obligement

Example Sentences

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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 MacKeracher, W. M.

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

“Oh, well, as long as it’s been an obligement to you, I don’t so much care,” said the virtuous Cripps.

From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Reed, Talbot Baines

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 Dryden, John

“Perhaps,” continued MacLeod suavely, “your friend from Sleat will do a like obligement for yourself.”

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert