dooty

As much as I wanted to stay under the covers and hide from the world, or spend hours staring at cutlery in that curious way people do, but duty called ... or rather dooty, is that how they spell it?

Another day another buck and a half 2008

"So I should, my lad; but there's a some'at as they calls dooty as allus seems to have hold on me tight.

The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens George Manville Fenn 1870

"And resisting an of'cer in the p'soot of his dooty is a misde --"

Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

No, Dick, that kind of dooty don't deserve a blessing.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

And I put two and two together when the guv'nor came up to me next day, and, arter talking about 'dooty' and 'ow easy it was to get night-watchmen, mentioned in 'a off-'and sort of way that, if I left the wharf at all between six and six, I could stay away altogether.

Deep Waters, the Entire Collection 1903

And I put two and two together when the guv'nor came up to me next day, and, arter talking about 'dooty' and 'ow easy it was to get night-watchmen, mentioned in 'a off-'and sort of way that, if I left the wharf at all between six and six, I could stay away altogether.

The Substitute Deep Waters, Part 9. 1903

At the village of Souha, Park begged a handful of grain of a "dooty," who answered that he had nothing to give away.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

"Now, Thomson, you knows your dooty, which is to give the pris'ner on the gratin 'five and twenty lashes, _well laid on_.

The Voyage of the Aurora Harry Collingwood 1886

As an old soldier, I feel it is my dooty to bring to the attention of the readers of this blog some of the lessons I learned at war.

Awwwwwwkward. CC 2009

Sumhao ai haz a feline taht dooty adn teh reel lief nebbre lukked sew gud!

It may look - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009