A good many minor people -- hotel baggagemen, clerks, etc., tram conductors, policemen and the like -- will seem to you to be monstrously rude and unobliging. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
It was the type of errand Christine was unaccustomed to perform and plainly foreign to her recognized duties; but it was difficult to be unobliging and refuse, so she took the letters and the list and departed. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
I immediately settled to start an agency for this object -- somewhat on the principle of 'Lady Guides' -- the full title being 'The agency for supplying Brothers to brotherless girls, or those with unobliging brothers.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
A tall fellow, growing a little stooped: silent, unobliging, unsociable; yet a good lodger in his way, in that he paid his rent, and never disturbed families below him with the carousals and other performances common to young bachelors. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
As I travelled along I found the natives unobliging and afraid of me. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference
I look back upon myself at this time as upon a cantankerous, ill - tempered and unobliging child. From Wordnik.com. [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference
As it was, she resolved to make one last effort to awaken her unobliging spouse to a belated sense of duty. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Mine] Reference
'Never mind,' H.O. said, 'they'll be sorry enough afterwards, nasty, unobliging things, because now they won't see the circus. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
Then West, still smiling, seized the unobliging youth by the shoulders, pinioning his arms to his sides, and pushed him away from the table and toward the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Half-Back] Reference
The youth was restrained with use-of-force procedures when he intervened as officers tried to remove two unobliging youths from his cell, said Tim Holleman, attorney for Mississippi Police. From Wordnik.com. [SunHerald.com: Featured Story] Reference
Patty watched one poor lady, who seemed to be travelling alone, and who continually inquired of the stolid and unobliging porters, "Do you speak English?" and invariably received the reply, "Non, madame; non, madame.". From Wordnik.com. [Patty in Paris] Reference
Whether owing to the dusty state of the mirror, or to the dim light, or to the unobliging shapeliness of Mr. Joseph's person, I cannot say, but, turn and twist as I would, I could not get a view of my profile sufficiently clear and complete to form a correct judgment upon. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances] Reference
"Because we have a lawyer for our trustee, who is most unobliging, and expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
Charles is such an unobliging lead in many constraints,” said the “Match Pont” actor. From Wordnik.com. [Is ‘Brideshead Revisited’ The Sleeper Hit Of The Summer? » MTV Movies Blog] Reference
"Never mind," H.O. said, "they'll be sorry enough afterwards, nasty, unobliging things, because now they won't see the circus. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
I beseech but of your exquisite mercy to refrain mouldering the clay composition of my unworthy body to impalpable dust, by the refulgence of those bright stars vulgarly called eyes, till I have lawfully wreaked my vengeance upon this unobliging caitiff, for his most disloyal obstruction of your highness’s adorable pleasure.”. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
But he was unobliging even in this. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
‘Damned unobliging young pup,’ he observed. From Wordnik.com. [Police at the Funeral]
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