| 1. | You've got a dutiful mother, you have, my son. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | You know me dutiful therefore, dear sir. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | "But he didn't disdain it I believe he cared for me, but he was a dutiful son.... - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | Young Jerry relieved his father with dutiful interest, and reported No job in his absence. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | I'm come to fetch you home and I hope you'll be a dutiful daughter and not encourage my son to further disobedience. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 7. | Peter Hawkins, Exeter, to say, with his dutiful respects, that he is sorry for his delay, and that all of his work is completed. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 8. | But yesterday morning you had made up your mind, in a great hurry, to stay here, and to accompany your mother, like a dutiful son, to the sea-side. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | "And I as a dutiful son, as they choose that I shall be descended from you.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |