obligement
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Oh, well, as long as it’s been an obligement to you, I don’t so much care,” said the virtuous Cripps.
From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Reed, Talbot Baines
Well, Louiee, he's be careful, risk notting, he's laugh w'en a'm buy some paddell, Armand he's buy some for obligement, he's not half so careful's Louiee.
From Sonnets and Other Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.
My brothers best their own obligement know; Without your charging me with what they owe.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir
But ’twould be an obligement to me if you’d go along and keep him in countenance.”
From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Raymond, Evelyn
“Perhaps,” continued MacLeod suavely, “your friend from Sleat will do a like obligement for yourself.”
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert
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