Hortense remained behind, in order to perform a sacred duty, imposed on her, as she believed, by her own honor and dignity.
I considered it a sacred duty," said she, "to intercede for these ladies.
I consider it my sacred duty to remain true to the emperor to the last, and the greater the danger that threatens the emperor, the happier I shall be in having it in my power to show him my entire devotion and gratitude.
I go to fulfill a sacred duty, and I must be absent for some time; for though, when I was blind enough to doubt your affection, I could not make up my mind to leave you, my conscience was by no means tranquil.
The marshal answered: 'I am indeed the happiest man in the world; for I am going joyfully to accomplish a sacred duty!
I deem it my sacred duty to resist it--to resist the entrance upon our Journal of a paper hypothetically justifying disunion.
Resistance to the tyranny or folly of a government becomes a sacred duty, which somebody must perform, and the performance of which is always disagreeable, and sometimes expensive and hazardous.
Congress has a sacred dutyto perform in reforming the finances, and the currency; for the ruin of both has resulted from federal legislation, and federal administration.
Texts such as 'By works of sacred duty he drives away evil' declare that sacrifices and similar works have the effect of knowledge 'not being overpowered,' i.
The idea that blood-revenge is a sacred duty incumbent on the kindred of the deceased was probably held by all so-called Aryan peoples.
Professor Leist suggests that in ancient Greece, at a time when blood-revenge was a sacred duty in the case of premeditated murder, homicide committed without premeditation could be forgiven by the avenger of blood.
Im Thurn observes that, "in all primitive societies where there are no written laws and no supreme authority to enforce justice, such vengeance has been held as a sacred duty.
But should the alligator take a human life, revenge becomes a sacred duty of the living relatives, who will trap the man-eater in the spirit of an officer of justice pursuing a criminal.
In any case, you may be sure that I shall consider it a sacred duty to fulfil your instructions, monsieur, and that I shall hold myself in readiness to go to Mlle.
Maillefort, in more and more sarcastic tones, 'a sacred duty to which you and yours will sedulously devote yourselves.
I repudiate entirely the motives that you have suggested to him, and I consider it a sacred duty to show what I think of your story by accepting the trust which he has bequeathed to me.
Lowering his voice) Only you must leave it in your will, and then I can feel that it is a sacred duty--a sacred duty, my lords and gentlemen.
Why, it's just because these poor brutes are what they are, that rebellion becomes a sacred duty.
Have they not all seemed to consider it a sacred duty to keep themselves, as far as they could, out of party strife?
Pardon me if I seem severe; but, as old Aristotle has it, "Both parties being my friends, it is a sacred duty to honour truth first.
Towards that end he was impelled by a strong passion which appeared to him under the guise of a sacred duty.
Yet could he venture to eject in one day a crowd of respectable clergymen from their homes, because they had discharged what the whole nation regarded as a sacred duty?
The great body of the Anglican clergy had, during many years, thought it a sacred duty to inculcate on that day the doctrines of nonresistance and passive obedience.
Only you must leave it in your will, and then I can feel that it is a sacred duty--a sacred duty, my lords and gentlemen.
I regard it as my sacred duty to set foot at the earliest possible moment on the soil of my new country.
You must see that, and the golden keys of the Palace, as they were presented to him on the day he did his “sacred duty,” and set foot on Bulgarian soil.
Man and woman should regard it as sacred duty to keep apart from the moment of conception up to the time when the child has ceased to suck its mother's breast.
Hence we think it a sacred duty to cram our guests with rich food, and we cherish the hope that they will do likewise for us, when their turn comes!
On occasions of marriage and other festivities, we regard it as a sacred duty to worship the palate; even in times of funeral, we are not ashamed of doing it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacred duty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
