Obliged
in sentence
821 examples of Obliged in a sentence
Prudence
obliged
her finally to return to her own room.
Often, in the middle of an account of some clever piece of roguery, in connection with the laying out of a road, or of some astounding contract, Madame de Renal's mind would suddenly wander to the point of delirium; Julien was
obliged
to scold her, she allowed herself to caress him in the same way as she caressed her children.
He was obliged, nevertheless, obeying Madame de Renal's orders, to attend several dinners of this sort; Julien was the fashion; people forgave him his uniform and the guard of honour, or rather that imprudent display was the true cause of his success.
He had been
obliged
to pass from the stage of being pitied for the shabby apple-green coat in which everybody remembered him in his younger days to that of being envied for his Norman horses, his gold chains, the clothes he ordered from Paris, in short, all his present prosperity.
Julien, having made a vow never to say anything except what he himself believed to be false, was
obliged
to make a show of being suspicious of M. Gros.
And she laughed heartily at the thought of the rouge which Madame Valenod felt herself
obliged
to put on whenever she expected Julien.
But, in the midst of this prosperity, M. Valenod was
obliged
to fortify himself by little insolences in points of detail against the harsh truths which he was well aware that everyone was entitled to address to him.
To take one instance, the more vigorous among his companions tried to make a practice of thrashing him; he was
obliged
to arm himself with a metal compass and to inform them, but only by signs, that he would use it.
There had been a great funeral service in the Cathedral the day before; it had been impossible to make any preparations; they were obliged, therefore, in the course of the morning, to drape each of the gothic pillars which separate the nave from the aisles in a sort of jacket of red damask which rose to a height of thirty feet.
If Madame de Renal were not to be seen, people would begin searching everywhere for her; she was
obliged
to leave him.
In vain did she ask him for a volume of Vely's _Histoire de France_ which stood on the highest shelf, so that Julien was
obliged
to fetch the longer of the two ladders.
One day he interrupted her suddenly: 'Has Mademoiselle de La Mole some order to give to her father's secretary?' he asked her; 'he is
obliged
to listen to her orders and to carry them out with respect; but apart from that, he has not one word to say to her.
It is always I who am
obliged
to take up her defence.
'In spite of all the drawbacks of his eternal black coat, and of that priestly face, which he is
obliged
to assume, poor boy, if he is not to die of hunger, his merit alarms them, nothing could be clearer.
He had no difficulty in proving to him, by showing him various marked papers that had arrived from Normandy, that the requirements of his employer's lawsuits there
obliged
him to postpone his departure for Languedoc.
He was
obliged
to go down to the garden.
Then,' he continued with a sigh, 'I was not
obliged
to be suspicious of the person for whose sake I was exposing myself.
He succeeded in forcing the door of a cellar; once in the house he was
obliged
to break open, as silently as possible, the door of his own room.
He was
obliged
to draw upon his memory, which, it must be confessed, was by no means rich in resources of this order; the boy was still a thorough novice, so that his awkwardness was complete and attracted everyone's attention when he rose to leave the drawing-room.
'If your characters do not talk politics,' the publisher retorts, 'they are no longer Frenchmen of 1830, and your book ceases to hold a mirror, as you claim....')Julien's report amounted to twenty-six pages; the following is a quite colourless extract; for I have been obliged, as usual, to suppress the absurdities, the frequency of which would have appeared tedious or highly improbable.
'Noble England,' the speaker went on, 'is crushed today, for every Englishman, before paying for his daily bread, is
obliged
to pay the interest on the forty thousand million francs which were employed against the Jacobins.
The master of the house had long been asleep; M. de La Mole was
obliged
to ring to have fresh candles brought in.
"J'ai la marotte D'aimer Marote," etc.'And Julien was
obliged
to listen to the quotation to the end.
I stood to make my fortune or to fail; in either case, I saw myself
obliged
to spend my whole life in the intimate society of all that is most contemptible and disgusting under heaven.
It is a part of my painful duty to add that I am
obliged
to believe that M. J---- has no religious principles.
He was
obliged
to lead him to a chair.
'Do not be angry with me, my little Julien,' she said, embracing him, 'I was
obliged
to give my name to this secretary, who took me for a young milliner from Paris, enamoured of the handsome Julien ...Indeed, those are his very words.
He was quite surprised when, having been detained for more than a quarter of an hour among the crowd, he was
obliged
to admit that his presence was inspiring a tender pity in the assembly.
He was
obliged
to pause; amid the silence of the universal anxiety, the echoing notes of the clock filled the court.
If I were at Verrieres, and, in order to see her, were
obliged
to live for weeks on end hidden in the cellars of her house, should I complain?
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