obligingness

Example Sentences

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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)

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

From The End of a Coil by Warner, Susan

According to that system the best thing for a man to do is to marry of set purpose out of sheer obligingness and courtesy.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

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 Schubin, Ossip

And what a smile of attentive obligingness, of incorruptible innocence, of affectionate submission, of boundless gratitude and total self-abandonment lit up, at the least caress, that adorable mask of ugliness!

From Our Friend the Dog by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander