Duties

Examples

• The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In those in which they take place, and are in farm, there are many local duties which do not extend beyond a particular town or district. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The first wave is past, and the argument is compelled to admit that men and women have common duties and pursuits. Plato. The Republic.
• Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The coach-tax and plate tax are examples of the former method of imposing; the greater part of the other duties of excise and customs, of the latter. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If such is the case, and Mr. Micawber forfeits no privilege by entering on these duties, my anxiety is set at rest. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The art of war cannot be learned in a day, and there must be a natural aptitude for military duties. Plato. The Republic.
• The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You see,' returned Mr Boffin, with a confidential sense of dignity, 'as to my literary man's duties, they're clear. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Ah, business--business--professional duties . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I left them still listening to him when I withdrew to attend to my new duties. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was lynch law of a kind; but in view of the responsibility, this action of the conductor lay well within his rights and duties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I shut my eyes involuntarily, and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But upon the greater part of goods, those duties are equivalent to a prohibition. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He secluded himself as much as the duties of his station permitted. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was past five o'clock in the afternoon before I returned from the performance of these duties. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Nowhere was there evidence of a man tilling the fields or performing any of the homely duties of the village. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• With those words the nurse left her to return to the duties of the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Those duties, when applied to such purposes, are most properly imposed according to the bulk or weight of the goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She has since been taught one thing and another in the way of her duties, but she was tamed from the beginning. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The first, and, perhaps, the most ancient of all those duties, was that upon wool and leather. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is because of the banths that they seldom venture below ground except as their duties call them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As he did so, a small case in which the Doctor was accustomed to carry the lists of his day's duties, fell lightly on the floor. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Once clear of the grounds, the duties of hospitality (in Betteredge's code of morals) ceased, and the privileges of curiosity began. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Before the 13th of the present king, the following were the duties payable upon the importation of the different sorts of grain: Grain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The duties of excise are imposed chiefly upon goods of home produce, destined for home consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In France, there are both stamp duties and duties upon registration. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• After outlining the duties of the meter man, Edison says: I should not take too young a man for this, say, a man from twenty-three to thirty years old, bright and businesslike. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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