obligement
Example Sentences
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I doubt not but it will be taken as acceptable service to God’s church and beleeve it a very thankeful obligement to Honoured Sir, Your truely Loving Brother,” Thomas Disney.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
“Perhaps,” continued MacLeod suavely, “your friend from Sleat will do a like obligement for yourself.”
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr
This was an obligement never to be forgotten, and the more to be considered because antecedent to her love.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
Your merit shall her beauty's power remove; Beauty but gains, obligement keeps our love.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
But since by no obligement she is tied, You must betimes for your defence provide.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
