Example Sentences

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He deserves to be well off, for his obligingness.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan

It was Sinclair’s trick to do things for people, and to make himself so useful that they must like first his obligingness and afterward himself.

From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

Mervyn let her alone, and might have seemed absolutely indifferent, but for the cessation of all complaints of Hyères, and for the noteworthy brightness, obligingness, and good humour of his manners. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

But here the madame's obligingness quite deserts her.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

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 Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 by Walton, Izaak