It would cancel all obligations if the Sheikh from the North preferred to offer himself as--" The young man's long knife flashed from its sheath as he sprang to his feet.
Who defends the unspeakable creature that throws its friends and children to the lion--in payment of its debts and in cancellation of its obligations to those friends and children?
Though the young girl unchaperoned was the young girl abandoned, it is probably the young bachelor who would have most reason to dread the obligations entailed by a plunge back into the nineties.
English society, so defiant of definition, had hitherto been founded on an aggregate of families deriving their influence from landed estates and made sensible of their obligations by their territorial position.
Obligations England is under to the Roman Catholic clergy, ii.
On the obligations of Watt to Black, compare Brougham's Life of Watt (Brougham's Works, vol.
I am far from saying or thinking, that Mr. Hume meant to weaken men's obligations to honesty and fair dealing, or that he had not a sense of these obligations himself.
Goethe, his obligations to Mallet's 'History of Denmark,' ii.
Obligations Europe is under to the Catholic clergy, ii.
He is, however, under obligations to the sylvan scene of Spenser before us.
She was delicate in health, of a respectable family in his parish, and Mr. Spencer acknowledges that he is under many obligations to her father.
Among the latter we are under special obligations to Mr. De Lisle and Mr. Monteith.
He is under some obligations to me, and the Good Intent--weel, she's maistly my ain.
By it he saw that he would put the son of the King, and with him my Lord of Wargrove, under everlasting obligations--such obligations as could not be denied or escaped.
We are just beginning to realize our obligations to care for the old, and the last twenty years has seen various efforts on the part of governments to provide old-age pensions.
A man who is under obligations to set an example for others?
He became painfully aware of his obligations to her because of her inexplicable fidelity to him, and knew that he would never be able to reward her for her unique and faithful assistance.
Herr Pflaum took on an air as if he knew a great deal but was under obligations not to tell.
Daniel, worried as he had never been before: he felt more than ever under obligations to Philippina.
Indeed, women generally love to be of the obliging side; and, if we examine their favourites, we shall find them to be much oftener such as they have conferred obligations on than such as they have received them from.
Amelia: you know his motive to be much worse than vanity--a motive which, if he had piled obligations on me till they had reached the skies, would tumble all down to hell.
I said I knew the obligations that he had to this woman, and the injuries he had done her, all which I was convinced she forgave, for that she had said the handsomest things in the world of him to me.
Can I, who am so well acquainted with the many greatobligations Mr. Booth already hath to your generosity, consent that you should add more to a debt we never can pay?
To say the truth, when I examine my own heart, I have more obligations to her than appear at first sight; for, by obliging me to find arguments to persuade her, she hath assisted me in conquering myself.
I knew the obligations you had to him; and if I suspected that he acted rather from vanity than true friendship--" "Vanity!
Instead of discovering so much satisfaction on this occasion as Amelia expected, Booth very gravely answered, "And pray, my dear, how are we to repay all these obligations to his lordship?
Think of all the obligations you have to him, and then you may easily resolve yourself.
Booth, "besides the obligations I have to the colonel, I have really so much love for him, that I think of nothing less than resentment.
The system of removal has changed essentially the prospects of the emigrants, and has imposed new obligations upon the United States.
The requisitions of Congress upon the various States for money to pay the National obligations to foreign creditors were usually treated with neglect and often with contempt by those jealous and pompous "Sovereignties.
I have availed myself of the many helpful suggestions made by these gentlemen and I gratefully acknowledge my obligations to them.
Very considerable were the obligations "public and private" which Madison wrote his father that he "strongly suspected" a part of the country intended to repudiate.
The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.
Jefferson's explanation of these obligations is extremely partial to the debtors, of whom he was one.
With few exceptions, the Jews preferred to pay an additional tax rather than spill their blood for a country which offered them obligations without rights.
My dear Sir,--I have this moment finished a comparison of your remarks with my text, and feel so sensibly my obligations to your great accuracy and kindness, that I cannot deny myself the pleasure of expressing them immediately.
He gratefully acknowledges his obligations in the following letters to Johnson the bookseller.
Man's obligations infinite, of course His life should prove that he perceives their force; His utmost he can render is but small-- The principle and motive all in all.
If he merely neglected me, I would ignore it; but he neglects the obligationsof his high position, and thereby injures the interests he ought to defend.
From the moment this new freedom of the press is fairly established, you will regret having undertaken obligations which you cannot execute without inaugurating a totally different regime.
You say you are free from every obligation to the order; are you also free from all obligations to me?
Thus I hate Ottmar, since he became faithless to his obligations towards us, as the order hates him, and will destroy him as the order commands, if you do not comply with the condition upon which we will spare him.
And it is here that our greatest stress must be laid; for these obligations are too easily overlooked, and toward them the contemporary conscience needs most sharply to be aroused.
Hence the first two Parts of this volume take up, as simply as is consonant with the really intricate questions involved, the history of the development of human morality and the psychological foundation of moral obligations and ideals.
I am under personal obligations to Graham, and therefore regret that this feeling exists; but it is not unnatural, and his political conduct is certainly neither creditable nor consistent.
For the obligations of the citizen he had no regard.
Even for the common obligations of morality he maintained the most stolid unconcern.
For the obligations of the law Ambercrombie Hergan had no regard.
Since his obligations increase with time, the Indian may die over two thousand dollars in debt!
This is not the place to scrutinize either their facts or their hypothesis, but I am under obligations to state very emphatically that the glacial features of the Cordillera Vilcapampa require the climatic and not the topographic hypothesis.
Therefore he has to tack on an enormous profit to bring himself out whole and pay his expenses in order to meet his obligations with the factor in New Orleans.
The purpose of this trial was expressed to be “to vindicate the solemn obligations of international undertakings, and the validity of international morality”.
On the other hand the very essence of the Charter is that individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual state.
In 1935 the Nazi Government decided to take the first open steps to free itself from its obligations under the Treaty of Versailles.
The feudal obligations attaching to copyhold tenure have been found to cause much inconvenience to the tenants, while they are of no great value to the lord.
They vary in detail, but their main provisions relate to the rights and obligations of the emigrants, including the grant of a return passage on the expiry of a specified period, usually ten years.
He is a member of an ancient and honorable Brotherhood, and by reason of his inexperience, doubtless, its obligations rest the heavier on his conscience.
Worst of all, most crushing to spirit, is his passion for the Princess Irene while under obligations to Mahommed prohibitory of every hope, dream, and self-promise ordinarily the sweetest incidents of love.
Pause now, O Princess, and consider the obligations inseparable from the relation and trust here disclosed.
He came to have an affection for this second lord which seriously interfered with his obligations to the first one.
At such a time as this ought Churches to do something extraordinary, in renewing of their Covenants, and in remembring, and reviving theObligations of what they have renewed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obligations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
