Mr. Warrington must be so obligingas to honour him on that day.
Perhaps some obliging reader of Notes and Queries will be able to inform me, and who Mrs. Goodison was.
Mrs. Newington, you were so obliging as to promise to accommodate me with a return chaise as far as Eton.
When Susan had departed, Miss Somers turned to the obliging shopkeeper, who was folding up all the things he had opened.
The obliging mistress of a lodging house, as soon as she understood that the young gentleman was nephew to Mr. Gresham, to whom she had formerly let her house, received Hal, covered as he was with dirt.
He was mindful to do all that Mr. Gilbert required of him; and he was soobliging to all his fellow-servants that they could not help liking him.
Anne, who was of a very obliging temper, and who liked to do what she was asked to do, went back to the place where the scotcher lay; and scarcely had she reached the spot, when she heard the noise of a carriage.
She was received in an obliging manner, and directed to call again when he should have deliberated on the subject.
The influence of her engaging person and winning manners is observable in one obliging attention she received even from strangers.
That beneficent Parent, who is ever doing us good, has bestowed upon us, in the officers of the ship, obliging and affectionate friends.
From the obligingtemper of the Flemish nobility everything was to be had, as soon as their pride and self-will was flattered by confidence and obliging treatment.
He therefore advised her to deceive the nobles by the very arts which they had hitherto employed against herself, and to secure them through smooth words and an obliging behavior.
I should be very ungrateful for all your kindnesses, if I neglected any opportunity of obliging you, dear Sir.
I do not pretend that I am 'lot flattered by your obliging proposal of printing these slight verses at the Strawberry press.
It almost provokes one to shut up one's house, when obliging begets injury!
You are so obliging as to offer to accept a song of mine, if I have one by me.
I confess I am not only pleased on your account, Sir, but on Mr. Harris's, as he has been very obliging to me.
An iron chain was therefore quickly put about my neck, and fastened with a padlock; and one of the executioners, holding the end of it, walked before me, obliging me thus to follow him as a captive.
In view of the recent destruction of the city of Manila by fire, Vera has forbidden the people to build any more houses of wood, obliging them to use stone for that purpose.
The castle glittered with gaudy furniture; sweet music was heard in every room; the whole company, who were all of the most beautiful forms that could be conceived, strove who should be most obliging to this their new guest.
Scarcely had I opened my shop when I was besieged by buyers, and in spite of my high prices I sold more than any one else, because I was obliging and friendly towards my customers.
It was only my chaff; but, unfortunately, it is only too true that I am prevented fromobliging you.
When the card tables were placed, he had an opportunity ofobliging her in return, by sitting down to whist.
Scattered through the forests and by the side of many a river may be found the obliging Micmac and Maliceet Indians, skilled in canoeing and woodcraft, and with some of whom for guides delightful outdoor vacations may be enjoyed.
Sometimes, however, they terminate with a fine supper cooked by the obliging wife of a good-hearted farmer for two supperless men dropped from the clouds, as it were, one hour before midnight.
The obliging librarian is ever willing to extend courtesies to the visitor.
I say, Cato was an Ass, Sir, for obliging any young Rogue of 'em all.
If these be Devils, they are obliging ones: I did not care if I ventur'd on that last Female Fiend.
No deer or fawn," thought he; "but there's possibly an obliging young man.
Wonder if I could find some obliging young man to drive them in!
Wilhelmina, you are always my kind and obliging friend--will you now also lend me your hand, and be my secretary?
At dinner, Napoleon, playing the polite and obliging host, always had Alexander placed at his right.
Tis but pulling off our masks, and obliging Vainlove to know us.
My pretty lass," said the viscount to the Goualeuse, whose lovely countenance struck him, "would you be so obliging as to tell me the way to the village of Arnouville?
Would not one imagine that it was a real vindication, or at least a retort-courteous on these obliging friends.
A learned gentleman has always a right to demand respect," the other one said with a very obliging smile.
The manner of the Russians is so obliging that you might imagine yourself, the very first day, intimate with them, and probably at the end of ten years you would not be so!
As Mr. Burnaby was so obliging as to allow me to make what use I pleased of his Journal, I have freely interwoven it into my work.
I am much indebted to him for this, and particularly so, from the obliging manner in which he did it.
The Count was so good as to give me most obliging letters to many people in the island.
Boswell writes:--"I have had the honour to receive your most obliging letter, and can with difficulty restrain myself from paying you compliments on the very genteel manner in which you are pleased to treat me.
Indeed all the gentlemen here behaved to me in the most obliging manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obliging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
