Use "obliging" in a sentence

1. Richard was so obliging that he virtually let her and

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2. obliging to offer their space for the sake of the children, as

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3. They were generally at the same time erected into a commonalty or corporation, with the privilege of having magistrates and a town-council of their own, of making bye-laws for their own government, of building walls for their own defence, and of reducing all their inhabitants under a sort of military discipline, by obliging them to watch and ward; that is, as anciently understood, to guard and defend those walls against all attacks and surprises, by night as well as by day

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4. In countries such as Italy or Switzerland, in which, on account either of their distance from the principal seat of government, of the natural strength of the country itself, or of some other reason, the sovereign came to lose the whole of his authority; the cities generally became independent republics, and conquered all the nobility in their neighbourhood; obliging them to pull down their castles in the country, and to live, like other peaceable inhabitants, in the city

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5. unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families, by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils

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6. By obliging the farmer to carry on two trades instead of one, it forced him to divide his capital into two parts, of which one only could be employed in cultivation

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7. There seems to be a hardship in obliging the proprietor to pay a tax for an untenanted house, from which he can derive no revenue, especially so very heavy a tax

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8. kinder, more obliging than she used to be

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9. A depleted treasury must find creative ways of raising revenue however dry the well in order to pacify the demands of its citizens; engendering more spending promoting a vicious cycle of tax and spending policies sapping the energies and moral vitality of its productive citizens who grow increasingly cynical while the Rabble grows more demanding and the government more obliging

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10. She had been more than obliging in satisfying his needs

11. obliging, helpful-- not now and then, but all the time

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12. More than a dozen such proffers were made, and he utilized each one as an opportunity for imparting some thought of spiritual ennoblement by well-chosen words or by some obliging service

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13. Obliging, the man carried his wife towards the wall and hesitated by the stranger who said nothing but allowed him to pass

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14. Our each and every request was her obliging, dutiful

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15. She was obliging, and made change for hi, from her apron pocket, obviously a solidifying of her day's tips

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16. I hoped she wasn’t getting her hopes up after our little cuddle, as I was far from certain that I would be physically capable of obliging her, what with me being a zombie and all

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17. Transparency by observing what's happen, recording experiences, thoughts and feelings has a great meaning in cooperation rather than confrontation obliging us into partnership for putting the past behind

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18. He thinks that by rendering that service, he is obliging

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19. The obliging actress beamed widely

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20. But contemporary spontaneous sex is not dependent upon romantic courtship; it is a biological drive that can be divorced from the constraints of traditional sexual love and does not even require any formal pretense of caring for the obliging partner

21. Google is a better parent; more honest, obliging and without censor and prejudicial error (but not without framing bias)

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22. The man was actually friendly and obliging, and so taken by the sight of me that he selected

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23. The rich man increased the tightening of his hand, calling up all his energies so that he might defeat the invisible force which was obliging his hand to open

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24. The sign of God’s true men is that they draw our attention, thought and appreciation to our Creator, the Gracious and the Obliging for all creation, who provides food, drink, and life

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25. This startles Cass into obliging his uncle's request

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26. “We’re leaving in a couple of hours,” she said, to which he muttered a nonchalant “uh um,” obliging her to continue

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27. “The committee has decided” he proclaimed, obliging the now beaming Sean to accept the funnel to his lips, “that your forfeit is a quad-vod, to be washed down with a half-pint of the vilest concoction of sangria and punch ever mixed at this fine hotel

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28. The task proved beyond him, and he found himself forced to move himself backwards to lean against the door, obliging Louise to follow his movements, but like she was auditioning to play the seven dwarfs, except with Sam’s rod where the microphone would be

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29. There is no law obliging a man to marry because some lovesick girl wants him to--if I were a man I would never marry--but I do deplore the exceeding number of the girls who want him to

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30. The landlord, as obliging a person as his wife was a capable one, had provided a cart with two long-tailed, raw-boned horses who were to come with us as far as Binz, my next stopping-place

31. At five o'clock, when I felt that a gentle shaking of Charlotte was no longer avoidable if we were to reach Binz that evening, and was preparing to apply it with cousinly gingerliness, an obliging bumble-bee who had been swinging deliciously for some minutes past in the purple flower of a foxglove on the very edge of the cliff, backed out of it and blundered so near Charlotte's face that he brushed it with his wings

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32. The instant they were on her feet, stretching out in all their hugeness far beyond the frills of her skirt and obliging her to slide instead of walk, she became gracious

