It's a sad duty, but one I couldn't in all good conscience leave to someone else.

"We can talk of these arrangements tomorrow, when your sad duty has been done."

Most are of a happy nature, but first there is one sad duty which must be discharged.

The dead were laid out abaft the after screen, a sad duty to deal with later.

"It becomes my sad duty to inform you that after 48 years of business we will be closing our doors for good."

These tears, the last sad duty of a friend.

It is my sad duty to say that there may be treachery among some of your forces.

It is my sad duty to inform you that not everybody will be here for the parliamentary work we are beginning today.

So if you are not silent, it will be my sad duty to have you removed.

This sad duty finished, they washed themselves with water from the well, and breakfasted.