"R-a-t," I'd respond dutifully, with all of the preschool pride that I could muster.

"Aye, sir," the Trill responded dutifully, only a thin strain of sentiment insinuating itself into her voice.

Her nerve endings dutifully responded to his tongue, but again, it was merely an anatomy lesson.

Society instils values, norms and roles, and humans dutifully respond like marionettes.

The laugh was better than the joke deserved, and it was not just crew members responding dutifully to their commander's wit.

"Aye, sir," his son dutifully responded, and Martok was pleased by that.

"Aye, sir," the security officer responded dutifully.

'Yes, now I see,' he dutifully responded.

Given her cousin's and professor's directives, it would have been easy to respond to the seals dutifully, to surrender to the inertness of the past.

He responded dutifully, splashing on cologne and jumping into his car for the trip to Manhattan.