disoblige

Example Sentences

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Worth's natural disposition to disoblige the lawyer could be depended on to keep from Cummings whatever information he wanted before giving us his own news.

From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by MacGowan, Alice

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 Alger, Horatio

"I am sorry to disoblige you, but I really couldn't."

From Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune by Alger, Horatio

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

I am heartily sorry for it; for I declare, I would rather disoblige all the critics in the world than one of the fair sex.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George