Bahkmar was sometimes allowed to forget the woes of Haad politics and retire to his private quarters

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While he was off duty, as opposed to live when he has to be there for active support of an important gathering, he can look at schematics

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Of course techs were forbidden to associate with other techs when off duty

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Through those repetitions of days with Smiler on duty, I sat on the mattress and watched the world spin away from me as though I were floating above a stage set

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Anyway, I came over here to ask about the council meeting, you’re not on duty for this one are you?»

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He was called to emergency duty because the bus width for the number of personifications that are interacting within sight of each other was in overload

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I usually spend my time in jeans and jumpers or t-shirts, depending on the weather – or smart trousers when I’m on official duty, so to speak

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The female tech currently on duty was a blond named Linshere Paundrocop who was probably quite attractive if he could ever see more of her than her eyes and forehead

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By the letter of Holy Law they weren’t supposed to be sharing this information but the only person that could know would be another tech tapping into their duty environment

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By the time the duty clock said the sabbath was over, Bahkmar had proven to himself beyond all reasonable doubt that there were no real female souls on the ship

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There was just enough circuitry to run four different cherubs, one on duty at a time, to simulate the technician’s portal to that universe

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The two guards who had been on washing-up duty came over, this time with rolls of duct tape in their hands

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This was why the techs were kept apart from each other off duty, so they would not know who was who and could be pitted against each other by their bosses

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«Understand this much, in heaven our women are protected,» God rumbled, «their duty is done, they have completed their duties to men

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I had a duty to exist because I felt sure that by surviving I would find companionship

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He thought someone should notice he hadn’t reported for duty by now

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With all the disruption their expedition had faced, he only went out when he was on duty

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«Your duty is to keep us safe from other prying eyes and ears

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«Not a clue, I haven’t been called for duty since the end of that meeting

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«What was your duty?»

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Listening to the night-dead creaking of the building and to the faint strains of a television playing further down the hall in the room where the guards brewed our tea and relaxed when not on duty, I wondered again about this friendship

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About one in ten thousand people here carried one, he gave one to every crew chief on duty at the ranch

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She was on duty, at least her avatar was, by now that was just about a copy of herself, interrupting her real self for further information now and then

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You don’t want to feel guilty anymore, so you do your religious duty in going to church, tithing, repenting, reading your Bible, attending the Bible study, serving, and all the other things that are promoted by the church building that good saints do

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This city needed a Helen on duty in this harbor at all times to launch these thousand ships

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Nuran began to like playing the ‘space man’ game with Alan and showed off how well she had studied for this trip by taking over duty as his guide

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hanging duty and respect on gently vibrating airwaves

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and a riot squad that is one off duty policewoman

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There came a time in late Morningday in week Zawmathii, their third week out of Shempala when she was on the topdeck because of duty on the middle mast

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We carouse with the captain and those crew members not on duty for a couple of hours before Drens, pouring the last of the wine into his glass, tells us to get off to bed

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Traffic was heavy on the Lhar by that point, there was a line of ships in each direction so they had to pay attention when on duty

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Duty had been vigorous today, but not exhausting, enough to make her pretty tired and ready to get some sleep

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She was very depressed and he knew that the only reason she was still alive was out of a sense of duty to him

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It was pulse code, the frequency and duty cycle varied over time

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It was half a local year since he told Ava about the visit from Elmore and he still saw little of her outside of duty

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All of the policemen on crowd duty turned and fled the carnage, but the ordinary people in the crowd started to cheer and whoop with delight, carrying the soldier around on their shoulders and yelling and shouting that they’d never liked bankers at all

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It was stuck in three-d reality however and he could not pull it thru to his duty station to check its charge

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He didn’t stop however, getting their Systems Administrator back was much more important than any duty he was ever assigned

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After the Morningday he spent at the desk eye, he turned in early for Noonsleep and slept right thru Monday’s duty hours

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He settled down in the dugout to watch the rest of the match next to his less illustrious team mates, just another mucker doing his duty

