How To Use Obliging In A Sentence

A typical nest thus pointed out by an over-obliging bird was saddled neatly on a horizontal limb of a balm tree at the height of about 30 feet from the ground and the ever-present lake.
From the first moment he interested me, especially for his obligingness and for his knowledge of local conditions.
But everyone agrees that the banks are still being disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
That was a mood encouraged by the obliging staff. Times, Sunday Times
She takes hold of my hand, and having roll'd up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss'd the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Fanny Hill, Part II (first letter)

An uncompromising and rigid republican, he was called by Clarendon ‘an absurd bold man’, and by Ludlow, who knew him well, ‘a man of a disobliging carriage, sour and morose of temper’.
A female constable obligingly stepped out whenever the men wanted access Assiya.
They boost their own expenses and expand their empires and then, when they discover that they cannot deliver services, they turn to the obliging taxpayer.
And this open-handed warmth equally encompasses the friendly, obliging ship's crew.
Not only that: he is an unobliging historian, being thin on context and causes.
I look back upon myself at this time as upon a cantankerous, ill - tempered and unobliging child. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
He takes a risk because he thinks he can get away with it because the facts may well turn out to support his editor's desire and he wants a quiet life and to be obliging.
Tom Byam Shaw's Ariel may swing on a trapeze from time to time but his speech – at first strangely elongated, then gabbled – is earthbound and he trips around the stage as if he were an obliging ballet student rather than a sharp-edged sprite. Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
He was in the habit of doing crossword puzzles while casing premises prior to breaking and entering, and would always obligingly leave them behind for police to find.
The rest of us wouldn't dare to be so disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
Some boredom existed, as in the Army during the war: and you needed luck and the obliging help of friendly men who could cover up your minor failures just as you covered up theirs.
But everyone agrees that the banks are still being disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
Only just this one thing, sir; I beg I may have the favour to be introduced to that lady as had the obligingness to call me a tinker, when I never was no such thing. ' Camilla
A very pleasant and obliging man, he gained the popularity of everybody.
Yet "Great Soul" also obligingly gives readers more than enough information to discern that he was a sexual weirdo, a political incompetent and a fanatical faddist—one who was often downright cruel to those around him. Among the Hagiographers
The design of Christianity is to soften and meeken the spirit, to teach us the art of obliging and true complaisance; not to be servants to the lust of any, but to the necessities and infirmities of our brethren -- to comply with all that we have to do with as fare as we can with a good conscience. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
She added: 'We are never personally horrible but often we say disobliging things about the food. The Sun
If they were not paid, however, mercenaries could prove disobliging, as the future Henry II discovered on his first expedition to England in 1147, when the troops he took with him failed him and fled.
Far too often of late, thunderstruck Democrats have obligingly laid down to be rolled over.
Why does everyone have to be so disobliging, just because it's Christmas?
It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
It is staffed by the most amiable and strenuously obliging bunch of cosmopolitan youngsters who appear not to have been corrupted by working in hotel chains.
The rest of us wouldn't dare to be so disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
Of our camel-men, some were Bedouin and some were negroes, and we found them on the whole honest and obliging, though with the usual keen eye for a possible bakshish, which is not uncommon elsewhere. Southern Arabia
He is a serial political apologist, saying sorry, sacrificing an aide and obliging his shadow cabinet to pay back their most egregious claims, like medieval Christians buying indulgences.
The enemy is being very obliging by saving them the journey and coming to them now.
Irritated by "disobliging" criticism of the kamikaze mission, WN.com - Articles related to 'Forbes': Woods first athlete with $1 billion in earnings
'Never mind,' H.O. said, 'they'll be sorry enough afterwards, nasty, unobliging things, because now they won't see the circus. The Wouldbegoods
Giles Terera's Caliban is no threat: merely disobliging: his "Ban Ban Caliban" riff is diminished by being ironically chanted by two of the clowns as if they were the Andrews Sisters; his rift with Prospero too chummily resolved. Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging
He bends down and tosses a stick to Baxter, who obligingly fetches it and brings it back.
The Epidamnians in 435 asked Delphi whether they should transfer their allegiance from their unobliging mother-city Corcyra to Corcyra's own mother-city Corinth.
The very happy and obliging young service ladies were resplendent in snappy white shorts and tops.
In addition, this obliging plant seeds itself freely, so the number of clumps will gradually increase over the years.
Indeed, everyone can cite cases of knavish behaviour – the bloody-minded GP receptionist, a sullen council jobsworth or disobliging clock-watchers shutting down switchboards at 4. 55pm, regardless. Loyal, public service merits more than this cold trashing
Being the humanitarian that I am, I obligingly pulled out my pocket knife – I carry a pocket knife because the walk from the parking garage to the shelter is about 1/4 of a mile and it is a sketchy neighborhood – but anyway I pulled out my pocket knife and I got it off for him. So I get arrested because HE asked me to “Get it off”? « Literacy Programs « Literacy Help « Literacy News
Outside Vealös we had the pleasure of waving a last farewell to a man to whom the expedition will always owe a debt of gratitude, Captain Christian Blom, Superintendent of the dockyard, who had supervised the extensive repairs to the Fram with unrelaxing interest and obligingness. The South Pole~ On the Way to the South
The circles of fashion afforded more than one instance of this obliging acquiescence in matrimonial turpitude. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
obligingly, he lowered his voice
However, the pleasant and obliging staff willingly produced a jug of hot water.
It may seem 'disobliging' to you, but you know that is not my motive. Katherine's Sheaves
He was fascinated by behavioural patterns and society's obedience to authority and New Yorkers were doubtless delighted when his research revealed them to be so obliging.
When I started drinking wine as a young man, quite a long time ago, I used to buy cheap Beaujolais from very obliging wine shops in London's cosmopolitan quarter, Soho.
Still, somewhere beneath your feet is a subterranean passage that obligingly ran from this all male seminary to the next door convent of Nazarene nuns.
There was an obliging clip from the awful-looking film Extreme Measures starring guest Hugh Grant.
The shop and entresol at that time were tenanted by a tinman; the landlord occupied the first floor; the four upper stories were rented by very decent working girls, who were treated by the portress and the proprietor with some consideration and an obligingness called forth by the difficulty of letting a house so oddly constructed and situated. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
That was a mood encouraged by the obliging staff. Times, Sunday Times
I turned and held my wrists out to the guard, which he obligingly cuffed for me before leading me round into another corridor, and the interrogation rooms.
By obliging aspirant doctors to take two university degrees, the state would effectively ensure that a medical career is open only to the sons and daughters of the wealthy.
Consigned by a disobliging fate to the era of Gladstone and Guizot, he has far less in common with those worthies than with Rafael Trujillo and with Papa Doc.
Certain gestures could also serve as distress signals, obliging fellow Masons to come to the aid of a ‘Brother.’
That is very disobliging of the honourable Gentleman, who was being kind to me earlier.
Last year Hitchens told an English interviewer that he is ready to remember even more disobliging material from that lunch, in the event that Blumenthal takes after him in the upcoming memoir.
Ronnie Campbell, a north-eastern MP, was most disobliging about Branson, whom he described as a "goody two-shoes" who might very well ditch the north-east and move the operation to London, or even offshore. A rocky ride in the Commons for bank sale | Simon Hoggart's sketch
The federal government obligingly constructed logging roads into the wildernesses at public expense to accommodate the trucks and men and machinery.
The walls drip, the shadows loom and the rumbling trains obligingly sound like an elemental avalanche. Times, Sunday Times
He found that Lord Macartney, in order to frighten the Court of Directors from the project of obliging the Nabob to give soucar security for his debt, assured them, that, if they should take that step, Benfield [60] would infallibly be the soucar, and would thereby become the entire master of the Carnatic. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
Lion Wharf Road seemed to offer a route to the water's edge, but a brown heritage signpost said there was no through route and I couldn't see how to get on to the disobliging path anyway. Running London (A Marathon Endeavour): Leg 3 - Hounslow West to Kew Gardens
They were back in the lead when Naas conceded a penalty right under the posts for going over the top; Flood obliging.
(Most of it on days when Levin or Hannity or Hugh Hewitt or Limbaugh himself has had something especially disobliging to say about me.) Sunday Reading
And this open-handed warmth equally encompasses the friendly, obliging ship's crew.
No; they's Harlem people, I guess -- jes 'catchin' the Elevated -- that's all, sir," he answered obligingly. The Damnation of Theron Ware
He puts all his materials and maneuvers in plain sight, almost like the magician who obligingly shows you that there's nothing up his sleeve before he dumbfounds you.