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33. She came to thirst, and such was his skill that she thirsted healthily, for her husband or her father or whoever it was she had left, for worries, catastrophes, disgrace--for anything so long as it was so obliging as not to be love

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34. And there's a most intelligent person--really a most helpful, obliging person--who came with you from Dover to Ullerton

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35. She didn't like formalities and even though she was being obliging here, at the camp she was often anything but

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36. Respect can also be shown in a different way: by legally obliging every hunter to remove all the usable meat from the site of the kill

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37. Even the obliging Gilbert, who wasn't beyond indulging in a little attempted blackmail himself if he thought he could get away with it, would shy away from murder

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38. Coeper set about obliging them by causing soccer ball sized hail stones to crashed to the

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39. Is it not a fact that in the process of obliging Anil Ambani with a GSM license in ex-

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40. But, invested for the moment with extraordinary power, he raised himself completely: obliging me to rise too, or I could not have still supported him

41. Though if I were to ask two or three obliging friends, I know they would give me them, and such as the productions of those that have the highest

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42. But the chief grievance that rankled in her soul, and gave an excuse for her unfriendly conduct, was a rumor which some obliging gossip had whispered to her, that the March girls had made fun of her at the Lambs'

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43. When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness

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44. He chatted with her about the new goods from Paris, about a thousand feminine trifles, made himself very obliging, and never asked for his money

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45. adopt my child, and seemed to have no doubt of obliging Mr

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46. I had therefore nothing in the world to do, but to fancy myself in love; and as my mother did not make my home in every respect comfortable, as I had no friend, no companion in my brother, and disliked new acquaintance, it was not unnatural for me to be very often at Longstaple, where I always felt myself at home, and was always sure of a welcome; and accordingly I spent the greatest part of my time there from eighteen to nineteen: Lucy appeared everything that was amiable and obliging

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47. imagination, charmed, as I was, to have any occasion of obliging and

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48. With some cunning too, from floor to ceiling the walls were a mass of statues, gargoyles, bas-reliefs and fluted columns that cast weirdlymoving shadows when the dragon gave an obliging illumination at Twoflower's request

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49. "He was so obliging as to suggest my father for your tutor, and he called on my father to propose it

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50. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money! An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!

51. But when, by certain motions, certain unquietness of his hands, that wandered not without design, I found he languished for satisfying a curiosity, natural enough, to view and handle those parts which attract and concenter the warmest force of imagination, charmed, as I was, to have any occasion of obliging and humouring his young desires, I suffered him to proceed as he pleased, without check or control, to the satisfaction of them

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52. But the new member was, in some points, not of so tractable a nature as many of his predecessors had been; and notwithstanding all the couthy jocosity and curry-favouring of his demeanour towards us before the election, he was no sooner returned, than he began, as it were, to snap his fingers in the very faces of those of the council to whom he was most indebted, which was a thing not of very easy endurance, considering how they had taxed their consciences in his behalf; and this treatment was the more bitterly felt, as the old member had been, during the whole of his time, as considerate and obliging as could reasonably be expected; doing any little job that needed his helping hand when it was in his power, and when it was not, replying to our letters in a most discreet and civil manner

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53. Unless Rychtyr was obliging enough to screw up and let the Charisians and their Siddarmarkian allies actually cut the canal behind him before he retreated, Hanth’s troops were going to wear out a lot of perfectly good boots over the coming several months

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54. Frankly, Cudd thought there was relatively little chance of someone as canny as Rohsail obliging Earl Sharpfield that way, but it was certainly worth trying

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55. After long negotiations over the legal details, the money was at last ready to be paid; but the notary, a most obliging person, could not hand over the order, because it must have the

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56. charming a widow as she had been a girl, pleasant when she had her own way, obliging

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57. She looked, and was, frail but she was willing, obedient and obliging

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58. But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away

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59. The Baronet added in very obliging words that he himself was particularly desirous of seeing the Freshitt and Tipton estates under the same management, and he hoped to be able to show that the double agency might be held on terms agreeable to Mr

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60. I should only mind if there were a law obliging me to take any piece of blood and beauty that she or anybody else recommended

61. No ideas or opinions could hinder him from seeing the one probability to be, that Raffles recovered would be just the same man as before, with his strength as a tormentor renewed, obliging him to drag away his wife to spend her years apart from her friends and native place, carrying an alienating suspicion against him in her heart

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62. But the Seven and Ser Lucas Longinch did not prove so obliging

