accommodating
Definition: obliging, helpful
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Unleavened Bread - By Robert Grant
...Those who desired to borrow money for progressive enterprises had found the banks accommodating and unsuspicious, and to Benham initiative it yet appeared that the development of the resources of the neighborhood by the unwearying, masterful energy of the citizens was still in its infancy ....
The History of Sir Richard Calmady - By Lucas Malet
...Must be accommodating to a woman, you know ....
the shop girl - By N. C. Williamson
...This was the natural thing for such a man to do in the circumstances, and equally natural that he should dash out to find a supper companion--some accommodating fellow whose presence would account for the table with its two places ....
Sense and Sensibility - By Jane Austen
...The friendliness of his disposition made him happy in accommodating those whose situation might be considered, in comparison with the past, as unfortunate ....
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - By Jane Austen
...On quitting the Cobb, they all went in-doors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many ....
Mansfield Park - By Jane Austen, R. Brimley Johnson
...And Edmund, silenced, was obliged to acknowledge that the charm of acting might well carry fascination to the mind of genius; and with the ingenuity of love, to dwell more on the obliging, accommodating purport of the message than on anything else ....
Hard Times - By Charles Dickens
...She walked along at his side, and, gently accommodating himself to her humor, he said Coketown was a busy place, was it not ?...
The House of Mirth - By Edith Wharton, Albert Beck Wenzell
...BOOK II IT came vividly to Selden on the Casino steps that Monte Carlo had, more than any other place he knew, the gift of accommodating itself to each man 's humor ....
Don Quixote - By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...Very true, ' said the curate; ' but we the others must look about for accommodating shepherdesses that will answer our purpose one way or another . '...
The Portrait of a Lady - By Henry James
...But strangely enough, now that she was face to face with him and although an hour before she had almost invented a scheme for pleasing him, Isabel was not accommodating, would not glide ....
Vivian Grey - By Benjamin Disraeli
...His anxiety, however, was not merely selfish : he was as desirous that his young master should be refreshed by a good night 's rest as himself, and anticipating that he should have to exercise his skill in making a couch for Vivian in the carriage, he proceeded to cross-examine the postmaster on the possibility of his accommodating them ....
The House of the Seven Gables - By Nathaniel Hawthorne
...The girl ran into the house to get some crumbs of bread, cold potatoes, and other such scraps as were suitable to the accommodating appetite of fowls ....
Middlemarch - By George Eliot
...During the vacations Fred had naturally required more amusements than he had ready money for, and Mr. Bambridge had been accommodating enough not only to trust him for the hire of horses and the accidental expense of ruining a fine hunter, but also to make a small advance by which he might be able to meet some losses at billiards ....
The mill on the Floss - By George Eliot, Charles Henshaw Ward
...That a creature made--in a genealogical sense--out of a man 's rib, and in this particular case maintained in the highest respectability without any trouble of her own, should be normally in a state of contradiction to the blandest propositions and even to the most accommodating concessions, was a mystery in the scheme of things to which he had often in vain sought a clue in the early chapters of Genesis ....
Villette - By Charlotte Bront
...I am glad 1 was not really much afraid of him--that, indeed, close in his presence, I ielt no terror at all; for upon his demanding cord and gibbet to execute the sentence recently pronounced, I was able to furnish him with a needleful of embroidering thread with such accommodating civility as could not but allay some portion at least of his surplus irritation ....