A rather disobliging vote of thanks from Mr Stuart Fraser pointed out that another firm that valued employee participation was Lehman Brothers, whose collapse started the present crisis. Nick Clegg plays the John Lewis card among the City's 'have-yachts' | Simon Hoggart
Bush was instead the president as major-domo: a succession of patrons from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan had found uses for his excellent manners and his obliging nature in subordinate roles and then had left him to manage the national estate just as the bills were coming due. America Changes The Guard
Typically in a robot film, the script eventually calls for the obliging machine to override its software program and run amok, wreaking vengeance on its masters.
He was the salt of the earth, a man who was very obliging and very quiet.
the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave
It is enough to say that Hamilton represents himself as by no means an ardent nympholept, or even as flattered by demi-goddess-like advances, which are of the most obliging description; and that the lady has not only to make fuller and fuller revelations of her beauty, but at last to exert her supernatural power to some extent in order to carry the recreant into her "cool grot," not, indeed, under water, but invisibly situated on land. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
So in I gently drew her to the compter, running behind it myself, with an air of great dilingence and obligingness. Clarissa Harlowe
He was not frightened to help people out and was a very obliging fellow.
The farmer and our taxi drivers obligingly moved some of the corn bales to reveal amazing frescoes of the Dormition and the Entry into Jerusalem, the paint having been unwittingly preserved by the bales.
A good many minor people -- hotel baggagemen, clerks, etc., tram conductors, policemen and the like -- will seem to you to be monstrously rude and unobliging. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
After leaving the city and its suburbs and crossing the point of the cape to Simon Town, where is located the naval station and a more secure anchorage, one passes over deserts of sand over which a wind called the "harmattan" blows with great force and fury, obliging one to veil the face to protect the eyes from the refraction of the sun's rays as well as the sand. Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama",
Where the speech should have recognised my input, there would sometimes be a disobliging reference to 18 wasted years.
The reason for this exemption, according to the reasoning of the bill, is the lack of an international standard and practice obliging such persons to report suspicious operations and transactions.
Of course you could borrow one from an obliging neighbour, but they are then in the same precarious position.
This is where the Beeb had a less obliging audience for fielding its questions.
The birds then obligingly dropped their feces into well-placed plastic flowerpots near popular perches throughout a large, wooded test area.
The New York hackmen, for instance, are very obliging and attentive; but if it would not seem ungrateful, I would hazard the statement that their attentions are unremitting to the degree of being almost embarrassing, and proffered to the verge of obtrusiveness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
As for what repels me in historical fiction, I'm not keen on novels about heroines they always seem to be heroines who have visions or mystical leanings or on novels about heroines who experience a sexual awakening at the hands of an obliging artist, peasant, or ratcatcher. Appealing historical fiction
She said she was niece to a pewterer of considerable circumstances, not far from Tower Hill, who had promised, and was able to give her five hundred pounds; but the fear of disobliging him by marriage, hindered her from thinking of becoming a wife without his approbation of her spouse. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
The stream looked lovely, with shallow runs interspersed with deep gorges; the trout however were not very obliging!
-- When an Irish gentleman, like Sir Kit Rackrent, has lived beyond his income, and finds himself distressed for ready money, tenants obligingly offer to take his land at a rent far below the value, and to pay him a small sum of money in hand, which they call fining down the yearly rent. Castle Rackrent
It is true that the Labour party that now presses this case once rigged the NHS rules in favour of private providers, and also that Mr Clegg, who is now charged with seeing to it that it prevails, has said disobliging things about the health service in the past. Health service: the concession that counts
For added insulation, musk oxen grow a second fur layer each winter, an undercoat called qiviut that is said to be many times warmer than wool and softer than cashmere - and how obliging of the animals to shed that qiviut in spring for use in scarves. NYT > Home Page
The exhibition is an intriguing throwback to another era: a world of louche nightclubs, obliging hostesses and champagne all round. Times, Sunday Times
It is as if the actors in a burlesque had one by one left the stage and obligingly posed for a photographist.
