Indisposed

Examples

• No class will abolish itself, materially alter its way of living, or drastically reconstruct itself, albeit no class is indisposed to co-operate in the unlimited socialization of any other class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Herself, said Will, not indisposed to provoke the charming Mrs. Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She has been indisposed all day, and we have persuaded her to go to bed. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Mr. Glauber went home seriously indisposed at his rebuff, took a cooling draught, and is now quite cured. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She sat still, looking a little contumacious, and very much indisposed to stir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mrs. Jenkinson was chiefly employed in watching how little Miss de Bourgh ate, pressing her to try some other dish, and fearing she was indisposed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But if I only knew of some good doctor, I would go this afternoon, and ask him to come, for I am sure mamma is seriously indisposed. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Indisposed to hesitate, and full of impatient impulses--soul and senses quivering with keen throes--I put it back and looked in. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Boots and Brewer, thinking him indisposed, whisper, 'Man faint. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The Athenians were content to humiliate Pericles, but he had served them so long that they were indisposed to do without him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It had slipped my memory that you have good reasons to be indisposed for joining in my chatter. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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