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Morg used as little magic as possible in everyday life, but while on duty he used what was convenient for the crew and allowed for his rank

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If she wasn’t using these condensates as an excuse to end their marriage she would have shortcut her duty to the captain to help him decode these signals

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«You should try plotting by burst duty cycle and warp radius,» she said, moving quite close to him when she did

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Admirable Aristethes would perform his duty even if it made him wince

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Were we mortals I would tell you it is your duty to do your best to satisfy her, especially spiritually, with her need for comfort and affection

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As immortals, it is still your duty to satisfy her needs for comfort and affection, you said as much in your vows

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«Why does every line in every conversation have to be serious? Can’t we ever be off duty? Look, this seat was built to cuddle up in and you’re sitting there like you’re with your mother

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About the only women who’s duty personifications were acceptable were Glenelle, Leslie and Ava

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Victoria might even be next, though she was one of the majority who didn’t change their flesh’s rendering when off duty and presented herself as forty seven years of age

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Her voice, but without the nasal overtones said, «I use a different personification off duty

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She turned to the young warrior, “Your Lord said you were to protect the main house; go and do your duty

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She was fun to watch, he should discipline her for the clothing she wore on duty, but it was all perfectly legal

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On a Saturday Kelvin didn’t need to appear for duty unless called, but he liked being in space as it appeared around them

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She was used to the way he kept his duty space during off-duty hours

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Even though we aren’t getting along right now, I think Thom is a good and pious crewman and can carry out his duty in spite of getting a little too carried away with what he’s finding

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It was rare that he came down into the bowels of Heymon’s duty section during duty shift, but for the last three weeks he wanted to see what his de-facto science officer was doing about the bogie

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«Ava told him all this during duty hours

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She could almost always get a location on any member of the crew, but when she was off duty, it was often hard to get a location on her

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She appeared at his door in a bit more than ninety seconds, but dressed in the flowing robes she often wore on duty

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These were not what his breakfasts used to be, these were special invitation-only and they were not supposed to be related to duty

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Of course there would hardly be a soul here who had an interest other than their duty, but here they could talk of it as they wished, carry on ad nauseam and expound their own opinions

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Biology did all that was required, but they seldom visited the model of the real study planet in their off duty hours

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She appeared in the door by herself, wearing robes very similar to what she wore on duty

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That jersey was too thin for duty on Gordon’s Lamp without underwear, but this wasn’t duty hours any more was it?

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Alan was still out in the garden, as he had been when she left, where he was for many hours when he was not on duty

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Her only means of catching him would be to stay with him every hour he wasn’t on duty

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She wondered if she had fallen into some cultural trap like maybe if she asked him to bathe, it was her duty to bathe him

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Whichever soldier was nearest the rope that needed hauling got that duty

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Poor old Bunty! She’s got a job where she’s valued and respected, a home and life which she enjoys and has to ditch the lot to go home to look after her parents … but it is what she was brought up to see as her duty and, as an unmarried daughter, an automatic process

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“I had sex five times with three different guys when I went to your starship, all of it was part of my duty, but most of it I enjoyed

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All of the policemen on crowd duty turned and fled the carnage,

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Using her as translator, Ava went thru the whole story, the parking garage, how it was planked in, how people argued about bathroom duty, the landfill that the pistolieros busted open and how her father scavenged there

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Ava decided that she probably had forgotten to reset her personification to her duty hours figure when she went off to duty the morning of the encapsulation

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Deep space probes were continuous with two technicians always on duty monitoring activity

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He saw it as his way of showing Kai he was able to return to duty

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Sonia had made it her personal duty those many years ago to keep tabs on Matai and Lord Boras

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“As you know,” she began once formalities were over, “Tometahin requires utmost concentration to perform his duty

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By the time she was ready to call the captain, she was shocked to find out how late it was, duty hours were over already

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say, we are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do

All sentences (with pause)

Used with adjectives:

«To uphold laws is our constitutional duty.«
(constitutional, civic, civil)

«Their primary duty is to protect us.«
(primary, general)