_Charity suffereth long_ -- μακροθυμει -- it bears patiently with other men's defects of temper, discourteousness of behaviour, and awkwardness of manner; and is _kind_, gentle, and obliging -- χρηστευεται. Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew
As it was, she resolved to make one last effort to awaken her unobliging spouse to a belated sense of duty. Baby Mine
Famously, Connolly is protected by one of the most disobliging management teams in show business, a company with an answerphone message that might as well be the single word ‘No‘.
`My Lord Rakewell always was an obliging spark, full of merry jest and capers. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Her gentle, good humoured and obliging nature, mild manner and unassuming disposition commended her to all fortunate enough to make her acquaintance.
He obligingly played the traditional Arabic instrument, the oud, and sang.
It passed a trend-setting recycling law in 1991 and was a pioneer of "feed-in tariffs", obliging utilities to buy power generated by renewable sources at prices that reflect their higher costs.
Don't forget, we had to request these documents through the disobliging chief auditor.
T bank of colorado how downstage or devalued manhunt is in clenched http if his actinozoa peruvian in a disobliging zeppo of galega and venturous. Rational Review
Yes, it's nearly Christmas - so my TV has obligingly conked out again.
Asked in Europe for her name at airport immigration, for instance, she was fiercely disobliging.
Reasonable people will view that as disobliging at worst. Times, Sunday Times
He now obligingly gave me part of that authentick information, which, with what I afterwards owed to his kindness, will be found incorporated in its proper place in this work. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
She takes hold of my hand, and having rolled up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I missed the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
The halfway war starts out as a battle that is not, in the first flush of romance, recognised as the beginning of a war at all: it starts out as the battle of obligingness.
I picked up the trail of his family -- not easy back in the dark ages of 2005 before certain handy databases existed -- and found a good-natured great-niece who obligingly swabbed for history's sake. Megan Smolenyak: USS Monitor: Could William Bryan Be One of the Skeletons in the Turret?
I immediately settled to start an agency for this object -- somewhat on the principle of 'Lady Guides' -- the full title being 'The agency for supplying Brothers to brotherless girls, or those with unobliging brothers.' The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
In their disposition they are courteous and obliging; and they are not in the least addicted to pilfering, which is more than can be asserted concerning any other nation in this sea. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
I will call it, which has, on all proper occasions, exerted itself in its full lustre, unmingled with that charming obligingness and condescending sweetness, which is evermore the softener of that dignity, when your mind is free and unapprehen-sive! Clarissa Harlowe
In his mind Harry began going over the internal mechanisms of this particular old heap of unobliging metal.
Amar and his friends tried their best to turn the area into a dance floor, inviting an unobliging audience with some neat hip-hop moves.
Her gentle, good humoured and obliging nature, mild manner and unassuming disposition commended her to all fortunate enough to make her acquaintance.
An explanation of the above difficulty from some obliging and better-informed photographist would be very thankfully received by Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
If, however, you would like to decide for yourself, he obligingly includes a list of jinn names. The Times Literary Supplement
Your own obliging manner will disarm hostile types.
I remained calm, charming, witty and obliging. Times, Sunday Times
Joe ordered two packs of baloney from the store with the intention that we could save big money and use some for lunchmeat, so earlier this week I obligingly made myself a sandwich to take to work.
Lon tucked his Padawan braid safely behind his ear and obligingly picked up the giggling infant.
Kit Rackrent, has lived beyond his income, and finds himself distressed for ready money, tenants obligingly offer to take his land at a rent far below the value, and to pay him a small sum of money in hand, which they call fining down the yearly rent. Tales and Novels — Volume 04
It was the type of errand Christine was unaccustomed to perform and plainly foreign to her recognized duties; but it was difficult to be unobliging and refuse, so she took the letters and the list and departed. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
I'm terribly sorry your father and I have been so unobliging, Eleanor, in not perishing in a more timely manner.
Patty watched one poor lady, who seemed to be travelling alone, and who continually inquired of the stolid and unobliging porters, "Do you speak English?" and invariably received the reply, "Non, madame; non, madame. Patty in Paris
Tommie was regarded among all who knew him as a very decent and obliging man.
If you have no obliging local fishmonger, use a pound or more of white fish. Times, Sunday Times
I drew Joe away, and he immediately became placable; merely stating to me, in an obliging manner and as a polite expostulatory notice to any one whom it might happen to concern, that he were not Great Expectations
Indeed, the fitter subject for ridicule with thee; who canst no more taste the beauty and delicacy of modest obligingness than of modest love. Clarissa Harlowe
Sorry to be so disobliging , but I have no money to lend you.
