And will she not think herself the obliged, rather than the obliger?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

L'arnaque se trouve dans le fait que si vous lisez peu vous vous retrouvez obliger de payer une selection de livres faite par eux.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

Sir Charles Who that lies under obligations which they cannot return, can view the obliger but with the most delicate sensibility?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

Monsieur, lui répondit le recteur, je suis fâché de ne pouvoir vous obliger davantage, mais nous ne recevons ici que les ânes.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Conversation and Composition] Reference

And this being kept in mind, will always contribute to make the benefited receive, as thankfully as they ought, the favours of the obliger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

What need you give one to imagine, my dear, that the last month or two has been a period extremely favourable to that other person, whom it has made an obliger of the niece for his patience with the uncles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

No tax on notes, bonds, &c, when payer or obliger is insolvent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, from the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive. Arranged in Chronological Order. Together with the Constitution for the Provisional Government, and the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and the Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States with Indian Tribes:] Reference

The notions of the obliged are changed, those of the obliger ought to change also.    From Wordnik.com.  [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference

And universally, for the same reason, all obligations are determinable at the will of the obliger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference

And who, despairing to be able ever to return the obligation, are ready to quarrel with the obliger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

Lastly, there is the idea of obligation, its nature and source, the obliger and the sanction, the penalty and the reward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enquiry Concerning Political Justice] Reference

If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive -- solicit even -- favours, than accord them; for the vanity of the obliger is always flattered -- that of the obligee rarely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

After all, Mr.B. would never have married Pamela if he could have persuaded her to live with him in any other way; so the cringing gratitude expressed by Pamela and her parents to the "good gentleman" and the "dear obliger" is only revolting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters on Literature] Reference

Have or establish a relationship to; "She relates well to her peers" oblige - provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige him" obliger; to be obliged to sb for sth →.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word of the Day] Reference

Conseil estime qu’il faudroit recourir au Pape, qui a le droit d’expliquer les regles de l’eglise, & d’y deroger dans le cas, ou la loi ne scauroit obliger, quelque sage & quelque utile que paroisse la maniere de baptiser dont il s’agit, le Conseil ne pourroit l’approver sans le concours de ces deux autorites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

The dear obliger went and changed his dress in an instant; and he led me to the chariot, with his usual tender politeness, and we had a charming airing of several miles; returning quite happy, cheerful, and delighted with each other’s conversation, without calling in upon any of our good neighbours: for what need of that, my dear, when we could be the best company in the world to each other?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

Ah! mon amour te va bien obliger.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

In every case, the teacher is the obliger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

Is to restrain the obliger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference

There can be no obligation without an obliger.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays] Reference

FORCER, obliger.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Conversation and Composition] Reference

CONTRAINDRE, obliger.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Conversation and Composition] Reference