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Adjective : The clerk was most obliging. From Dictionary.com.
He was what they called "obliging" -- a man who instinctively did the thing which he saw would help another, no matter how trivial or homely it was. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896] Reference
She found no difficulty in obliging him; and. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth] Reference
WHAT delight is there in obliging those we love!. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Emily Montague] Reference
Using their answers, and my editing skills - it was only a matter of minutes before they were "obliging" my requests. From Wordnik.com. [Lost In Lima Ohio] Reference
He had not the slightest intention of so obliging us. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
"I'll tell you what I'll do," the obliging Gussie interrupted. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
And funeral directors are obliging with new ways to say goodbye. From Wordnik.com. [So Many Ways To Say Goodbye] Reference
"I've brought overalls and I'm said to be willing and obliging.". From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
It is thus that his follies have been encouraged by obliging friends. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"You just keep quiet and I'll mop you up a bit," returned the obliging. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
A good man, an obliging patient, his tee shirt was already rolled up to his chest. From Wordnik.com. [Survivor] Reference
Then Congress was set to pass a bill obliging schools to teach 21st-century socialism. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Drain] Reference
I found him just as I had known him in his youth, lively, rather wild, but kind and obliging. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Being patient and obliging, said a young lady, has cheated me out of my rights so many times. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
Labor Day has the CW in the mood for productive negotiations -- but the world isn't always obliging. From Wordnik.com. [Negotiations Edition] Reference
I'm pleased to say we are now two for two in the obliging, funny, disarmingly nice celebrity stakes. From Wordnik.com. [Editor's Letter] Reference
The young lady in charge was the kindest and most obliging dispenser of sweets that any child had ever yet seen. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Clinton doesn't mind being cited when the topic is the economy, and the candidates were obliging in South Carolina. From Wordnik.com. [A Long Shadow] Reference
Nor did the frank and open countenance of Arnod, his obliging habits, and steady conduct, argue their judgment incorrect. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
To Keene he was, as the artist confessed, "a very obliging correspondent," who sketched well and sent him many suggestions. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
That will mean advising Obama on what changes the military can (and cannot) withstand and then obliging troops to accept them. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Ask Too Fast] Reference
Mr. Cline, who in July last was so obliging at my request as to try the efficacy of the cow-pox virus, was kind enough to give me. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The American was an obliging opponent, his mistimed challenge enabling Wayne Rooney to end his 150-day run without scoring a goal. From Wordnik.com. [West Ham fans resort to humour after mauling at Manchester United] Reference
By taking her away from all society, lodging her in a comfortable manner and obliging her to work, I rendered her a valuable service. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He was not exactly the sort of personage one would desire in the rather cramped quarters of the Tartar, though he was kind and obliging. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
It was no small job and after being obliging once or twice, Katy had the happy thought of charging fifteen cents for the transformation. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
The photographer who took this picture found her most courteous and obliging, and able to converse fluently in English, French and German. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
This he did the following day, for Custance was quite an obliging man, and a personal friend of the artist who had refused the invitation. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Monsieur Choulette was talking evil of doors -- yes, of doors of houses; and he was saying also that misfortune is a very obliging old gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He had won two hundred and fifty thousand francs from Ibrahim Bey, then he had lost all, besides five thousand louis advanced by the obliging Salignon. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
An obliging reporter told readers that when one prisoner had a trial approaching, "Belva gave her some really good ideas on costuming, coiffure and general chic.". From Wordnik.com. [The Real-Life Murderesses' Row] Reference
One day, I would be an old black lady hanging on the arm of a young white man who passersby would think was an obliging stranger but who was actually my offspring. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Just Black and White] Reference
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