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Where this one was concerned, he hinted at something sinister, and asked pointed questions about the pistols that d'Ecquevillez had been obliging enough to furnish.

From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace

He had been on duty the afternoon previous in the place where we were being kept, and he had been obliging enough to let me exercise my few words of German upon him.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

The manager had been obliging, had looked up the message and copied it with his own hand.

From Murder at Bridge by Austin, Anne

And Captain Solomon said that they were going to that place, but he didn't know whether the elephants that Captain Jonathan had spoken of had been obliging enough to wait thirty years or not.

From The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Horne, Diantha W.

"It was," said Tartlet, "as if the sky had been obliging enough to send it down to them on a lightning flash."

From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Verne, Jules