Adjective : The clerk was most obliging. From Dictionary.com.
Why, truly, his last will shewed what effect your smooth obligingness had upon him! —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Only to breakfast with Miss Byron, my dear As a mark of your obligingness, I request it. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
The exertion of your native benevolence, of your natural obligingness, of your common gratitude, of your;?. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
And then a little comparative reflection — ‘O my Nancy, that you had a little of her sweet obligingness!’. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
So in I gently drew her to the compter, running behind it myself, with an air of great dilingence and obligingness. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Fear nothing, Miss Byron, said Sir Charles: your obligingness, as well as your observation, intitle you to all allowances. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Superintendent of the dockyard, who had supervised the extensive repairs to the Fram with unrelaxing interest and obligingness. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912] Reference
Will not every act of obligingness from such a one, be construed as an unmanly tameness of spirit, and entitle him the more to her disdain? —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Although I know not, I dare say it is owing to some petty petulance, to some half-ungenerous advantage taken of his obligingness and assiduity. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Should he now give up all hope of it, and make a marriage of reason and of obligingness, such as his marriage with Miss Flaxman would assuredly be?. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Nor trusted he his voice, lest the accent I suppose should have discovered his concern; departing in silence; though with his usual graceful obligingness. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
And what an unworthy wife must I be to any man who cannot have interest enough in my heart to make his obligingness a balance for an affliction he has not caused!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Only just this one thing, sir; I beg I may have the favour to be introduced to that lady as had the obligingness to call me a tinker, when I never was no such thing. '. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Oxford, whose bibliographical information is only exceeded by the obligingness with which he puts it at the command of others, the Rev.Dr. Macbride, Principal of Magdalene Hall. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
I can testify both to his honesty and obligingness. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod Folks] Reference
His compliance will follow as an act of obligingness to you. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)] Reference
Great courtesy, and obligingness to his friend and neighbour. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference
His obligingness touched me, his whole attitude made me think. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference
This cheerful obligingness in Ottilie gave Charlotte the greatest pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference
Working in, I can see, my own obligingness and amiability with every stitch. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
This is a sound and obligingness more obligingness leads to a harmony in hesitation. From Wordnik.com. [Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms] Reference
Then would he, with his usual obligingness, write down his mimic English echo of Schiller's. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference
Only to breakfast with Miss Byron, my dear -- As a mark of your obligingness, I request it. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)] Reference
Frau Wetterhahn was all obligingness, hearing Lady Brierley's name, and made them right welcome. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Coil] Reference
The feminist icon Gloria Steinem advocated swapping obligingness for a good deal of foot-stamping. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
No one knows better than you how to relieve the virtue of obligingness by the most cordial kindness. From Wordnik.com. [Letters]
He would never succeed in passing with the little car if the people did not evince some obligingness. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4] Reference
'Lucy is a very nice, pleasant inmate; her ready obligingness and facility of adapting herself make her very agreeable.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
And first, that it was with such condescension and obligingness to the meanest of his Clergy, as to know and be known to them. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2] Reference
DIAMOND, particularly for the valuable information communicated through "N. & Q.," and his obligingness in answering inquiries. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
This kind affection puts us on to express ourselves both in word and action with the greatest courtesy and obligingness that may be. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
All declared themselves charmed with Caroline; for, from the praise of youth, beauty, and obligingness, none dared openly to dissent. From Wordnik.com. [Things By Their Right Names] Reference
I acquit myself herewith of my little debt of one hundred thalers, with many thanks for your obligingness, until the case arises again. From Wordnik.com. [Letters]
But give people an inch, and they take an ell, and your ever ready obligingness will injure you, for the harder it is to win a thing the higher its value becomes. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Mrs. Lewin promised the white and silver mantua, and as many of the new clothes as a supernatural address, industry, and obligingness, could produce within the time. From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
A civil answer to a civil question is no more than a beggar's rights, and no less than a king's obligingness. ". From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
A manner naturally easy, and carefully formed to general civility and obligingness, they possessed its favour as well as its admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
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