disoblige

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I shall endeavour, lady, and fail in nothing that is in my power to disoblige you; for there is none more ambitious of your ill opinion than I. Plea.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

"I'm sorry to disoblige a lady," he said; "but you don't go out of this house to-night."

From The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance by Partridge, Bernard

Then I must leave your Realm, and bid Adieu, In spite of your fond Passion, or my own; For I can never disoblige my Father, Though by it I were sure to gain an Empire.

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Moses, Montrose Jonas

He disliked very much to disoblige her, as she belonged to one of the most distinguished families of Georgia, and had many influential relatives among the Secessionists.

From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner

Worth's natural disposition to disoblige the lawyer could be depended on to keep from Cummings whatever information he wanted before giving us his own news.

From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by MacGowan, Alice