"Obligated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not enough to sustain a pair of grooms and a pair of palfreys, and more wine hath been drunken in my presence at a feast. The moneys are given to such men, that they may not incline nor be obligated to any vile or lowly occupation; and the canary, that they may entertain such promising wits as court their company and converse; and that in such manner there may be alway in our land a succession of ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... "Much obligated, and good-night. I have a long journey to take to set down this here young lady; and the best thing we can all do is to get home as fast as we can, and have a refreshing cup of tea—that's my ...
— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the length of his 'air; and he's cheap as dirt, sir, at four-ten! It's a throwin' of him away at the price; and I shouldn't do it, but I've got more dawgs than I've room for; so I'm obligated to make a sacrifice. Four-ten, sir! 'Ad the distemper, and everythink, and a reg'lar good 'un for ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede
... looking mysterious, he said he wanted to have a word with Bax in private, and would be obligated if he'd go with ...
— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne
... Americans at the dawn of the twentieth century; and did they truly hold to the superstition of marriage as a religious sacrament, not to be dissolved by mortal power? Did they really believe that a man who had once been drawn into matrimony was obligated for life—no matter how unhappy he might be, no matter to what indignities he might be subjected? Or, if they did recognize the permissibility of divorce—then why this hue and cry after Darrell, who had borne his punishment for twenty years, and had waited for eight or ten years ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair
... "Obligated," roared the old gentleman, "you would say. But you had better hold your tongue. That is the best use you ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, - Issue 493, June 11, 1831 • Various
... I seed him and heard him too, Sunday 'fore last, when I went to call upon old father; I was obligated to go to church, the old gemman's so ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat
... but a little while longer that we are going to be together, and I want to say to you gentlemen, as I mean to say to the others and as I have said to our two ladies, that I feel more obligated to, you for the way you 've treated me than I know very well how to put into words. Boarders sometimes expect too much of the ladies that provides for them. Some days the meals are better than other days; it can't help being so. Sometimes ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... permit me to go in debt to you, madam?" he asked. "I'll be truly obligated if you'll allow me to put my ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... made a mistake in letting the women get your goat. Don't pay no attention to them. Of course their game's fair enough. I will say that you gave them their opening; stood yourself for a target with that statement of yours. Howsomever, you ain't obligated to keep on acting as the nigger ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.
... under the protection of our government should feel obligated to give his or her best to make our government one of ...
— Citizenship - A Manual for Voters • Emma Guy Cromwell
... chieftains in the ould times; and hadn't they a great sketch of country to themselves: they haven't so much now, for their hearts were too big for their manes (means;) and that's the rason O'Sullivan was obligated to sell this part of the mountain to Mr. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 352, January 17, 1829 • Various |
