My bounden duty. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The bounden-stemm'd over the streams of the sea; 1910. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
When the sword all hard bounden, by hammers to-beaten. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
He then to the boat-warden handsel'd a gold-bounden 1900. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Blood-stain'd from the foe whenas five had I bounden, 420. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
My bounden hope was gratified; yet what do I benefit by that?. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
It now becomes the bounden duty of Sweden and Myself as King of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents] Reference
Never had the Swedish people been more deeply bounden to revere their ruler. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
PUNCH had rewarded him; and he therefore felt it his bounden duty to reward PUNCH. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841] Reference
It is the bounden duty of parents to rear their children to be staunch in faith. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilaton on Women] Reference
“12: It is the bounden duty of parents to rear their children to be staunch in ...”. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation on Bahá’í Education] Reference
I feel it my bounden duty to tell every one everything at home so as to expel Chin Jung. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
It is the bounden duty of the national government to extend the aid of its large resources. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
"Yes, indeed, if any one knows anything funny on shipboard it is a bounden duty to tell it.". From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard A Story for Girls] Reference
Because our service is of no profit to our master; and he justly claims it as our bounden duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
"As for me, I think it my bounden duty to vindicate your wrongs, before we let the matter drop!". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
It is the bounden duty of both Holland and Great Britain to unite cordially in this righteous cause. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
But now I must ask you a painful question; but it is your bounden duty to answer it without reserve. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
Emily Varnier, doubtless, possessed that ring, to gain possession of which now seemed his bounden duty. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference
Drayton's bounden civility to his wife, and to the other woman, must make him present himself as a target. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Naturally, I feel it me bounden duty to refute such scurrilous and untrue affronts, and thus save meself from opprobrium. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
Wait, however, until the proper signal is given, and then woe betide you if you don't cheerfully accept it as your bounden duty. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Injoy from his most free grace to Serve him according to our utmost capacitys, and that we also know that it is our most bounden Duty to. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884] Reference
It was felt that Paul had no place there, and that as he would not go of his own free will, it was the bounden duty of all of them to follow. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
It is the bounden duty of every man to look his affairs in the face, and to keep an account of his incomings and outgoings in money matters. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
There were certaine priestes in the citie, who dyd eate and drinke before in these honest mens houses, to whom the priestes were much bounden. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
I hold it to be the bounden duty of those who select the reading of a community to maintain a standard of good taste, as well as of good morals. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
And there she brought him an horn of ivory, bounden with gold richly, and said: Sir, blow this horn which will be heard two mile about this castle. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Hygeia; it was felt to be the bounden duty of every candidate for cabinet honours, to put his desk "in order," and rhyme, to the best of his power. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
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