The western miner, the western agriculturist, worried beyond endurance between the money-lender and railway combinations will be almost equally prone to savage methods of expression.
Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them.
The more we love a woman the more prone we are to hate her.
The librarian is too prone to think that all the most useful knowledge is in books or printed form.
The apologists are prone to remind the Senate that they are acting under the obligation of an oath.
The lawyer in other days has been, as we know him, prone to the support of power, and ready with technical reasons.
I am prone to paint pictures to myself, and on this occasion I had some materials to work upon.
People, it is true, did talk--but have not people been prone to talk ever since the world began?
He loves the estate even better than he does the Squire; and thwarts the latter sadly in many of his projects of improvement, being a littleprone to disapprove of every plan that does not originate with himself.
But then the Spanish females were so prone to love and intrigue; and music and moonlight were so seductive, and Inez had such a tender soul languishing in every look.
The good Squire's heart warmed towards the luckless cosmopolite, for he is a little prone to like such half-vagrant characters.
No; prone along the floor, covering six feet or more of ground, lay the hideous corpse of Moody, the cannibal.
If even that government is prone to degenerate into tyranny, what must be the character of that form of polity in which the standard qualification for access to power is wealth in the possession of slaves?
Some who are prone to run away, have iron fetters riveted around their ancles, sometimes they are put only on one foot, and are dragged on the ground.
A man with sore feet is prone to feel that the ground he stands on is at least solid.
He was a man with the cordial nature of his race, prone to an easy kindliness, who would have suffered almost any ill rather than feel himself guilty of a cruelty.
An excessive amount of milk often distends the breasts of those women who are prone to have long and profuse monthly sickness.
In this respect they differ from twins, who, as has just been said, are peculiarlyprone to make their appearance at the first childbirth.
Moist and damp climates are said also to render women particularly prone to it.
All women are more or less liable to it, but those who are weakly, and particularly those who are scrofulous, are most prone to its attacks.
And will he not, from his own interest in that species of property, be sufficiently prone to resist every attempt to prejudice or encumber it?
I'm too proneto trifling, and the remark slipped out thoughtlessly.
You may have noticed that Time is proneto reticence.
I am sure it hasn't; but Elise has had very few friends and has been brought up in such a selfish world, that she is perhaps prone to see the wrong motive.
She suited the action to the word and Mrs. Brown, emerging from the bear hug that Molly was prone to give, surprised a smile on the dark face of their fellow traveler.
Kindly inform that for what department he is constrained and prone to pass and sat for.
In vain Cape Grinez, coming frankly forth into the sea, exhorts the failing to be stout of heart and stomach; sneaking Calais, prone behind its bar, invites emetically to despair.
While he was not prone to seek a quarrel, he certainly had never avoided one because of fear of his antagonist.
Her book," murmured Sarah, who was a laconic young person, much given to observing conditions about her and equally prone to keep her conclusions to herself.
Women are particularly prone to ask for an interview, and this because they instinctively rely to some extent on the appeal of their personality in most of their business transactions.
A letter, if it is to seem a real letter, should be discursive; and this is the very thing the amateur needs to guard against when writing a story, if that story is to show force and action; he is prone to be too discursive as it is.
He is prone to indulge in rather grotesque gestures, expressive of admiration of the brilliant decorations surrounding him, and profuse, even servile gratitude for the hospitality extended to him.
It must be said, however, that as to anecdotes touching their heroes, biographers are greatlyprone to be credulous.
Thistleton Dyer[2] remarks that it is an old prejudice, not yet extinct, that those who are defective or deformed are marked by nature as prone to mischief.
They are continually taking "cold," and are prone throughout life to affections of an inflammatory character.
In an age of unsettlement, the more daring spirits will be prone to silence their inconvenient scruples by rushing into atheism, while the more timid may take refuge in Popery.
We are not astonished by such a statement as "the word of the Lord came unto me;" it may be understood in more senses than one, and perhaps we are unconsciously prone to understand it in what is called a natural sense.
Under these discouraging circumstances, men are fatally prone to seek escape from their self-involved dilemma, by a hardy denial of what their methods have failed to discover and their favourite theories to explain.
Climate renders both the men and women of those provinces extremely prone to sensuality.
If Cynthia had not been there all would have gone on as she had anticipated; but of all the victims to Cynthia's charms he fell most prone and abject.
