Invincible by their patience of thirst and heat, their spirits were frozen by a winter's cold, and the consciousness of their propensity to sleep exacted the most rigorous precautions against the surprises of the night.
Gibbon, with thatpropensity too common, especially in his later volumes, has selected only the grosser part of this singular adventure.
In a word, I looked into every species of publication I could lay my hands on; and I never have been honoured by one second of ennui, or felt a propensity to an hour’s languor during my existence except when I was actually sick.
Her propensity for petty management seems to have been stronger than her love for the entertainment; for another visitor coming in later asks "why Fortunata sits not among us?
Yet, setting this aside as unworthy of credence, evidence seems to prove abundantly his propensity for those gallantries which were considered among the least reprehensible immoralities by the men of his time.
It also seems that while his wife was by his side he was able to withstand any propensity that was in him to go down into Egypt.
A propensity to satire of the most violent and personal description seems to have been almost universal in these excited times.
What is further very extraordinary in this Work, is, that the Persons are all of them laudable, and their Misfortunes arise rather from unguarded Virtue than Propensity to Vice.
At the other end of the cage was a spring board, to enable him to indulge to his full bent in his propensity for leaping.
When I observe how strong is our propensity for scandal, and with what greediness evil-speaking is listened to, I cannot help wishing that there were such a tribunal in every one's bosom.
If we unmask our actions and our motives, we shall find this propensity at the bottom of much of what is called--virtuous indignation.
In all such affairs, the visitor notices a kind of ungovernable propensity to vote for spending money, and a prompt disgust at any obstacle raised or objection made.
Indeed, there is such a propensity in the public to present colors to popular regiments, that some of them have as many as five stands, of various degrees of splendor.
Heaven help a man who came into the world with that propensity in the early days of King George the Third.
Madame shot at me the swiftest of glances and laughed, and I suspected that she divined Nick's propensityfor adventure.
I should, therefore, have tarried some hundreds of miles more to the eastward, were it not for the inward propensity that I feel to have the beast in question inspected and suitably described and classed.
Those sentiments exhibit the early propensityof Burke's mind to a generous dealing with political opponents.
We shall not call it an affectation in the instance of so great a man, but it paid all the penalties of folly--and this was his propensity to feel, or at least to express, a personal affection for the men whom he politically followed.
Poetry never was my natural turn; and what little propensity I had to it, is totally extinguished by age and pain.
I am a little surprised at his brother, who is a seaman, having a propensity to divinity, and wonder you object to it; the church navigant would be an extension of its power.
Lies, without their natural propensityto falsehoods, they could not avoid, for every minute produces some, at least exaggerations.
My chief propensity to exaggeration would be on the miserable nights I have passed; and yet whatever I should say would not be beyond what I thought I suffered.
Montesquieu was one of the many writers who attributed this propensity as being nearly exclusive to the English.
In a short period, he is seized with a most inordinate propensity to talk nonsense, though he is perfectly conscious of doing so.
The former writer divides this fatal propensity into acute and chronic; the first marked by great physical excitement, the latter accompanied or preceded by sadness, moroseness, and love of solitude.
Her propensity to talk in her sleep continued to the time of her dismissal, but a great change had taken place in her nocturnal conversation.
It is but too true that in melancholy madness we often observe a prevailing propensity to self-destruction.
These invaders amounted to four thousand, and the Irish discovered a strong propensity to join them, in order to free themselves from the English government, with which they were extremely discontented.
The castigation did not cure him of hispropensity to evil.
The success of mine is yet problematical; though the public will probably purchase a certain quantity, on the presumption of their own propensity for 'The Giaour' and such "horrid mysteries.
It may seem strange that the sporting propensity of schoolboys should have thus defied and survived the ban placed upon it by the pious Founder; but the history of Eton shows it to have been always the home of cruel sports.
In view of the fact that the sportsman of the present day professes to be civilised, and is at any rate nominally a member of a civilised State, it is quite irrelevant to plead that the propensity to hunt is natural to the savage man.
The destruction of the collection didn't kill the propensity to collect, however, any more than you can change a man's opinions by burning his library.
And in this does the specialist reveal that his normal propensity to collect has degenerated.
I will venture to affirm that, when there is no envy in the case, our propensity to sympathize with joy is much stronger than our propensity to sympathize with sorrow.
A benevolent propensityof heart to being in general, and a temper or disposition to love God supremely, are in effect the same thing.
Therefore they are good moral agents whose temper of mind or propensity of heart is agreeable to the end for which God made moral agents.
When he was only about six years of age, he began to discover a propensity to reflection, and seemed solicitous to gain information on religious subjects.
The printer was industrious, sober, inclined to methodism, and of a propensity to accumulation.
