obligingness
Example Sentences
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The hotel, too, from what we saw of it, pleased us greatly, and the landlady, like most of the people we have to do with in these parts, was all kindness, obligingness, and good-nature.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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
Therefore, if this work has any merit, no small part of it is due to Signor Foucard's obligingness.
From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius
This was really unwelcome to him, but Elsa suspected the contrary, and as he had not the common habit of afterwards complaining of his obligingness, she remained of the same opinion.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
Although I know not, I dare say it is owing to some petty petulance, to some half-ungenerous advantage taken of his obligingness and assiduity.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson
