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Example sentences for "disposed"

Lexicographically close words:
disporting; disports; disposable; disposal; dispose; disposer; disposes; disposeth; disposicion; disposicioun
  1. But when the cerebral plasm is fresh and well disposed and when the paths are clear, attention is consecutive and learning easy; a multitude of details can be gathered into a single cycle of memory or of potential regard.

  2. That they might refuse to be disposed of so high-handedly?

  3. They're usually disposed of to a title or some little thing like that, aren't they?

  4. Experiments and Observations touching Bodies Disposed to be Frozen.

  5. The religiously disposed courtiers were shocked and outraged by his enormities, and, at last, the King requested his unwelcome visitor to go back to Tuscany.

  6. Six thousand men were disposed along the side of the city opposite the fortress.

  7. At the same time, while every man who had hands was disposed to bear arms to defend the city, the Council seemed paralyzed.

  8. This done, the remaining matters could be disposed of by the assembly of the estates-general.

  9. Champagny, however; was ill-disposed to brook their licentiousness.

  10. There was, moreover, a strong aristocratic faction which was by no means disposed to take a liberal view of government in general, and regarded with apprehension the simultaneous advance of heretical notions both in church and, state.

  11. In Antwerp, Champagny, brother of Granvelle, and governor of the city, was disposed to cultivate friendly relations with the Prince of Orange.

  12. But I don't mind a game at rackets, if anyone is disposed for it.

  13. His wife is evidently disposed to be kind, and my work will be no harder than an agricultural labourer's, at any rate as long as we stay here.

  14. They would see the goods again; doubtless they were of a better quality than they supposed; and so the bargain was recommenced, and after some hours a considerable portion of the goods that had been brought up were disposed of.

  15. England was no readier for peace, and no more disposed to make advances than was Germany, but she was cleverer and succeeded in conveying to the world that she was the Power endangered by Germany's plans for expansion.

  16. If the situation is described to-day as though the inhabitants of the Monarchy, and especially the Social Democrats, were favourably disposed for any eventuality, even for a separate peace, I must again most emphatically repudiate it.

  17. In the spirit of the Entente, now more favourably disposed for peace, an undertone was distinctly audible.

  18. Skrzynski writes: "'I learn from a reliable source that France has issued the following notification: We were already quite disposed to enter into discussion with Austria.

  19. Russia was disposed to agree to this, but demanded on the other hand that the fate of Poland was not to be decided until after evacuation.

  20. The Cabinet then in power evinced no particular inclination, or at any rate no hurry, to fulfil obligations on this scale, but was more disposed to point out that it would be altogether impossible, for various reasons, to do so.

  21. Had the Entente then been disposed to make peace the principle of "no annexations" would have succeeded throughout.

  22. In the present case it appears incomprehensible why a Note should have been selected which by its wording gave umbrage to many who hitherto were favourably disposed towards us.

  23. We should far rather use every endeavour to obtain what could be obtained from Roumania through the medium of such politicians in that country as were disposed to follow a policy of friendly relations with the Central Powers.

  24. We were wedged in between these two movements and unable to strike out for ourselves, because the Entente, bound by their promises to their Allies, had already disposed of us by the Pact of London and the undertakings to Roumania and Serbia.

  25. I am not disposed to effect any insurance on the war ventures of our enemies.

  26. But to-day he was not at all disposed to draw.

  27. Very well; so let it be the poison case," said the justice, considering that that case could be disposed of by four o'clock and make it possible for him to keep the appointment.

  28. A villager, returning from the mart, where he had disposed of his charcoal and visited an inn, offered her a kopeck.

  29. He intended to dispose of this land in the same manner as he disposed of the other, and also desired to learn all there was known about Katiousha, and to find out if it was true that their child had died.

  30. Always disposed to find merit, even where any stray grains of the article lay buried in rubbish, he would amiably say the utmost that could justly be said in favor of "struggling genius.

  31. Nor was 'Tenty disposed to tell her anything; for it occurred for the first time to her innocent soul that she had nothing to tell.

  32. They lingered for some time over the fruit and coffee, and when they rose to go Darrow suggested that, if she felt disposed for the play, they were not too late for the second part of the programme at one of the smaller theatres.

  33. But at that he had somewhat irritably protested: he remembered that, for the first time, they were both rather irritable, and vaguely disposed to resist one another's suggestions.

  34. Anna had exacted of Owen that no one, not even Sophy Viner, should be given a hint of her own projects till all contingent questions had been disposed of.

  35. The intervening hours had been disposed of in a stroll through the lively streets, and a repast, luxuriously lingered over, under the chestnut-boughs of a restaurant in the Champs Elysees.

  36. Ordinarily Darrow would have felt little disposed to involve himself in the adventure of a young female who had lost her trunk; but at the moment he was glad of any pretext for activity.

  37. I at least am not disposed to be careless about her legal position.

  38. This took away from the act which had been perpetrated the appearance of private animosity, or love of plunder; and Earnscliff was now disposed to regard it as a symptom of civil war.

  39. His brothers shared between them some trusses of clean straw, disposed in the stall usually occupied by old Annaple's cow; and the females arranged themselves for repose as well as the accommodations of the cottage would permit.

  40. The old man was seated an a broad flat stone near his garden door, which was the seat of science he usually occupied when disposed to receive his patients or clients.

  41. Ignatius and Hippolytus are not thus to be disposed of.

  42. In his earliest work, like that great critic, he had been disposed to divide all extant authorities into five separate classes; but he soon reduced them to two, the Alexandrian and the Constantinopolitan.

