Otherwise the winter passed away in a round of pleasant duties and studies.

It's not always a pleasant duty, it never has been during recent months.

It's a chairman's very pleasant duty to thank you all.

The first day was taken up being classified, with driving instruction and other pleasant duties.

It now leaves me with only the very pleasant duty to declare the congress open and to wish it great success.

This can't be pleasant duty, but you've not left his side even for a moment.

It is not often I have such pleasant duty allotted me.

Last year, we had a rather more pleasant duty to perform on behalf of the Member States.

"I'm not all that late," she managed when her lips were free from more pleasant duties.

It is not a pleasant duty to bind a young woman over for trial, knowing that the interim must be spent in jail.