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Meanings of obliging manner in English

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Usage of obliging manner in English
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A kind and obliging manner carries with it an indescribable charm.
Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful ...
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Ali Baba received Khaujeh Houssain with a smiling countenance, and in the most obliging manner.
The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales
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She then offered him water in an obliging manner.
Antiquities of the Jews
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Lady Betty, in her letter, expresses herself in the most obliging manner in relation to me.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
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She receives them in the most obliging manner; she caresses them, regales them, and lodges them magnificently.
Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
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The obliging manner of the new nurse won her heart, and she began to chat pleasantly enough.
Beulah
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Ali Baba received Cogia Houssain with a smiling countenance, and in the most obliging manner he could wish.
The Junior Classics, Volume 5: Stories that never grow old
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Ali Baba received Khaujeh Houssain with a smiling countenance, and in the most obliging manner he could wish.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 03
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It was the young footman, Samuel- acivilfresh-colouredperson, with a teachable look and a very obliging manner.
The Moonstone
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FIESCO (in an obliging manner).
The Works of Frederick Schiller
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He was a young man, and he received us in the most obliging manner, giving us all the information we desired.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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They saw him with pleasure, and feasted him in an obliging manner, out of the respect they bare to his father.
Antiquities of the Jews
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No woman in Europe can do it so well; none will do it more willingly, or in a more proper and obliging manner.
Letters to His Son, 1750 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
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When I was there before, they entertained me in a most elegant and obliging manner, regaling me from house to house with emulation.
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
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Her apprehensions went off, and she was at leisure to congratulate me upon my sudden recovery; which she did in the most obliging manner.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5
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You, Mr. Thostrup," added she, with a most obliging manner, "I know so well from Wilhelm's letters, that we are no strangers.
O. T., A Danish Romance
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