She added: 'We are never personally horrible but often we say disobliging things about the food. The Sun
He took up the job as caretaker of Mount Sion Secondary School, and his obliging manner made him very popular with teachers and pupils alike.
Then West, still smiling, seized the unobliging youth by the shoulders, pinioning his arms to his sides, and pushed him away from the table and toward the door. The Half-Back
By the age of five her mother was happy to hand over the little girl's care whenever she could to an obliging friend.
The Expedition owes great obligations to the Lords of the Admiralty for their unvarying readiness to render us every assistance in their power; and to the warm-hearted and ever-obliging hydrographer to the A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
The name caused a lot of bemusement, but over the course of his life Dryfess obligingly chose to respond to several different variations of it.
The rest of us wouldn't dare to be so disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
“My back itches, Spiller,” Galan said, and Spiller took off the bandage and poulticed the wound with foul-smelling liniment, and obligingly scratched up and down his spine. Wildfire
New York City is preparing for a drastic new approach to noise such as as giving barking dogs five minutes to cease yapping at night and obliging ice cream vans to replace their musical jingles with bells.
I only got my own son to leave home by writing a disobliging article about it in a newspaper, but that's not a remedy open to everyone.
Thomas, (as I suppose,) said, God bless you, madam, and reward you, as your obligingness to my good master deserves; and may we all live to see you triumph over Mrs. Jewkes! Pamela
Men can take the weight off their feet by reclining on leather settees while watching international football and rugby on TV and being handed small quantities of beer, crisps and nuts by obliging sales staff.
The prices for all three of these lines are as friendly as the store's obliging staff. Times, Sunday Times
He touched a marker for a dense neutron star at the conflux of several lines, and it flashed obligingly. Star Trek The Next Generation®
One thing is certain, the Fed is now playing a very weak hand, and markets have an unobliging way of exposing and punishing weak hands.
But it must be said that all this came better and more happily in a fruitful and lonely island, where nothing presented itself to me save smiling pictures, where nothing recalled saddening memories, where the fellowship of the few dwellers there was gentle and obliging, without being exciting enough to busy me incessantly, where, in short, I was free to surrender myself all day long to the promptings of my taste or to the most luxurious indolence .... Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
Yes," they replied, at once; for the brant is a bird of a very obliging disposition. The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends
Obliging, he lifted the lid and stared with spontaneous admiration at the dozen roses.
Although I know not, I dare say it is owing to some petty petulance, to some half-ungenerous advantage taken of his obligingness and assiduity. Clarissa Harlowe
He is an extremely pleasant and obliging man.
The obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave.
And what an unworthy wife must I be to any man who cannot have interest enough in my heart to make his obligingness a balance for an affliction he has not caused! Clarissa Harlowe
And this open-handed warmth equally encompasses the friendly, obliging ship's crew.
But everyone agrees that the banks are still being disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
Tommie was regarded among all who knew him as a very decent and obliging man.
He is a diamond of the first water, always obliging.
These sites, valuable rather than holy, help us to recover perspective, reorder our ambitions, quell our paranoias and remind us of the interest and obliging unexpectedness of life. Have Modern Travelers Lost Their Way?
Your unconscious will see to it that you forget the book, but you don't wish to appear unobliging and will therefore do everything not to forget it.
She went after me on a few occasions for using a nom-de-plume; I would obligingly uncloak, but it never made a difference. Archive 2006-03-01
Kevin will best be remembered as an obliging and jocular butcher who ran the family business at 82 Main Street for 65 years.
Animals don't come off assembly lines, nor do they obligingly stand around broadside while the hunter finds a solid rest and manipulates the power ring.
We use aussie slang, spell differently, drawl with our voices, love the great outdoors, are carefree, layback and obliging people. This is the edge and it ROCKS!
Ritchie obligingly came up with the idea of casting the US superstar as an Irish bare-knuckle gypsy boxer.
She added: 'We are never personally horrible but often we say disobliging things about the food. The Sun
You can say what you like about the prime minister - and I have said, and will continue to say, some disobliging things - but he has participated in the toppling of two tyrants.
He shifts in his seat, he shuffles bits of paper and his dark eyes flick around the room, occasionally alighting on a person who might once have said or written something disobliging about him. Mark Cavendish is no mountain man, but he adores the Giro d'Italia
I remained calm, charming, witty and obliging. Times, Sunday Times
Caris warming obligingness made me feel very much at home from the first day!
It would cost her some effort to do so, he was so sincere, good-humoured, conversable, and obliging. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
So, an obliging booking clerk spent ages delving through timetables and suggested she go via Sheffield and Leicester, at a cost of £46.
Wexford found the lead, obligingly left by Sheila in a prominent position on top of the refrigerator.
Some like feisty, noisy, slightly aggressive animals but others, like me, prefer inert but cheerfully disobliging ones.
He is an extremely pleasant and obliging man.
Ronnie Campbell, a north-eastern MP, was most disobliging about Branson, whom he described as a "goody two-shoes" who might very well ditch the north-east and move the operation to London, or even offshore. A rocky ride in the Commons for bank sale | Simon Hoggart's sketch
Gerard was described this week as a lovely, obliging man.
Reasonable people will view that as disobliging at worst. Times, Sunday Times
Dressed in all black and sporting a new look for his next film with Shankar, the actor was his usual calm self, meeting industry colleagues, giving quick television bytes and obliging fans with autographs.
The figure tramped through the alleys, forgoing the masses of disobliging people for the emptiness of the slums.
Most obliging and affable we wish him a good finish to the handballing year.
A grass snake swimming obligingly from island to bank in full view of watchers.
The fact that the stock market obligingly went down the tubes in the last two days was the sheerest accident. Greetings from May 08, 2009. | RedState
When I started drinking wine as a young man, quite a long time ago, I used to buy cheap Beaujolais from very obliging wine shops in London's cosmopolitan quarter, Soho.
This being more than was expeded, his holi - ncfs feemed agreeably furprifpd 5 raifed the duke with a fniile, and converfed with him in an obliging manner, faying fomething to each of the company. Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ...
I made a disobliging reference to Pinter in my piece, and then discovered before the deadline that the speech had actually been delivered the day before.
The walls drip, the shadows loom and the rumbling trains obligingly sound like an elemental avalanche. Times, Sunday Times
All the rest of that game until the eighth, chukker after chukker, the Rajputs managed to reverse the usual procedure, obliging the English team to wear itself out in terrific efforts to break away, tiring men and ponies in a tight scramble in which neither side could score. Guns of the Gods
Upon most occasions, a important way to improve it is to take bath regularly, shave beard obligingly, wear clean clothes and try the up-to-date style.
-- 352 parliamentarians of Paris had an indult, that is to say, the right of obliging collators and church patrons to bestow the first vacant benefice either on himself or on one of his children, relations or friends. The Modern Regime, Volume 2
In Kerala, where Islam came through traders, travelers and missionaries, rather than by the sword, the Zamorin of Calicut was so impressed by the seafaring skills of this community that he issued a decree obliging each fisherman's family to bring up one son as a Muslim to man his all-Muslim navy! Shashi Tharoor: Indian Strategic Power: Soft
The second trump is the kindness and obligingness of the staff.
Saab obligingly knocked out a real life model complete with armour plating, steel ramming bumpers and oxygen masks.
The prices for all three of these lines are as friendly as the store's obliging staff. Times, Sunday Times
They were not as obliging as she was about disappearing before the weekly workshop.
The shop assistant was very obliging.
A tall fellow, growing a little stooped: silent, unobliging, unsociable; yet a good lodger in his way, in that he paid his rent, and never disturbed families below him with the carousals and other performances common to young bachelors. The Genius
He is a very pleasant and obliging character, and dotingly fond of little Alex, from knowing and loving and honouring all his family; and this you will a little guess is something of an avenue to a certain urchin's madre. Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
In his mind Harry began going over the internal mechanisms of this particular old heap of unobliging metal.
Her gentle, good humoured and obliging nature, mild manner and unassuming disposition commended her to all fortunate enough to make her acquaintance.
Their behaviour to him, when they could not help seeing him, was very cold and disobliging; but as yet not directly affrontive. Clarissa Harlowe
Her micro-course crème brûlées were faultless, the caramel cracking obligingly with the lightest tap of a spoon, the base just on the oozing side of set.

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