All 15 Uses of
oblige
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "I'm extremely obliged to you, and expected no less from your goodness."†
Chpt 2
- He felt obliged to decline the honor of your hospitality, and not without reason.†
Chpt 2
- They were most obliging old things, ready to do anything for me, and at my request were as silent afterwards as two cast-iron posts.†
Chpt 3
- Well, I spent the rest of the money on such an orgy that the new major was obliged to reprimand me.†
Chpt 3
- Katerina Ivanovna herself gave way to no one but her benefactress, the general's widow, who had been kept by illness in Moscow, and to whom she was obliged to write twice a week a full account of all her doings.†
Chpt 3
- "Unluckily I am obliged to return to Moscow—perhaps to-morrow—and to leave you for a long time—And, unluckily, it's unavoidable," Ivan said suddenly.†
Chpt 4
- Come, you might oblige your father.†
Chpt 5 *
- He felt obliged to speak and he turned to Rakitin.†
Chpt 7 *
- Both the lodge and the lower story were overcrowded, but the old man kept the upper floor to himself, and would not even let the daughter live there with him, though she waited upon him, and in spite of her asthma was obliged at certain fixed hours, and at any time he might call her, to run upstairs to him from below.†
Chpt 8
- He inquired, however, with surprise, why he called the peasant-trader Gorstkin, Lyagavy, and obligingly explained to Mitya that, though the man's name really was Lyagavy, he was never called so, as he would be grievously offended at the name, and that he must be sure to call him Gorstkin, "or you'll do nothing with him; he won't even listen to you," said the priest in conclusion.†
Chpt 8
- Pyotr Ilyitch found himself obliged to come to the rescue.†
Chpt 8
- Ippolit Kirillovitch's wife had had toothache for the last two days, and he was obliged to go out to escape from her groans.†
Chpt 9
- Nikolay Parfenovitch Nelyudov had been intending for three days past to drop in that evening at Mihail Makarovitch's, so to speak casually, so as slyly to startle the eldest granddaughter, Olga Mihailovna, by showing that he knew her secret, that he knew it was her birthday, and that she was trying to conceal it on purpose, so as not to be obliged to give a dance.†
Chpt 9
- He was obliged, after the peasants had been examined, to admit the finding of the hundred roubles, only adding that he had religiously returned it all to Dmitri Fyodorovitch "in perfect honesty, and it's only because his honor was in liquor at the time, he wouldn't remember it."†
Chpt 12
- In the first place we have precisely on the day of the catastrophe that fit, for the genuineness of which the prosecutor, for some reason, has felt obliged to make a careful defense.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(oblige as in: I obliged her every request.) grant a favor to someone
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(oblige as in: I am obliged by law.) require (obligate) to do something