disoblige
Example Sentences
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"He's a good sort of man, and won't disoblige me, I'll warrant."
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
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
But there again—he could not be vicious simply to oblige these ladies, or rather to disoblige them; he must be what it seemed good to him to be.
From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
True, Sir Luke—and I am afraid my father and mother will begin to be uneasy that I have not got one yet—and I shou'd be very sorry to disoblige them.
From Such Things Are A Play, in Five Acts by Inchbald, Mrs.
To inconvenience and disoblige so large a constituency as this may naturally produce some effect.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore