Within military organization, to refuse an order is unthinkable, though to muster a case showing why some other order would serve in its place is not undutiful in an individual subordinate, any more than in a staff.
Discipline destroys the spirit and working loyalty of the general force when it is pitched to the minority of malcontented, undutiful men within the organization, whether to punish or to appease them.
He was in much distress at your absence, and thought you were veryundutiful to leave him in his old age without even a parting word.
But on him, on the miscreant who is at the bottom of all this undutiful conduct, of all the pain it inflicts, may the fierce lightning of God's vengeance descend in burning wrath, and as a consuming fire!
There sat her father, and his worship might ask him whether she ever had shown herself an undutiful child to him.
I am not an undutiful child, I do not throw back your hand, but as my people are not here I do not sign.
I am not an undutiful child, I do not throw back your hand; but as my people are not here, I do not sign.
The Earl of Flanders, who was at the head of the base conspiracy of the King's undutiful sons and their foreign friends, took the opportunity of the King being thus employed at home, to lay siege to Rouen, the capital of Normandy.
And what advice or assistance does soundutiful a child deserve?
It’s the only possible explanation of your undutiful conduct.
It seems to be a part of your plan for being as utterly undutiful and disobedient as you can.
And it doesn’t do any good to call me undutiful and disobedient so often.
Of course you will all see a weakness of purpose in what I say, and laugh at me as the cause of my son's undutiful conduct.
The love of the gods is like the love of parents for their children, and men treat the gods as undutiful children treat their parents.
It is true that if we were to give over our house to our undutiful son, in less than three years the grass would be growing in its place, for he would be ruined.
From a peevish child he grew to be a man, and unbearably undutiful to his parents.
Have I ever given you any reason to suppose that I was so undutiful as——" "As to run away from the house with your sister—eh?
Ever since I was a child, I have been undutiful and rebellious.
Do you think it possible, Papa, that I could be so unwise or so undutiful as to take any important step without consulting you?
I have been a wicked man, an undutiful son, and a renegade from the faith; and now I feel a dagger thrust through my heart, which can never be removed.
You're an undutiful dog, not to ask after your mother, sir.
It would be very undutiful in you to refuse, so I had better leave you to your task," said Timothy, smiling, as he quitted the room.
Troubles and Consolations In our early days at home, when Harry and I used to be so undutiful to our tutor, who would have thought that Mr. Esmond Warrington of Virginia would turn Bearleader himself?
I fear he had disobeyed his parents when he galloped away on that undutiful journey.
He leapt from his couch, seized his undutiful son by his yellow curls, and laid him lifeless upon the plain.
Mrs. Elliott's repugnance at seeing her undutiful grandson causes her departure to Mr. Armstrong's.
Edward shook his head at him, as if remonstrating against this most undutiful and contemptuous style of conversation to his mother.
Dutiful affection was bringing me to town, but undutiful laziness, and being much out of order keep me in the country: however, if alive, I must make my appearance at the birthday.
He now repented of his undutiful conduct in leaving his parents, and felt his sad plight to be a fitting punishment for his fault.
The primitive manner in which the undutiful son tickles the nose of his august father is amusing.
