Obliges

Examples

• And he indirectly obliges me to force them, if I give her his message. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I only say to you what the lamentable state of my health obliges me to say to everybody. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My objection is, that your proposal obliges us to wait. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• While it obliges the people to pay, it may thus diminish, or perhaps destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Truth obliges us to confess that Rebecca had married a gentleman of this order. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It obliges me to refer again to a painful subject. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Unhappily there is more, much more, which the unrelenting pecuniary pressure of Mr. Blake's cheque obliges me to tell. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This free competition, too, obliges all bankers to be more liberal in their dealings with their customers, lest their rivals should carry them away. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Business obliges him to leave Frizinghall for London to-day, and he proposes coming on here, either this evening or to-morrow. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It only obliges them to pay that value in money, which they pretended to pay, but did not always really pay, in goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She has almost deserted her old employment and in fact obliges me to employ a boy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The competition of the different dealers obliges them all to accept of this price, but does not oblige them to accept of less. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If he professes himself to be of any other, indeed, the law obliges him to leave the canton. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thus the law which obliges the masters in several different trades to pay their workmen in money, and not in goods, is quite just and equitable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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