Milly had the inclination of a bird for a personal and private nest of her own.
Looking at his heavy jaw and swarthy face, Kate supplied "temper" and "not much inclination to work.
He was natural, normal, mischievous; but he had not an underhand inclination that she could discover.
Laura, in her amazement, had to strangle a violent inclination to laugh.
He raised it from the grass--a small volume bound in faded morocco--but he did not offer to show it to Miss Fountain, and she felt no inclination to ask for it.
It was an army of volunteers, subordinate through inclination and respect to officers of their own choice, and depending for sustenance on supplies sent from, their several towns.
He never attempted the learned languages, nor manifested any inclination for rhetoric or belles-lettres.
The inclination was encouraged by Lawrence Washington and Mr. Fairfax.
Why don't they grant that the right inclination of the heart toward God through faith in Christ must precede works?
When we have a love for the Word of God, and gladly hear, talk, write, and think of Christ, we are to know that this inclination toward Christ is the gift and work of the Holy Ghost.
I felt an inclination to laugh and also an inclination to throw the bottle at his head, which I should probably have indulged in had I been twenty years younger.
I felt no inclination to break them either, for three days later I felt weary of the situation, and told the consul I would start on the first opportunity.
Mr. Gwynn again approved the utterances of Richard with a creaky mandarin inclination of the head and shoulders.
It may be a weakness, but my inclinationruns heavily towards concealment.
Gustavus is humbled and made to suffer, not because of this or that act, but because of aninclination to consider his own mission the only one in sight.
He showed an inclination to carry his inquiries farther, but she checked him, telling him that it was not convenient to search into other matters because of danger.
Writing of himself he says: "Everyone has some bent or inclination which, if fostered by favourable circumstances, will colour the rest of his life.
This can be done by the help of a rapidly revolving emery wheel, varying the inclination of the needle-point to the wheel, so as to grind off the angles.
But, on the whole, hunger and propinquity rather than free inclination seem to actuate these fleas of which man is only the occasional host.
Now an Indian would dart out from behind a tree and shake his robe as an animal showed an inclination to break out of the line, and as quietly again retreat.
The following day a Cree hunter lost his life, but our friends showed no inclination to turn back on the enemy.
She put her hand up to her throat with a gasp to keep down the sudden inclination to cry out.
I have no personal inclination towards medicine, while I have a very strong objection to simply living in the world upon money which other men have earned.
The two fugitives had their breakfast; but as it consisted of nothing more appetising than tinned corned-beef and ships' biscuits, and as neither of them had much inclination for food, it was not a very lengthy meal.
He will produce only that which he wills, for hisinclination prompts him to good.
Now it was necessary for the conservation of corruptible animals that they should have indications causing them to recognize a present danger, and giving them the inclination to avoid it.
What is deceptive in this subject, as I have already observed, is that one feels an inclination to believe that what is the best in the whole is also the best possible in each part.
As soon as one tries to give an example of it one misses one's aim and stumbles upon the case of a man who, while he does not come to a decision without cause, does so rather under the influence of inclination or passion than of judgement.
Thus though one may never have complete indifference of equipoise, and there is always a predominance of inclination for the course adopted, that predominance does not render absolutely necessary the resolution taken.
This hardening is not to be taken as meaning that God inspires men with a kind of anti-grace, that is, a kind of repugnance to good, or even an inclination towards evil, just as the grace that he gives is an inclination towards good.
Norah was very much distressed by her mother's rudeness; Bell was struggling with a nervousinclination to giggle, which was the effect it always produced upon her.
He had been very forgetful all these days past, and his conscience reproached him, and his inclination spoke too.
I have no inclination to tumble into one of those pits," added she, pointing to the hatchway.
He felt an inclination to put the question to Mr Scratton, as he passed through the office; but checked the wish, lest it should appear like prying into his uncle's affairs.
Something in the pose of the kneeling man struck her--a certain helpless inclination forward.
There is a very natural inclination on the part of a tyro in riding, lady or gentleman (having seen a horse jump under another person), to suppose that some effort of the hand is necessary to lift the horse over the obstacle.
In a very brief time the long whip can be dispensed with, and all inclination to throw the haunches in will cease.
In neither case has he the time nor inclination to listen to their suggestions or heed their maledictions.
The least stoical of mankind sometimes feel theinclination toward an act of heroism, which, though in a measure forced upon them, is nevertheless not without its dignity.
The captain answered by a solemn affirmative inclination of the head.
He could only reply by an inclination of the head.
Poor Richard appears to have inherited little of his father but the inclination to choler.
Another striking quality in Hamlet's nature is his perpetual inclination to irony.
You see I have others to struggle for the Honour propos'd, and I never had a less Inclination to find out this Basilisk than at present, since I have once more met with my dearest Zadig.
Zadig had now noInclination to fight for one so undeserving any more.
My dear son, you well remember, no doubt, that I have always looked upon lying and deception as the greatest of sins; and from your childish years upwards you have always had a great inclination thereto.
As he showed no inclination to meet the horseman, therefore, the latter betrayed considerable impatience.
They were too far apart to identify each other, but neither showed any inclination to approach nearer.
Sun Bird said that he had never penetrated farther than that point, and he showed no inclination to continue.
