All the old jests and quips that must have
done duty at weddings since Eden were served up, and seemed as new and brilliant and mirth-provoking as if they had never been uttered before.
The stone had clearly enough
done duty once as a doorstep.
A long red sofa or bench, which had
done duty beside a billiard-table found a place here also.
The instant the village lass who had
done duty for Dulcinea found herself free, prodding her "cackney" with a spike she had at the end of a stick, she set off at full speed across the field.
At some unnatural hour of the morning the dairyman had caused the yawning chimney-corner to be whitened, and the brick hearth reddened, and a blazing yellow damask blower to be hung across the arch in place of the old grimy blue cotton one with a black sprig pattern which had formerly
done duty there.
I was convinced that this rope had already
done duty for Joseph Buquet, who, like myself, must have caught Erik one evening working the stone in the third cellar.
The kit of the mess, if the table furniture may be so denominated, is chiefly composed of utensils of horn and tin that have
done duty in several parts of the world.
'An unexpected playsure, Nickleby,' said Lord Frederick Verisopht, taking his glass out of his right eye, where it had, until now,
done duty on Kate, and fixing it in his left, to bring it to bear on Ralph.
It was a neat, unpretending village tavern, and we took our repast in a quaint little room with a bed in it, decorated with some old oil paintings, which in their time had probably
done duty in a Catholic chapel or monastery.
In a nautical career stretching over 28 years, she has
done duty as a deckhand in commercial fishing and captained ferry boats as well as spending more than 15 years on the bridge of cruise ships.
Suggestions:Reward those who have
done duty for over five years.
"It's OK if they skip the function but we have
done duty from our side," he added.
Having
done duty as the Royals' seagoing palace for some 40 years, it is now permanently moored as a floating museum at Ocean Terminal in the Scottish capital's Leith area.
Continuing with a fixed pattern that has characterized the IPL all these years, hasn't the country been deprived of worthy players who could have
done duty for the nation?