  43. Neither Winer nor his careful translator, Professor Moulton, seems disposed to yield to Lachmann's authority in this matter.

  44. In his earlier edition of his Prolegomena (1730) he had spoken of the oldest Greek uncial copies as they deserve; he was even disposed to take Cod.

  45. Whatever risks, whatever latitude she might have been disposed to take with regard to her own mind, she would not take as to the mind of another, and as a consequence her own standards rose to meet the situation.

  46. The creditors were disposed to be lenient.

  47. And in the third the Greeks disposed their band of music.

  48. Corneille, who was the first who brought the French tragedy to any perfection, and whom all the rest have followed, found the whole nation enamoured with the perusal of romances, and little disposed to admire any thing not resembling them.

  49. The passage of the Alps gave Asdrubal very little trouble, because his brother had cleared the way for him, and all the nations were disposed to receive him.

  50. This city was compassed about with seven distinct walls, all disposed in such a manner, that the outermost did not hinder the parapet of the second from being seen, nor the second that of the third, and so of all the rest.

  51. For that purpose they invented a kind of large vessels of copper, which were disposed under the seats of the theatre, in such a manner, as made all sounds strike upon the ear with more force and distinctness.

  52. Two of the pirates are sacrificed to an outbreak of Indian fury, but the others are saved by El Sol, and it then becomes a question how they are to be disposed of.

  53. Upon the whole, we are fully disposed to agree with Messrs Reinaud and Fave, that the invention of gunpowder is by no means due to Bacon.

  54. His wife was spoken of as a mere simple instrument in his hand; naturally disposed to goodness, but perverted by the cruel necessity of her position.

  55. We, however, are rather disposed to regard them as ingenious extravagances.

  56. Rupert," I replied, "I am not disposed to desert you at so critical a period of our life.

  57. Lord Brougham's French predilections do credit to his sense of cosmopolitism; but he appears to us somewhat more disposed to conciliate the jealousy of his very irritable French confreres, than to deal rigorous justice.

  58. When he had seen him safely disposed for slumber, he returned below, shut the door in the hall, drew up the great oaken chair to the fire, and sat there far into the night smoking and thinking.

  59. Here one rose to handle him, there another, but none seemed disposed to purchase.

  60. Carrington might have been dealing with mutinous dusky troopers instead of free Englishmen who farmed their own land, and the lads who had at first appeared disposed to side with him hesitated.

  61. No one seemed disposed to dispute these ideas.

  62. But any compromise recognizing Slavery in the Rebel States is impossible, even if you are disposed to accept it.

  63. It is impossible for any person recognizing the Proclamation of Emancipation, or disposed to stand by it, to vote against the amendment I now offer.

  64. If Senators are disposed to criticize it, or to offer amendments with a view to its improvement, let them do so.

  65. Victory had given confidence, and the exulting Republic was standing tiptoe, more disposed to strike than negotiate, unless it could dictate, and implacable always towards England and all supposed to sympathize with that power.

  66. Meanwhile, it is proposed that abandoned lands shall be leased to freedmen, and, if they are not able and disposed to take the lands for a twelvemonth, then they are to be leased to other persons.

  67. Whoever is in favor of those provisions, whoever is disposed to keep alive the coastwise slave-trade, or to recognize it in our statutes, will naturally vote against my motion.

  68. On this point I am disposed to agree with the Director.

  69. Now, Sir, we are told that the House has disposed of the question of taxation.

  70. They ran to and fro in front of the whare, and raised barking cries that sounded fearfully menacing to the pakeha sitting on his low mat-bed, and feeling not in the least disposed to respond to the invitation to come outside and be killed.

  71. None of the passengers were in a mood to go to bed, with the end of their voyage so near, and they seemed, one and all, disposed to discuss the fog.

  72. The best way to carry your lunch is in a pasteboard box, which can be thrown away after you have disposed of the contents.

  73. With the weight of a bitter disappointment resting upon him, he wrought successfully at his trade, despite the efforts of certain evil disposed persons, who sought to crush him in the hour of his defeat.

  74. At this rate the edition would speedily be disposed of.

  75. And moreover,” replied Gutenberg, “when we have disposed of one hundred copies, we can issue as many more in a shorter time.

  76. Ancient books were not commonly disposed in a square form, as with us, but were rolled up.

  77. The types were disposed in cases much as they are now.

  78. As time passed, numbers were disposed of to the nobility, and occasionally one to some favored tradesman who had conquered his alphabet.

  79. The West Indians have taken such an attitude of desperation that the Government is somewhat alarmed, and seems disposed to pause at the adoption of its abolitionary measures.

  80. He said that on his return to town he saw Lord Grey, who said that he wished to know what were the intentions of his party, and how far they were disposed to go, and what concessions they looked for.

  81. As to the £10, he said he had at first been disposed to consider it too low, but he had changed his mind, and now doubted if it would not turn out to be too high.

  82. The Duke of Wellington and Lord Harrowby have had some good-humoured talk, and the former seems well disposed to join in amending the Bill, but the difficulty will be to bring these extreme and irritated parties to any agreement as to terms.

  83. Charles Wood told me the other day that they were well disposed to a compromise on two special points, one the exclusion of town voters from the right of voting for counties, the other the metropolitan members.

  84. I told her the substance of what I had heard about his being disposed to a compromise.

  85. After consultation we agreed he had better go alone, that it would be less formal, and that Lord Grey would be more disposed to open himself.

  86. He discharged these duties so faithfully that he came to be his master's forester and factotum, and indeed one of his best friends, though a little disposed to tyrannize over Scott in his own fashion.

  87. Every Englishman present was disposed to confess that we had been beaten at our own trade.


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