Inclinations

Examples

• Now, your inclinations are to be consulted. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Nor, in my opinion, has any man less merit for having, in general, natural virtuous inclinations. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I done what I could to keep you and Tickler in sunders, but my power were not always fully equal to my inclinations. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Their own inclinations ascertained, there were no difficulties behind, no drawback of poverty or parent. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He seemed to have all the life and spirit, cheerful feelings, and social inclinations of his father, and nothing of the pride or reserve of Enscombe. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The polite and attentive stranger would desire, say, to consult her inclinations on the subject of potatoes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It is not saying too much: I know what I feel, and how averse are my inclinations to the bare thought of marriage. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• If your inclinations chime with your sense of duty--' Harry began. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Apart from any inclinations of my own, I understood Wemmick's hint now. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But if my friends require of me to gratify not only their inclinations, but their resentments, they expect too much of me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• My own inclinations are to push this inquiry on, for we have already lost so much time that we cannot afford to waste another hour. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You cannot suppose me capable of trying to persuade you to marry against your inclinations. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Hence the various purposes or inclinations that alternately prevail, and the uncertainty that perplexes us. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And I do not know whether Miss Bates is not as likely to understand the inclinations of the rest of the people as any body. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Gargery's power to part you and Tickler in sunders were not fully equal to his inclinations. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Even had that not been so, the inclinations of the boy barely ten years old were toward chemistry, and fifty years later there is seen no change of predilection. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The self-denial here meant must be when our inclinations are towards vice, or else it would still be nonsense. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Yes, Miss Bennet, interest; for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends, if you wilfully act against the inclinations of all. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He has begged you not to force her inclinations. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Had she followed her inclinations, she would have cut the parson also; her Yorkshire soul revolted absolutely from his manner of command. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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