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.

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 Earle, Alice Morse

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

Your merit shall her beauty's power remove; Beauty but gains, obligement keeps our love.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

But ’twould be an obligement to me if you’d go along and keep him in countenance.”

From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Raymond, Evelyn