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Meanings of filial duty in English

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Usage of filial duty in English
1
There is something characteristic in this mode of filial duty and honor.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
2
I am quite sure that you are backward in no filial duty.
Herb of Grace
3
Both filial duty and natural affection were strong sentiments with him.
Life of Father Hecker
4
Her bosom heaved violently-remorse ,affectionand filial duty wrestled desperately in her heart.
Tales from Two Hemispheres
5
Her notions of filial duty, notwithstanding the persecutions she meets with.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
6
The girl has that exaggerated idea of filial duty common to the Indian races.
An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada
7
Old loyalties took precedence over new; filial duty superseded love.
Bundori
8
Nor was this sacrifice to filial duty quite free from the leaven of selfishness.
Fenton's Quest
9
There lies the bond of filial duty torn to atoms!
Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy
10
How distressing for a daughter to find her heart militating with her filial duty!
The Contrast
11
Should I have tried to touch him by appeals to filial duty, to brotherly love?
A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories
12
How just is this reward of his filial duty!
The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)
13
Love shone cunningly through the mask of filial duty, but the plea of urgency was reasonable.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
14
Through the mingled formalities of Court etiquette and filial duty, she could never penetrate to Victoria.
Queen Victoria
15
And, since he was an only child, the burden of filial duty rested on him alone.
Shinjū
16
At the sight of his father, of Beatrice's grief, his sense of filial duty gave way.
"My Novel" — Volume 11
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