There was, consequently, some disinclination among the merchants of Kuldja to be the first to send a caravan to Kashgar.
But the words sounded cold and distant, and some deadly disinclination held me where I was, though I longed to comfort her.
Pollie's arm had been a kind of second nature to me; but Mrs Bowater, I think, had almost as fastidious a disinclination to carrying me as I have to being carried.
At later dates definite proposals for immediate annexation were considered but not adopted, the king showing a strong disinclination to cede the state, while among the mass of the Belgians the disinclination to annex was equally strong.
Throughout the attack there is a marked disinclination to take any remedy; which is not always displayed by these creatures, and in no other disease is so violently exhibited.
In the bitch a desire for copulation, with a disinclination to accept the dog, is to be regarded with suspicion; as is also a display of peevishness and a wish to be undisturbed in full-grown animals.
This psychical change is noticed in immoderate cases of masturbation and takes the form of disinclination to enter into any physical contests, or games; and disinclination to cultivate the society of the opposite sex.
Women seem at present to have a preternatural disinclination toward keeping their own accounts, and nearly every girl inherits this bent.
One should conceal the disinclination to this duty, as one should conceal a disinclination to give one's hair the thorough weekly washing which that passion for cleanness that is the mark of the true lady calls for.
British vessels manifested an extreme disinclination to come within hailing distance of any of the cruisers, although all three were so disguised that it seemed impossible to make out their warlike character.
Partly this was due to the disinclination of the sturdy Republicans to keep a standing establishment, either naval or military, in time of peace.
It was not then fashionable to affect a disinclination for society--the handiest excuse for an inability to talk and to think.
He next put his trust in Louis's disinclination to take an active part in the Government; but here again he was deceived.
After the love-story of Gustavus Adolphus had come to an end, he long felt a disinclination to marry.
But he showed disinclination to assist the elector of Bavaria, who was compelled to leave his country.
Again, if the stock depreciates, the landlord cannot carry out contemplated redemptions of mortgages on his property, and this produces a disinclination on the part of other landlords to sell.
And with the conviction and a sudden remembrance of the place and the character of their previous meeting, a definitedisinclination to encountering the figure on the stairs caused the Governor abruptly to draw into the entrance of the church.
It's Esme's affair," Rose replied, experiencing a distinct disinclination to follow his counsel.
Suddenly he remembered, with a distinct disinclination to face Esme in the circumstances, that they were dining at the Sinclairs' that night.
He booked her a passage and saw her off by the boat; but at the last moment he showed a strong disinclination to part from her, and almost persuaded her to give up the idea and return with him.
I remember a little typical incident about thisdisinclination to give a thought to needful though prosaic details.
The objection to verse as a trifling occupation comes really from that general disinclination to read verse which excuses itself by the rarity of genius.
Moreover, as rape in the first degree involves the punishment of imprisonment for twenty years, there is a disinclination to convict a man unless the case is a very bad one.
Uncle John was a bachelor of fifty-five, possessing twelve thousand pounds, a strong disinclination to part with any of them, a good heart, and a bad temper.
But this order Barny refrained to give, and for the first time in his life exhibited a disinclination to leave the shore.
This physical disability no doubt had much to do with his disinclination to severe study.
His brothers Peter and John had been sent to Columbia College, and it is probable that Washington would have had the same advantage if he had not shown a disinclination to methodical study.
This ought to be accepted as evidence of Carlyle's disinclination to say ill-natured things of those he did not know.
He knew not, in the darkness, which way he was going; he moved on mainly from a disinclination to remain in one place, lest he should experience again the feelings of a rooted plant.
Master Holyday, while modestly admitting the extent of his wanderings in foreign countries, showed some disinclination to the task of imparting the observations he had made.
This is what might have been ours for life, but for this accursed will, and your notions of what is best for me, and perhaps a naturaldisinclination towards my suit.
She always had a disinclination to speak the truth, unless when it was very decidedly for her own interest to do so, or when she was enraged out of all prudence.
His firstdisinclination was conquered, and the soft intoxication of the subtropical moonshine was in his blood.
From top to bottom, the whole spectrum of fear is bad, from panic fear at one extremity down to that mere disinclination for enterprise, that reluctance and indolence which is its lowest phase.
We may fairly suppose, also, that as soon as any sterility appears some disinclination to cross unions will appear, and this will further tend to the diminution of the production of hybrids.
As if the people's general disinclination for anything that has to do with God were not the precise reason for His wish to "send out" His servants!
I was in the camp of my enemies, which accounted for his disinclination to tell me who he was.
