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  • Disobliging, then; or else I must have all my comfort invaded and pleasure destroyed by, by, by —” And Mr. Damer paused, being at a loss for an appropriate name for Miss

    Tales of all countries 2004

  • Disobliging sufferers from the alleged "dengue" began to fill up the cemeteries, thereby embarrassing the local authorities, until one of the health officers had a brilliant idea.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

  • Disobliging, I call them -- disobliging, and shabby, and mistrustful; it was only this morning I asked Miss Mainwaring for the loan of seven and sixpence, and she up and said, 'I'm sorry I can't oblige you, Mrs. Dove.'

    The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls L. T. Meade 1884

  • "Disobliging, then; or else I must have all my comfort invaded and pleasure destroyed by, by, by --" And Mr. Damer paused, being at a loss for an appropriate name for Miss Dawkins.

    An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Disobliging questions are being raised, not least about alleged links between Ms Pratt's charity and a commercial agency run by her husband.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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