obligingness
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Therefore, if this work has any merit, no small part of it is due to Signor Foucard's obligingness.
From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius
Frau Wetterhahn was all obligingness, hearing Lady Brierley's name, and made them right welcome.
From The End of a Coil by Susan Warner
Men respected his strong, steady character, his high standard, his sound judgment in matters affecting the stable and the race-course; women were attracted by his obligingness and generosity.
From A Crooked Path A Novel by Mrs. Alexander
According to that system the best thing for a man to do is to marry of set purpose out of sheer obligingness and courtesy.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
Mrs. Lewin promised the white and silver mantua, and as many of the new clothes as a supernatural address, industry, and obligingness, could produce within the time.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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