obligingness

Example Sentences

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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)

Our young traveller became, by the next morning, very sociable with her cousins, and complied with their customs with that cheerful obligingness which has always so much distinguished her character.

From Jemima Placid or, The Advantage of Good-Nature by Kilner, Mary Ann (n?e Maze)

I can testify both to his honesty and obligingness.

From Cape Cod Folks by Greene, Sarah P. McLean

So in I gently drew her to the compter, running behind it myself, with an air of great dilingence and obligingness.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Richardson, Samuel

His compliance will follow as an act of obligingness to you.

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