duteous

How To Use duteous In A Sentence

• Mr. Arbuton duteously set off with the bottle in his hand. A Chance Acquaintance
• This approach, in which Mainland China makes the judgment and Hong Kong duteously follows, highlights the most dangerous aspect of the proposed law.
• Secondly, the sex scenes are mostly implied, which is a welcome break for everyone tired of sitting duteously in darkened theatres through in-your-face sex to the last gasp, waiting for the time when films once again celebrate subtleties and the gift of imagination.
• Patches of skin and blood were found on various living room walls and the cops had duteously sent several wallpaper swatches to the crime lab, skin and blood intact.
• 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
• Which man must conquer duteously, as first his Maker willed? My Life as an Author
• Thus encouraged, Mrs. Covil dropped into a chair, seeming not loath to tell those things she had, while Nancy leaned back and listened duteously for a perfunctory ten minutes. The Seeker
• He emptied the compartments duteously, packed the unsold goods in large canvas sacks, tidying them away behind the two bottom doors of his cart.
• He comes out of the house, having disposed all things duteously and fittingly round the dead, and Balaustion sees in his grave quietude that the truth is dawning on him; when suddenly Pheres, his father, who had refused to die for him, comes to lay his offering on the bier. The Poetry Of Robert Browning
• Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate Upon your grace [to the queen], but with all duteous love Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me With hate in those where I expect most love!