devoir
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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
A battle ensued of as valiant a character as any recorded in the pages of history; for there was neither knight nor squire but what did his devoir and fought hand to hand.”
From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
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
N�anmoins, en vue de l'Adresse que vient d'adopter la Conf�rence, il croit devoir lui communiquer une lettre qu'il a re�u de Sa Majest� le Sultan Muley-el-Hassan, et qui a trait aux Juifs ses sujets.
From Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question by Wolf, Lucien
