devoir
Example Sentences
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Quand le burkini est apparu, j’étais heureuse pour ma sœur, qui était en vacances et pouvait enfin jouer sur la plage avec ses enfants plutôt que de devoir rester à l’ombre.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2016
From the polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above one door ran the legend "Le Couronn� dut devoir," a sufficiently chivalrous motto.
From When Love Calls by Weyman, Stanley John
But presently, frowning, said, "I marvel, sir, that so good a knight as you should know his devoir so ill as turn rebel, and give us all this trouble."
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
Strip him to-morrow of his scarlet, and he will do his devoir as nobly in the white jacket of the Austrian grenadier or the brown one of the Portuguese cazador.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
