obligingness
Example Sentences
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But if you will oblige me with your company tomorrow morning— No where, Sir— Only to breakfast with Miss Byron, my dear—As a mark of your obligingness, I request it.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
It was Sinclair’s trick to do things for people, and to make himself so useful that they must like first his obligingness and afterward himself.
From Whispering Smith by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
Moreover, these three were the only men who did their work on the island sullenly and unwillingly, for Chick's obligingness was merely put on as a cloak.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
He was obligingness personified to travelling Scandinavians, and was proud of having, as he thought, made the acquaintance in Rome of the flower of the good society of the Northern countries.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
Should he now give up all hope of it, and make a marriage of reason and of obligingness, such as his marriage with Miss Flaxman would assuredly be?
From The Invader A Novel by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods
