obligement
Example Sentences
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“Perhaps,” continued MacLeod suavely, “your friend from Sleat will do a like obligement for yourself.”
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr
This was an obligement never to be forgotten, and the more to be considered because antecedent to her love.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
Well, Louiee, he's be careful, risk notting, he's laugh w'en a'm buy some paddell, Armand he's buy some for obligement, he's not half so careful's Louiee.
From Sonnets and Other Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
My brothers best their own obligement know; Without your charging me with what they owe.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott
I doubt not but it will be taken as acceptable service to God’s church and beleeve it a very thankeful obligement to Honoured Sir, Your truely Loving Brother,” Thomas Disney.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle