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Meanings of dutiful child in English

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Usage of dutiful child in English
1
Simple prohibition had seemed to her parents sufficient for the gentle, dutiful child.
Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
2
He had always been a dutiful child and had just grown to manhood.
Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk
3
To me he seemed a dutiful child, fearing God and honoring his parent.
The Bravo: A Tale
4
Take her; she has been a loving, patient, dutiful child.
The Rector of St. Mark's
5
Be a dutiful child, and wed as I wish you?
Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories
6
Oh, Amelia, may God send you a more dutiful child than I have had!
Vanity Fair
7
I only wish she were a more dutiful child.
Quest for honour
8
On the morrow I must go forth, to return no more, the loving, dutiful child.
Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories
9
Lucy, as became a dutiful child, was silent, too.
Little Novels
10
She's a dutiful child, who will readily recognise the desires of her parents as the truest wisdom.
Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
11
Fair Esther, dutiful child, daughter of Judah!
Ben-Hur
12
I wish you joy, my dutiful child.
The Book of Dragons
13
I have, I thank Heaven, one dutiful child, and I shall henceforth think her my only one.
Amelia — Volume 1
14
Never was the old saying, that a dutiful child had dutiful children, better exemplified than in the More family.
A Book of Golden Deeds
15
The dutiful child, as if recovering strength at the sight of his father, on his knees implored his blessing.
Fox's Book of Martyrs / Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, a...
16
Oh, you dear dutiful child!
The Northern Iron
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