obligingness

Example Sentences

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I can testify both to his honesty and obligingness.

From Cape Cod Folks by Greene, Sarah P. McLean

Indeed, the fitter subject for ridicule with thee; who canst no more taste the beauty and delicacy of modest obligingness than of modest love.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel

Mervyn let her alone, and might have seemed absolutely indifferent, but for the cessation of all complaints of Hyères, and for the noteworthy brightness, obligingness, and good humour of his manners. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

We went in, saw his very beautiful collection, the Professor himself doing the honours with so much obligingness, that we left him convinced that he neither sold coin nor dispensed anathemas.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

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