How To Use devoir In A Sentence
- REFERENCES: un rouspéteur (une rouspéteuse) = moaner; le devoir (m) = homework; le souci (m) = worry Words in a French Life
- MONTREAL - When Quebec politician Henri Bourassa proposed to call his fledgling newspaper Le Devoir - or The Duty - there were doubts even in his elevated circle as to whether a paper by that name devoted to harping on the theme of "public duty" would find a sustaining readership. Canada.com Top Stories
- La sage conduitte et la prudence de Monsieur de Champlain Gouuerneur de Kebec et du fleuve sainct Laurens, qui nous honore de sa bien - veillance, retenant vn chacun dans son devoir, a fait que nos paroles et nos prédications ayent esté bien receuens, et la Chapelle qu'il a fait dresser proche du fort a l'honneur de nostre Dame, &c. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
- I said 'devoirs'!" returned the kinglet, turning upon him in anger. John Dough And The Cherub
- Sir, of your valliance you should have held to your good vow, -- quoth the damozel, for now you see me sore perplexed and that you did not your devoir is my affliction. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1
- The crafty Lethington, the deep and dark Morton, have held secret council with me, and Grange and Lindsay have owned, that in the field I did the devoir of a gallant knight — but let the emergence be passed when they need my head and hand, and they only know me as son of the obscure portioner of Glendearg.” The Abbot
- 'Help is needed there,' cried the kind heart just now, and then the blood did its 'devoir'. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
- What is important in this affair is that the devoir d'ingérance the right to violate the sovereignty of a country if human rights are being excessively violated has been recognised. Libya: Bernard-Henri Lévy dismisses criticism for leading France to conflict
- The hedge was laid by a veteran Yorkshireman, and the lord of the manor's bailiff was present to see the devoir properly carried out.
- Edgar, to whom this was communicated, saw with terror the ascendance thus acquired over her judgment as well as her affections, and became more watchful and more uneasy in observing the progress of this friendship, than all the flattering devoirs of the gay Baronet, or the more serious assiduities of the Major. Camilla
