4 uses
- Yet he felt obliged to speak up and say: "Answer the gentleman, Thomas—don't be afraid."Chapter 4 (99% in)
- If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.Chapter 2 (93% in)
- If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.Chapter 2 (94% in)
- There is no school in all our land where the young ladies do not feel obliged to close their compositions with a sermon; and you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest and the most relentlessly pious.Chapter 21 (47% in)
There are no more uses of "oblige" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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