1 But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away.
2 Biddy, who was the most obliging of girls, immediately said she would, and indeed began to carry out her promise within five minutes.
3 He was so obliging as to suggest my father for your tutor, and he called on my father to propose it.
4 Your conduct has always been of the most delicate and obliging description.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO... 5 Sir,' said Mr. Micawber, 'you are exceedingly obliging.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES 6 'You are very obliging, my dear Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber; and hummed a tune.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 7 Darya Alexandrovna liked her neatness, her deferential and obliging manners, but she felt ill at ease with her.
8 This obliging offer was gladly accepted, and Margaret retired to the parlor, which she hastily put in order by whisking the litter under the sofa and shutting the blinds to save the trouble of dusting.
9 When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness.
10 As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled.
11 By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous.
12 When the card-tables were placed, he had the opportunity of obliging her in turn, by sitting down to whist.
13 The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine's behaviour was most friendly and obliging.
14 An obliging thrush hopped across the lawn; a coil of pinkish rubber twisted in its beak.
15 She was polite, obliging, cheerful, hopeful; but, the more polite, the more obliging, the more cheerful, the more hopeful, the more exemplary altogether, she; the forlorner Sacrifice and Victim, he.