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So in I gently drew her to the compter, running behind it myself, with an air of great dilingence and obligingness.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Richardson, Samuel

The hotel, too, from what we saw of it, pleased us greatly, and the landlady, like most of the people we have to do with in these parts, was all kindness, obligingness, and good-nature.

From Holidays in Eastern France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

This cheerful obligingness in Ottilie gave Charlotte the greatest pleasure.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

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)

An invitation to inspect the Indian rarities followed later, and we drove in my pony carriage to Rosings, and were received with all Mrs Darcy's obligingness.

From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)