disoblige
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I will teach you to dare importune Mr. Gorgibus, and plague him with your absurdities!——Ah! my brother … ——Hold your tongue, I tell you.——I would not disoblige … —— … Be silent, rascal.——
From The Flying Doctor (Le Médecin Volant) by Charles Heron Wall
Mr. Lyon looked a little disturbed; but his manner was perfect, as he replied that he regretted to seem to disoblige, but that he feared the conditions of their little bet would not allow it.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
"I am sorry to disoblige you, but I really couldn't."
From Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune by Horatio Alger
"I am sorry to disoblige you, Mr. Tom Thornton; but I must respectfully decline to give you any information on that point," I answered, firmly.
From Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy by Oliver Optic
He had too much regard for his own interest, and his tenure of office, to disoblige a man so influential and powerful as Alderman Morris.
From The Young Adventurer or Tom's Trip Across the Plains by Horatio Alger
"Why?" cry I, again letting fall my volume, and yielding to a curiosity as irresistible as unwise; for he had meant me to ask, and would have been disobliged if I had not.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
De Pradt, and many other of those statesmen whom Napoleon, in latter days, had disgraced or disobliged, were, ere this time, labouring diligently in the same service.
From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Next day he made two mistakes in the first bill, disobliged a customer by surly answers, and dated all his entries in the journal in a wrong month.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson
There is a greatness and height in it, to love them that deserve not well of us, to be kind to the unfaithful, not to be easily provoked, and not soon disobliged.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
Poor dear was disobliged by the mere sight of a bo't.
From The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
A few are offering the odd disobliging word about Mr Dowden, suggesting he never wanted to be party chairman in the first place and was very disappointed to be demoted from being culture secretary.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2022
As one disobliging student says of them, “The only thing they care about is looking like they care.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2016
"You know, the great British portraitist. He was jealous of the prices she commanded and in his work Oriental Tales he was most disobliging about her. Said she was feeble and vulgar!"
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2015
Mr Poon's ancestors were dotted in random, disobliging clumps over the entire hillside, thus attesting to Wallace that key characteristics of that irksome family were transmitted beyond death itself.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2012
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