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63. “Madam Fanny,” says he, obliging me, but with the same ironick Tone

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64. Market, is very obliging indeed

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65. Market," an obliging fellow who shows up every day to either buy from you or sell to you, whichever you wish

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66. He was very obliging, and offered to do anything in his power

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67. ” It was a landscape in water colours, of which I had made a present to the superintendent, in acknowledgment of her obliging mediation with the committee on my behalf, and which she had framed and glazed

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68. Many showed themselves obliging, and amiable too; and I discovered amongst them not a few examples of natural politeness, and innate self-respect, as well as of excellent capacity, that won both my goodwill and my admiration

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69. As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled

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70. Though unworthy, from inferiority of age and strength, to be their constant associate, their pleasures and schemes were sometimes of a nature to make a third very useful, especially when that third was of an obliging, yielding temper; and they could not but own, when their aunt inquired into her faults, or their brother Edmund urged her claims to their kindness, that “Fanny was good-natured enough

71. The ensuing spring deprived her of her valued friend, the old grey pony; and for some time she was in danger of feeling the loss in her health as well as in her affections; for in spite of the acknowledged importance of her riding on horse-back, no measures were taken for mounting her again, “because,” as it was observed by her aunts, “she might ride one of her cousin’s horses at any time when they did not want them,” and as the Miss Bertrams regularly wanted their horses every fine day, and had no idea of carrying their obliging manners to the sacrifice of any real pleasure, that time, of course, never came

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72. To whose happy lot was it to fall? While each of the Miss Bertrams were meditating how best, and with the most appearance of obliging the others, to secure it, the matter was settled by Mrs

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73. Norris completed the whole by thus addressing her in a whisper at once angry and audible, “What a piece of work here is about nothing: I am quite ashamed of you, Fanny, to make such a difficulty of obliging your cousins in a trifle of this sort, so kind as they are to you! Take the part with a good grace, and let us hear no more of the matter, I entreat

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74. There had, in fact, been so much of message, of allusion, of recollection, so much of Mansfield in every letter, that Fanny could not but suppose it meant for him to hear; and to find herself forced into a purpose of that kind, compelled into a correspondence which was bringing her the addresses of the man she did not love, and obliging her to administer to the adverse passion of the man she did, was cruelly mortifying

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75. Norris completed the whole by thus addressing her in a whisper at once angry and audible—"What a piece of work here is about nothing: I am quite ashamed of you, Fanny, to make such a difficulty of obliging your cousins in a trifle of this sort—so kind as they are to you! Take the part with a good grace, and let us hear no more of the matter, I entreat

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76. She was sorry, really sorry; and yet in spite of this and the two or three other things which she wished he had not said, she thought him altogether improved since she had seen him; he was much more gentle, obliging, and attentive to other people's feelings than he had ever been at Mansfield; she had never seen him so agreeable—so near being agreeable; his behaviour to her father could not offend, and there was something particularly kind and proper in the notice he took of Susan

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77. Chvabrine is obliging her to become his wife

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78. They were most obliging old things, ready to do anything for me, and at my request were as silent afterwards as two cast-iron posts

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79. Close to him was a narrow-minded, stupid, but good-natured and obliging fellow, a sort of Colossus, Kobylin by name

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80. "Ah, Prokofief! Jolkin too; and you, Almazof! Here, come here, all the lump of you!" cried the Major to us, with a gasp; but he was somewhat softened, his tone was even obliging

81. It seemed to me that his desire to be obliging was due more to kindness of heart than to mercenary considerations

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82. This was even then felt and understood by many, and it was then that Christ preached His teaching, which did not consist simply in this, that evil ought not to be resisted by means of violence, but in the teaching of the new comprehension of life, a part, or rather an application of which to public life was the teaching about the means for abolishing the struggle among all men, not by obliging only one part of men without a struggle to submit to what would be prescribed to them by certain authorities, but by having no one, consequently even not those (and preëminently not those) who rule, employ violence against any one, and under no consideration

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83. And it was then that Christ preached His doctrine, which not only embodied the principle of non-resistance, but which revealed a new conception of life, of which the application to social life would lead to the suppression of strife among men, not by obliging one class to yield to whatsoever authority shall ordain, but by forbidding all men, and especially those in power, to employ violence against others

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84. The wretched Governor, intoxicated with power, who had no doubt convinced himself of the necessity for this performance, counted the strokes on his fingers, while he smoked cigarette after cigarette, for the lighting of which several obliging persons hastened to offer him a burning match

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