Disposed

Examples

• She is stouter, too, and altogether improved, continued Miss Rosalind, who was disposed to be very fat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Fanny was disposed to think the influence of London very much at war with all respectable attachments. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I announced myself and was disposed of with the highly satisfactory results embodied before you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The reader will naturally be disposed to ask whether it is intended to claim that Edison has brought about all this magnificent growth of the electric-lighting art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Few reached their objective, and those that did were readily disposed of. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I was present myself, and I remember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused, at a part of myself being disposed of in that way. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There was one person among his new acquaintance in Surry, not so leniently disposed. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He's a ill-conditioned, wicious, bad-disposed porochial child that,' said Mr. Bumble angrily. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Pray do, Sir, if you feel disposed; now pray do, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I never lecture Henry, never feel disposed to do so. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I feel disposed to call him out, if I could only get a trustworthy second. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I should be disposed to refer coquetry to another source, said Mr. Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Eyeing Mr. Bounderby from head to foot again, he turned from him, as from a man finally disposed of, to Mr. Gradgrind. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• His aunt had shown her inclination; perhaps his grandfather himself, they hinted, might be disposed to be reconciled to him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• So I should be disposed to imagine,' replied Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This, too, when Mr. Quale, one of the first philanthropists of our time, has mentioned to me that he was really disposed to be interested in her! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He was disposed to interfere too much, was he? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I can price the Mounds to a fraction, and I know how they can be best disposed of; and likewise that they take no harm by standing where they do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The writer is, however, disposed to give the Neolithic men credit for having discovered milking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• George spread his cloak in the wagon, and had the body carefully disposed of in it,--moving the seat, so as to give it room. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Moore, little disposed to speak, made his purse do duty for his tongue. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Nothing in the world, I said; and if you are so disposed I will ask and you shall answer. Plato. The Republic.
• I am disposed to think,' says he, 'that this is a question of the feelings of a gentleman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was lucky for me that I had one as much disposed to industry and frugality as myself. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Mr. and Mrs. Badger were here yesterday, Richard, said I, and they seemed disposed to think that you had no great liking for the profession. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And now having disposed of my most valuable property I hope all will be satisfied and not blame the dead. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• At evening he crawled slowly back; and he used to go of nights to a little club at a tavern, where he disposed of the finances of the nation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Thus disposed, she looked her best, and her best was a pleasing vision. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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