All 13 Uses of
obligation
in
Bleak House
- "We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."†
Chpt 4-6
- The sharpening lasted so long that at last I felt a kind of obligation on me to raise my eyes in order that I might break the spell under which he seemed to labour, of not being able to leave off.†
Chpt 7-9
- If he really meant it—if his will were genuine and real, which it was—it appeared to him that it was the same as coin, and cancelled the obligation.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- "I do assure you both, there's nothing I wouldn't do to discharge this obligation.†
Chpt 34-36
- I took such precautions as I could to hide from Charley that I had been crying, and I constrained myself to think of every sacred obligation that there was upon me to be careful and collected.†
Chpt 34-36
- It struck me that if Mrs. Jellyby had discharged her own natural duties and obligations before she swept the horizon with a telescope in search of others, she would have taken the best precautions against becoming absurd, but I need scarcely observe that I kept this to myself.†
Chpt 37-39
- I am not under any obligation to explain myself further; and with all respect for you, sir, and without offence—I repeat, without offence—†
Chpt 37-39
- The possibility of my being brought into contact with my mother, of my being taken to her house, even of Mr. Skimpole's, however distantly associated with me, receiving kindnesses and obligations from her husband, was so painful that I felt I could no longer guide myself without his assistance.†
Chpt 43-45
- You are sensible of an obligation not to refer to me, miss, in communicating with Mr. C.?†
Chpt 43-45
- In a word, I felt as if it were my duty and obligation to go with them.†
Chpt 52-54
- I cannot separate and define the feelings that arose in me after this; it is enough that the vague duty and obligation I had felt upon me from the first of following the investigation was, without my distinctly daring to ask myself any question, increased, and that I was indignantly sure of there being no possibility of a reason for my being afraid.†
Chpt 52-54
- I was reluctant to enter minutely into that question, but as he begged I would, for he was really curious to know, I gave him to understand in the gentlest words I could use that his conduct seemed to involve a disregard of several moral obligations.†
Chpt 61-63
- "Mr Bucket," said my guardian aloud, "whatever the worth of this paper may be to any one, my obligations are great to you; and if it be of any worth, I hold myself bound to see Mr. Smallweed remunerated accordingly."†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(obligation) a duty