All 23 Uses
oblige
in
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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- It was a fact that a few years before this, whilst my uncle was working at his great classification of minerals, he was forty-eight hours without eating, and all his household were obliged to share in this scientific fast.
Chpt 5obliged = required (to do something)
- I was obliged to act chorus to him when he attacked the captain of the ELLENORA upon this subject.
Chpt 8
- And it was so; for five days in succession, I was obliged to undergo this anti-vertiginous exercise; and whether I would or not, I made some improvement in the art of "lofty contemplations."
Chpt 8
- He therefore was unable to converse with the captain about Snaefell, the way to get to it, the facilities for transport, he was obliged to put off these inquiries until his arrival, and spent all his time at full length in his cabin, of which the timbers creaked and shook with every pitch she took.
Chpt 9
- Yes, yes; now it is all clear, now it is all unravelled; and I see why Saknussemm, put into the Index Expurgatorius, and compelled to hide the discoveries made by his genius, was obliged to bury in an incomprehensible cryptogram the secret—
Chpt 10
- He was a farmer who was not obliged either to sow or reap his harvest, but merely to gather it in.
Chpt 11
- But when he learnt that the Danish mile was 24,000 feet long, he was obliged to modify his calculations and allow seven or eight days for the march.
Chpt 11
- That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spend the night in a deserted building worthy to be haunted by all the elfins of Scandinavia.
Chpt 13
- At particularly dubious passages we were obliged to connect ourselves with each other by a long cord, in order that any man who missed his footing might be held up by his companions.
Chpt 16
- Besides there would have been interminable hesitation before this choice of roads; for since there was no indication whatever to guide our choice, we were obliged to trust to chance.
Chpt 19
- Travellers who penetrate into the wilds of central Africa, and into the pathless forests of the New World, are obliged to watch over each other by night.
Chpt 19
- But about ten this upward tendency became so evident, and therefore so fatiguing, that I was obliged to slacken my pace.
Chpt 19
- My uncle bore them with the angry impatience of a man obliged to own his weakness; Hans with the resignation of his passive nature; I, I confess, with complaints and expressions of despair.
Chpt 21
- Every quarter of an hour we were obliged to halt, to take a little necessary repose and restore the action of our limbs.
Chpt 24
- I am obliged to agree; but, after all, it is surprising.
Chpt 25
- We are obliged to secure as fast as possible every article that belongs to our cargo.
Chpt 35
- The St. Thomases of palaeontology, if they were here, might now touch him with their fingers, and would be obliged to acknowledge their error.
Chpt 38
- In many places we were obliged to push ourselves along with iron-pointed sticks.
Chpt 40
- Often the sunken rocks just beneath the surface obliged us to deviate from our straight course.
Chpt 40 *obliged = required
- Gradually we had been obliged to throw aside our coats and waistcoats, the lightest covering became uncomfortable and even painful.
Chpt 42obliged = required (to do something)
- We were obliged to lay fast hold of the planks of the raft, not to be thrown off.
Chpt 43
- I obliged the Professor to move his lamp over the walls of the gallery.†
Chpt 19
- I wished to oblige him to rise.†
Chpt 21 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(oblige as in: I am obliged by law.) require (obligate) to do something
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(2)
(oblige as in: I obliged her every request.) grant a favor to someone
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(3)
(obliged as in: I'm much obliged for your kindness) grateful or indebted
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, in classic literature you may see oblige as a synonym for ask as when Jules Verne wrote "I obliged the Professor to move his lamp over the walls of the gallery," in Journey to the Center of the Earth.