disoblige

Example Sentences

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She has married you because father or grandfather thought the match eligible, and because she didn't wish to disoblige them.

From International Short Stories American by Various

Mar. Do, that's a good Boy; and I won't disoblige him this two days.

From The Female Wits by Anonymous

D'Artagnan saw that he should disoblige him by again interfering.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

I'm greatly afraid I am just out of meat, Sergeant—and I'm sorry now to disoblige you, and you not being in the habit of dealing with me—— Sergeant.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

I wouldn't like to disoblige the young lady," he said; "but it's no use putting dead fish back into the stream.

From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Brazil, Angela