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Example sentences for "felt inclined"

  • One of the men asked me if I felt inclined to cash there and then a forged bill of exchange, which I had given the night before, and which he held in his hands.

  • My readers may imagine whether we felt inclined to laugh when the charming creature bade us good night, thanking us all with perfect good faith!

  • For all that, I knew that I had fought a battle, and I felt inclined to boast at having won the victory.

  • I flew into a passion at once: I felt inclined to kill the unfortunate man.

  • I felt inclined to call at Eaton Square, but doubted whether, if she were ill, she would receive me.

  • Sometimes I felt inclined to regard my mysterious divinity as a mere adventuress; at others I became lost in contemplation and puzzled over her words almost to the point of madness.

  • For a single instant I felt inclined to turn and leave him abruptly, but I quickly realised the necessity of not betraying suspicion if I desired to penetrate the mystery.

  • I had never had a lover, never thought of such a thing, and when my goodness was praised I felt inclined to laugh.

  • I hoped I should be asked to take the diamond to Paris myself, and I felt inclined to grant the request.

  • I felt inclined to laugh, but none the less I admired the foresight of my Spaniard, for a man in despair is capable of anything.

  • Twenty-three years afterwards, in 1784, I found him in Venice, valet to Count Hardegg, and I felt inclined to have him hanged.

  • And, without considering that there is another injustice which is human, and which is called robbery and violence, he felt inclined to go into one of those houses to murder the inhabitants and to sit down to table in their stead.

  • I dreamed of the moonlight on the water, until I felt inclined to drown myself.

  • I raised her from her knees, and said I felt inclined to help her, but that in the first place she must calm herself, and in the second share my supper.

  • Her tutelary genius must have placed her in my hands, for I felt inclined to do her all the good that lay in my power.

  • When my parents had gone I felt inclined to cry, but the Mother Superior took me by the hand and, leading me to the Middle Wood, showed me where my garden would be.

  • I had a quantity of different kinds of fancy work commenced, and could take up one or the other as I felt inclined.

  • I felt inclined to cry, but I was more vexed than anything else.

  • I felt inclined to cry out: "Brutes that you are!

  • Nobody could tell what she was thinking of, and I felt inclined to run pins into them, and to destroy those mirrors of falseness.

  • For a moment I felt inclined to draw back.

  • Striking as he felt inclined to strike at anything and everything; most of all at the hateful confusion in himself, and in his world.

  • Lance, his hope of walking back with Erda gone, felt inclined to take to the canoe again.

  • Yet they, too, felt inclined to agree with the drug-seller.

  • For the moment he felt inclined to obey it literally.

  • Her freedom from conventional cloakings in speech was at all times a trifle disconcerting, and he felt inclined to reply "That is very kind of you," or make some other banal remark of the sort which might bring convention back.

  • When he felt inclined to bless himself, it was because he could picture her in the latter; when curses came it was because he regretted the former.

  • Only the shrouds and stays on the starboard side now held it to the hull; and, consequently, when it felt inclined to shift its position athwart ship it could easily do so.

  • A terrible pain, one of those attacks of pain which make men scream, roll on the ground, and bite the furniture, was tearing at his entrails, and he felt inclined to take a knife and plunge it into his stomach.

  • He felt inclined to kill them, to throw his siphon of Seltzer water at them, to split open Limousin's head as he every moment bent it over his plate, raising it again immediately.

  • I felt inclined to kiss something, no matter what; it was love, laying its snare.

  • Well, from my office I could see a small bit of blue sky and the swallows, and I felt inclined to dance among my portfolios.

  • I began to fairly despise myself for my weakness, in that for the moment I felt inclined to turn my horse's head and ride back to Florence.

  • Time after time I felt inclined to strike a sudden blow; but held myself in.

  • More than once I felt inclined to turn, and end the matter for myself; but the fact that this might mean laying aside all chance of settling D'Entrangues, urged me to my best efforts.

  • I was bored beyond measure, and I felt inclined to say how troublesome it is to have such a welcome.

  • I laughed, dearest, because I felt inclined to tell you to consult the oracle this time.

  • The rest of the day I spent alone, wandering whithersoever I pleased, staying away as long as I chose, and returning when I felt inclined.

  • He was himself again almost immediately--so soon that I could scarcely credit the change--and more than once afterwards I felt inclined to put that evil look and lowering brow down to a trick of my imagination.

  • I felt inclined to throw it back to him; but I did not.

  • I fancy he felt inclined to assure me that Mary's was also.

  • He felt inclined to follow him; to knock him down.

  • I felt inclined to smother a man, it was that Marr.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    distinct individual; father left; felt ashamed; felt assured; felt better; felt confident; felt disposed; felt himself; felt like; felt much; felt myself; felt obliged; felt quite; felt rather; felt ready; felt the; felt when; good song; great intelligence; internal affairs; made under the law; might possibly; silver dollars; then found; whereupon they; write home