obligingness

Example Sentences

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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)

Frau Wetterhahn was all obligingness, hearing Lady Brierley's name, and made them right welcome.

From The End of a Coil by Warner, Susan

An invitation to inspect the Indian rarities followed later, and we drove in my pony carriage to Rosings, and were received with all Mrs Darcy's obligingness.

From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)

It was Sinclair’s trick to do things for people, and to make himself so useful that they must like first his obligingness and afterward himself.

From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

Why, truly, his last will shewed what effect your smooth obligingness had upon him!—To leave the acquired part of his estate from the next heirs, his own sons, to a grandchild; to his youngest grandchild!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel