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    obliges


    1. Dave obliges and is reassured


    2. A regulation which obliges all those of the same trade in a particular town to enter their names


    3. Thus the law which obliges the masters in several


    4. It only obliges them to pay that value in money,


    5. The plenty not only obliges him to sell cheaper, but, in consequence of these improvements, he can afford to sell cheaper; for if he could not afford it, the plenty would not be of long continuance


    6. on the building, obliges the owner to render it


    7. It obliges all of them to be more circumspect in their conduct, and, by not extending their currency beyond its due proportion to their cash, to guard themselves against those malicious runs, which the rivalship of so many competitors is always ready to bring upon them


    8. This free competition, too, obliges all bankers to be more liberal in their dealings with their customers, lest their rivals should carry them away


    9. If it is fixed precisely at the lowest market price, it ruins, with honest people who respect the laws of their country, the credit of all those who cannot give the very best security, and obliges them to have recourse to exorbitant usurers


    10. In other countries, rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one ; but in new colonies, the interest of the two superior orders obliges them to treat the inferior one with more generosity and humanity, at least where that inferior one is not in a state of slavery

    11. In several different parts of Europe, the toll or lock-duty upon a canal is the property of private persons, whose private interest obliges them to keep up the canal


    12. In order to acquire this fortune, or even to get this subsistence, they must, in the course of a year, execute a certain quantity of work of a known value; and, where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness


    13. If he professes himself to be of any other, indeed, the law obliges him to leave the canton


    14. While it obliges the people to pay, it may thus diminish, or perhaps destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so


    15. But, as it might be troublesome for the receiver to prosecute the whole parish, he takes at his choice five or six of the richest contributors, and obliges them to make good what had been lost by the insolvency of the collector


    16. conveniency or necessity obliges to sell


    17. pretended, though in general, perhaps, they do their duty fully as well as those of the customs ; yet, as that duty obliges them to be frequently very troublesome to some of their neighbours, commonly contract a certain hardness of character, which the others frequently have not


    18. ” She sits at the other end of the table as he obliges her request and they begin eating their soups


    19. and often obliges us to discard old solutions and to look for new ones


    20. The terror became a cry; a dry, sharp cry born from the entrails of my fear, which huddled in my solar plexus, then came out expressing that primitive and instinctive fear that obliges us to undertake the biggest feats born more from improvisation than understanding

    21. The powerful black stallion trots up to the fence, hoping for a treat and Gautama obliges with a juicy ripe pear


    22. day their mothers gave birth to them, but that life obliges them over


    23. It also involves what the Almighty God obliges His obedients in Paradise with, of the looking at His noble Face and the witnessing of His great beauty


    24. He says: “they will abide therein forever, Al’lah well pleased with them”: for the charity they have rendered “and they with Him” for the bliss and kindness He obliges them with


    25. He will ascertain that unless his Provider supplies him with power and obliges him with blessings and prestige, he will be powerless, poor and insignificant


    26. He wanted to acquaint you, man, with that the one who obliges you with these graces is caring about you and loving to you


    27. It also involves that with which the Almighty God obliges His obedient followers in Paradise, namely the Sight of His noble Face and the witnessing of His great beauty


    28. And everyone knows appreciation equals debt and debt obliges dependence, and from dependence a groveling that should love the King that buys her with gifts and thus owns her as property


    29. Al’lah is wellpleased with them)) for the charity they have rendered ((and they with Him)) for the bliss and kindness with which He obliges them


    30. Love isn't strong enough to oblige us to share, because Love obliges no one; but a loan is no respecter of person, restraining all by its letter of retainer

    31. That is what the Prophet (cpth) is referring to in his noble saying: “Love Al’lah for the graces with which He obliges you, and then love me because of His Love for me


    32. 0 bites 1's neck, crying 'Bite me so I might live forever', and 1 obliges by can opening 0's head


    33. His stomach obliges them with a grumble of its own


    34. Cass never has lied in his life, but he reluctantly obliges Unks


    35. Cass obliges as the captain yells over top the celebration, “Give the order to dismiss!”


    36. ' Nay, I come of no ungrateful stock, for all the world knows, but particularly my own town, who the Panzas from whom I am descended were; and, what is more, I know and have learned, by many good words and deeds, your worship's desire to show me favour; and if I have been bargaining more or less about my wages, it was only to please my wife, who, when she sets herself to press a point, no hammer drives the hoops of a cask as she drives one to do what she wants; but, after all, a man must be a man, and a woman a woman; and as I am a man anyhow, which I can't deny, I will be one in my own house too, let who will take it amiss; and so there's nothing more to do but for your worship to make your will with its codicil in such a way that it can't be provoked, and let us set out at once, to save Senor Samson's soul from suffering, as he says his conscience obliges him to persuade your worship to sally out upon the world a third time; so I offer again to serve your worship faithfully and loyally, as well and better than all the squires that served knights-errant in times past or present


    37. equalled by mine for you, but a cruel necessity obliges us to seek the only


    38. Which somehow obliges the rest of us to set the bar


    39. His uncle was angry with him because of the manner in which he had thrown away the good position of telegraph operator in Villa de Leyva, but he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves


    40. What I really grieve over is your unhappy passion itself for gambling—a passion which bereaves me of part of your tender affection and obliges me to tell you such bitter truths as (God knows with what pain) I am now telling you

    41. The doctrine of Jesus, which teaches us that we cannot possibly make life secure, but that we must be ready to die at any moment, is unquestionably preferable to the doctrine of the world, which obliges us to struggle for the security of existence


    42. This contradiction is evident both in economic and in political relations; it is manifested most unmistakably in the inconsistency of the acknowledgment of the Christian law of brotherly love and military conscription, which obliges men to hold themselves in readiness to take each other's lives,—in short, every man to be at once a Christian and a gladiator


    43. It amounts to this, that honor obliges men to fight, that it is for the interest of nations that they should attack and destroy one another, and that all endeavors to abolish war can but excite a smile


    44. But not perceiving any one disposed to do so, a sense of duty obliges me, though very unwell, to claim your indulgence while I offer my sentiments on this subject, so interesting to the Union at large, but particularly to the western section of it


    45. But what obliges Congress to give credit at all? Could it not demand prompt payment of the duties? And in fact does it not so demand in many instances? Whether credit is given or not, is a matter merely of discretion


    46. However painful it may be to censure the conduct of our own Government, yet a sense of justice obliges me to say, that to every overture made by Great Britain to accommodate this unpleasant affair, our Administration attached some exceptionable condition which closed the door to an amicable adjustment


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