«Lawyers have a professional duty to keep things confidential.«
(professional, contractual, legal)

«Military soldiers have a patriotic duty to protect the country.«
(patriotic)

«I have a parental duty to keep my children safe.«
(parental, family)

«A judge has an ethical duty to stay impartial.«
(ethical, moral, sworn)

«He needs to finish his combat duty.«
(combat, guard, patrol, peacekeeping, military)

«She has daily duties to perform.«
(daily, regular, routine, administrative)

«It’s a part-time duty.«
(part-time, full-time)

«When is jury duty?«
(jury)

Used with verbs:

«The police have a duty to protect the community.«
(have)

«You need to carry out your daily duties.«
(carry out, do, fulfill, meet, perform, complete, handle, finish)

«She failed in her duty to help us.«
(failed in)

«The lazy worker avoided his duties.«
(avoided, neglected, abandoned)

«He took on the household duties when his wife went back to work.«
(took on, assumed)

«Duty calls!«
(calls)

«You must report for duty on time.«
(come on, go on, report for)

«What time do you go off duty?«
(go off, come off)

«He will resume his duties in the morning.«
(resume, return to)

«The police officer was relieved of his duty.«
(be + relieved of, be + suspended from)

«The couple shares childcare duties.«
(shares, splits)

Used with prepositions:

«You have a duty to your country.«
(to)

«We have a sense of duty to our customers.«
(of)

«When are you off duty?«
(off, on)

Used with nouns:

«He was given another duty assignment.«
(assignment)

Sentence Examples

It is my duty to tell you that as such you don’t have to answer any questions about the crime and you have the right to have an attorney with you.

How did you escape sister duty tonight?

TANNOY: ‘duty hygiene assistant to the staff canteen.

‘duty hygiene assistant to the staff canteen, please.’

The guard Nibet serves his night duty at the prison of Sante, the death row, where was Fantomas.

«Come, it is at least your duty to help that poor O-Take-San!»

I now request permission to return to active duty in my old company with the rank of Private 2nd Class under the orders of Sergeant Francois Laurin.

That night, I was on guard duty on the battlefield.

duty calls my heart / Away from these fair parts.

Instead of doing your duty, ESTs again thinking about that woman.

We»ve got a special duty for you two.

You have a holy duty to fulfill, — you must endow England with an heir to the throne!

It’s my bounden duty to go and expose this woman to the Squire.

I regarded it as my duty to tell you about it…

Charity — to some a duty, to others a joy.

He must perform his forlorn duty. «

I will not shirk my duty.

You have the duty to heal the wounds of your people. They are suffering because of you.

but the reason for her rebellion against her sadness … was it a betrayal of her duty to serve her art?

«There she lies now, and it is our patriotic duty to destroy that ship.»

Heavy and gloomy is the sleep of the off duty.

COBBLING — 1,00; EVENING TEA — 2,05; WEARING THE UNIFORM OFF duty…

And «the man» was confused that day on duty…

«Alas, poor boy… I did my duty… I kissed him and he died.»

At Lily’s insistence, Solange had agreed to come to the camp to intercede for her fianc├®, since ieutenant Daumel was on duty that night.

Sergeant Dunn reporting for duty, sir.

I still have night duty at the Seamen’s Mission.

You must do the night duty alone tonight.

# I’ve learned that duty in Paris You leave it to me #

«I am only fullfilling my duty as a nurse.»

I forced myself to think of it as you did. A public duty, law and order! But this…this isn’t the same!

Go back and do your duty.

It is a duty we owe the South as well as the North.

Last night I was too hungry to sleep, and tonight, when I get the wrinkles out of my gut, they think up wiring duty.

Of course, you do your duty and you risk your life.

They have gone bravely, nobly, ever forward, realizing there is no other duty now but to save the fatherland. Paul!

The young men thought I was a coward because I told them that… we learn that death is stronger than duty to one’s country.

I was only doing my duty.

I would have known my duty.

I know that your sense of duty has kept you from showing me your real feelings.