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Example sentences for "last obliged"

  • St. Severe was more vigorously defended by Hugh de Vere, son of the earl of Oxford; but was at last obliged to capitulate.

  • The king of the Romans was at last obliged to submit to the terms required of him.

  • His mother, who was as weak as himself, begged of her husband not to tease their darling, and he was at last obliged to give way to her importunities, when Antony again sunk into his former destructive effeminacy.

  • However, there was no getting over her coaxings and wheedlings, so that her papa was at last obliged to consent that she should buy one.

  • Farmer Harris strongly pressed Sir John to stay all night, but the farmer was at last obliged to submit to Sir John's excuses.

  • During this interval, several of our gentlemen passed us, at which they shewed great uneasiness, and importuned me so much to order them back, that I was at last obliged to comply.

  • Angus had many adherents; but as all those nobles who hoped for a share of his lands took part with the King, they proved too strong for him, and he was at last obliged to give in, and to flee for refuge to England.

  • The castle on the Bass, a rock in the Firth of Forth, was the last place which held out for James, but the garrison were at last obliged to give in, from want of food.

  • It was only with the help of the French that they were at last obliged to give in, and were sent to the French galleys.

  • The Castle made a gallant resistance, but was at last obliged to yield, but the Honours were not found in it.

  • The dispute grew high, while poor Deborah, instead of reasoning stronger, talked louder, and was at last obliged to take shelter from a defeat in clamour.

  • Thus, I was at last obliged to turn sharper in my own defence, and have lived ever since, my head throbbing with schemes to deceive, and my heart palpitating with fears of detection.

  • Barbadoes, commanded by Lord Willoughby of Parham, made some resistance; but was at last obliged to submit.

  • After many fruitless evasions, the king, though somewhat ungracefully, was at last obliged to comply.

  • Blake lay some time off Cadiz, in expectation of intercepting the Plate fleet, but was at last obliged, for want of water, to make sail towards Portugal.

  • And upon the whole, Cromwell, after the agony and perplexity of long doubt, was at last obliged to refuse that crown which the representatives of the nation, in the most solemn manner, had tendered to him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chlorine water; educated people; exchange for; fifty days; last agreed; last century; last expedition; last journey; last letters; last long; last moments; last month; last night; last paper; last reached; last resolved; last resort; last succeeded; last the; last word; last words; last wrote; last year; sacred music; slave property; you imagine