disoblige

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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

Shortly afterwards Addison went to him and said, "that some particular friends, whom he could not disoblige, insisted on its being acted."

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

I wouldn't like to disoblige the young lady," he said; "but it's no use putting dead fish back into the stream.

From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Brazil, Angela

Mar. Do, that's a good Boy; and I won't disoblige him this two days.

From The Female Wits by Anonymous

Sorry to disoblige, old feller, but I'm on duty where Miss Verbena is now, you see, as she's just promised to be my wife.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890 by Various