"Obliged" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... feel obliged if you can give me a little explanation, for Mr. Wyckliffe was staying here for several days, and I took a great fancy to him. You connect your daughter's ill-health with him; and finally you produce a telegram saying 'suspicions well-grounded.' I must say I cannot understand it. Help me to ...
— Australia Revenged • Boomerang
... mountains. This was rather an advantage in some respects, as, being accustomed to mountain travelling, we might move on faster than those of whom we were in pursuit. As, however, we were made of flesh and blood, we were obliged to encamp at night, although the dawn of day ...
— In the Rocky Mountains - A Tale of Adventure • W. H. G. Kingston
... one, but the Government was obliged to treat it with respectful consideration. The men who offered it were a power in the land,—a power which no government could ...
— The Great War Syndicate • Frank Stockton
... Vegas, where there lived a considerable number of Americans, these would naturally associate together, as, for instance, the American colony in Paris or Berlin or other foreign places, so as not to be obliged to mingle with the natives socially any more than they chose. But in the village where my relatives lived, we had not the alternative of choosing our own countrymen for ...
— Tales of Aztlan • George Hartmann
... storming party was selected and massed on the banks. At the word, the brave fellows plunged into the stream, and rushing across, charged the strong works of the rebels with great fury. The occupants were obliged to flee, but five hundred of them were ...
— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens
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