Responsibilities

Examples

• Life, however, was yet in my possession, with all its requirements, and pains, and responsibilities. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Well, then, I would assume the responsibilities of one. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• What is to be prepared for is, of course, the responsibilities and privileges of adult life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Him Arthur now showed, with pains and care, the state of their gains and losses, responsibilities and prospects. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill, and ticked it off. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Here, as well as on the march up, his restlessness, particularly under responsibilities, showed itself. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My worst responsibilities, so far as she was concerned, were all over when she was secured in the Asylum. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My mother was rather small, in fact too small to be allowed the responsibilities of maternity, as our chieftains breed principally for size. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• You have talked a great deal about our responsibilities in educating, Cousin. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There never was a man like him for laying on himself burdens greater than he can bearvoluntarily incurring needless responsibilities. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I would, therefore, defer to him as much as is consistent with your own responsibilities. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Knowing me thoroughly now--all my antecedents, all my responsibilities--having long known my faults, can you and I still be friends? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I wouldn't go into that, said Wemmick, evasively, it might clash with official responsibilities. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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