Obliging

Examples

• The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine's behaviour was most friendly and obliging. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You are too obliging, my dear Miss Woodhouse; but we really must take leave. Jane Austen. Emma.
• As the door opened she was heard, So very obliging of you! Jane Austen. Emma.
• Fanny would have had quite as good a walk there, I assure you, with the advantage of being of some use, and obliging her aunt: it is all her fault. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Her master's compliments, and would I be so obliging as to say what my business was? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Dr. Bretton seems to respect papa, and to have pleasure in obliging him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You are very obliging, Sir Leicester Dedlock. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• However, she seems a very obliging, pretty-behaved young lady, and no doubt will make him a very good wife. Jane Austen. Emma.
• When next any one makes love to you, Miss Rosamond, I will tell him how obliging you are. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr Job Potterson, a semi-seafaring man of obliging demeanour, said, 'Thank you, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Be so obliging as to keep this fact in your mind, and observe the programme I now propose. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And when I brought out the baked apples from the closet, and hoped our friends would be so very obliging as to take some, 'Oh! Jane Austen. Emma.
• The author's mistake was pointed out to him, in the most obliging manner, by Robert Belt, Esq. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He was so obliging as to suggest my father for your tutor, and he called on my father to propose it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You are exceedingly obliging, Sir Leicester, and on behalf of those ladies (who are present) and for myself, I thank you very much. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You seem but just comeso very obliging of you. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He is very obliging, said Emma; but is he sure that Harriet means to marry him? Jane Austen. Emma.
• 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. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• You are very obliging. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I think, mademoiselle replies without any action and in a clear, obliging voice, that you are a miserable wretch. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am as great an invalid as ever, and he is so very obliging as to speak for me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She felt its inconsistency; but Mr. Knightley was so obliging as to put up with it, and seek no farther explanation. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Mr. Osborne gave a look as much as to say, Indeed, how very obliging! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was always agreeable and obliging, and speaking pleasantly of every body. Jane Austen. Emma.
• When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Rebecca was of a good-natured and obliging disposition; and she liked Amelia rather than otherwise. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The big-headed babies were equally obliging in lending their grotesque aid to the general effect. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was the young footman, Samuel--a civil fresh-coloured person, with a teachable look and a very obliging manner. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You are very obliging to say such thingsbut certainly not. Jane Austen. Emma.

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