"Obliging" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you be so treacherous!" said Tess, between archness and real dismay, and getting rid of his arm by pulling open his fingers one by one, though at the risk of slipping off herself. "Just when I've been putting such trust in you, and obliging you to please you, because I thought I had wronged you by that push! Please set me down, and ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy
... prospered. He was obliging and agreeable, and people naturally patronized his store, which he rendered as attractive as his means and good taste would allow. His wife, too, charmed the community by her simple, sweet ways; and motherly old ladies took special interest in her ...
— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts
... very obliging and complimentary over my promotion. He gave me Donald to be my sergeant and personal servant, finding him, how I knew not, a horse strong enough ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... heavy mail came down the trail that evening, brought by the obliging doctor from Emville, who had been summoned to dress the wounds of one of the line-men who had got too close to the murderous "sixty thousand" and had been badly burned by "the juice." And after the letters were read, and the good doctor had made his patient ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... it," retorted Tony. "Nervous because he is new to his job, but very anxious to be obliging. We shall ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
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