Obligations

Examples

• Why do you want to put me under such terrible obligations? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I am under obligations to you, I know it, a d--d deal too well too; but I won't be always sermonised by you because you're five years my senior. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• That's knowing the obligations of a Alfred David, ain't it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They each felt his sorrows, and their own obligations, and Marianne, by general consent, was to be the reward of all. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It was painful, exceedingly painful, to know that they were under obligations to a person who could never receive a return. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• His ruling thought, his great contribution to political literature, was that the moral obligations upon ordinary men cannot bind princes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As there are here two interests entirely distinct from each other, they must give rise to two moral obligations, equally separate and independent. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• So far he was reasonably sure of having fulfilled all his obligations. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In my position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place one's self under obligations. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I said I owed him more obligations than I could ever repay, and held him in a higher admiration than I could ever express. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is not _my_ part, then, I think, to tak fro' _ye_--to be under obligations (as they say) to _ye_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If Mrs. Rushworth could imagine any interfering obligations, Julia was certainly able to quit London whenever she chose. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He has sustained many losses of late; and these obligations accumulating upon him at once, would crush him to the earth. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Arkwright knew of Hargreaves’ jenny, but not of the other machine, and as he came upon none in use in his travels he cannot be held to have been under any obligations to this earlier device. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Perhaps it hurts my pride to be under any obligations to his interference. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• At any rate, she was amazingly pretty, and he had asked her to tea and must live up to his obligations. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Will wrote from Rome, and began by saying that his obligations to Mr. Casaubon were too deep for all thanks not to seem impertinent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr. Pickwick-- deepest obligations--life preserver--made a man of me--you shall never repent it, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The process of liquidating obligations between different nations is carried on in the same way by an exchange of foreign bills. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is generous to remind me of our obligations to you, the woman answered. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I was very earnest in my commendations of that gentleman, believing myself under some obligations to him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And as these two rules are founded on like obligations of interest, each of them must have a peculiar authority, independent of the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I am under great obligations to him, and shall write to him shortly. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

Edited by Denny