be one's duty to
Example Sentences
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A critic was saying that it would be one's duty to do a pretty bit of slashing.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
My dear child," said Mrs. Light, "it may be one's duty to pose.
From Roderick Hudson by James, Henry
That is, it would be one's duty to make the great moral sacrifice of speaking an untruth for the sake of saving the mother.
From Your Child: Today and Tomorrow by Gruenberg, Sidonie Matzner
