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
St. George had forgotten her till a late hour, and, conspicuous as Marlboro's devoir had been, her own acceptance of it had been scarcely less so.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various
Monarchs and ministers, are awful names; Whoever wear them, challenge our devoir.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
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
