obligingness

Example Sentences

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But here the madame's obligingness quite deserts her.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

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 Richardson, Samuel

As for Lord G——, were I to accustom him to obligingness, I should destroy my own consequence: for then it would be no novelty; and he would be hunting after a new folly.—Very true, Harriet.

From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel

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 Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa)

Dr. Diamond's Process for Albumenized Paper.—Photographers are under many obligations to Dr. Diamond, particularly for the valuable information communicated through "N. & Q.," and his obligingness in answering inquiries.

From Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George