Read full poem →And seem to mock at my desert.
Not but that I'm a duteous wife
To Fred; but, in another life,
Dictionary Entry
Dutiful
In a Sentence
“a duteous son”
Origin
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Common Phrases
son duteouslove duteousdaughter duteouscare duteousaffection duteousoaths duteous
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Poetry examples for “duteous”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Then look'd I miserably round
If aught of duteous love were left undone,
And nothing found.
Read full poem →The sombre hours, that round thee stand
With down-cast eyes (a duteous band) !
Their dark robes dripping with the heavy dew.
Read full poem →And Wit congeal'd stands fix'd in wintry trance.
But to the sounds with duteous haste repair
Cold Industry, and wary-footed Care; 10
Read full poem →Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract, and look another way: