How To Use Disposed In A Sentence

The friend had also overheard the man say he had disposed of the handgun used in the crime, according to the in - formant. Just A 'Random' Crime
We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
Even the sight of a gibbet, if it assured him that one robber was safely disposed of by justice, never failed to remind him how many remained still unhanged. Rob Roy
Women aren't disposed to sweeter tastes, or men to sourer, Bell says – the fact that we think they are is an element of our cultural story. The truth about men, women and food
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They disposed of them without much trouble, because their enemies had no organization or strength in any type of numbers.
Traders in Waterfoot hit out at DEFRA'S new guidelines that rule all waste disposed of by business owners must be accompanied by a certificate of proof, showing how the waste was disposed.
Other, roumyng the cities vp and downe and caryeng alway in bottles faire watre and fresshe, if any man be disposed to drinke, vnasked they willingly proffre it him, and refuse not to take, if he for their gentlenesse offre aught vnto them agayn. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
After several negroes, both male and female, had been disposed of here, the party again adjourned to another sale-room adjoining. Slave Auctions in Richmond, Virginia
After the lapse of a fortnight, Hepburn, candidate for congressman-at-large, declined to accept because "it is quite apparent that a very large portion of the Republicans, owing to the unfortunate circumstances which have come to light since the adjournment of the convention, are not disposed to accept its conclusion as an authoritative utterance of the party." [ A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
The first process, self-selection, was created by internal motivational states and/or external incentives that disposed some people to volunteer for treatment.
His lifestyle predisposed him to high blood pressure.
The aortal trunk, G, of the arterial system is disposed along the median line, as well for its own safety as for the fitting distribution of those branches which spring symmetrically from either side of it to supply the lateral regions of the body. Surgical Anatomy
This makes you feel woozy and well disposed to others around you. The Sun
And he who were pleasantly disposed could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate.
The sleeve maintains a consistently low temperature throughout the vertically disposed shelves of the cryobiological materials contained within the inner tank.
A fingerprint is disposed to close the open circuit by making contact and thereby serving as a ‘temporary’ back electrode.
According to research findings in a study carried out into public perceptions of the NDP, the region is the most positively disposed to the NDP with 86 per cent support.
It has already sold its citrus business in Florida and disposed of idle properties in California.
With his keen sight and sound judgment, it would not have taken him long to determine that the inner part of the bay does not consist of floating barrier, but that the Barrier there rests upon a good, solid foundation, probably in the form of small islands, skerries, or shoals, and from this point he and his able companions would have disposed of the South Polar question once for all. The South Pole~ Plan and Preparations
_Agesilaus_ hauing a great sort of little children, was one day disposed to solace himself among them in a gallery where they plaied, and tooke a little hobby horse of wood and bestrid it to keepe them in play, one of his friends seemed to mislike his lightnes, o good friend quoth The Arte of English Poesie
In old country-houses in England, instead of glass for windows, they used wicker, or fine strips of oak disposed checkerwise. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
They are likely to be well disposed to an offer of a separate peace deal.
Sheila Jones is indisposed, so the part of the Countess will be sung tonight by Della Drake.
Dogs bred to have exaggerated angulation in the hindquarters, extreme pelvic slope, or are poorly muscled, poorly angulated, and narrow in the hips seem more predisposed.
“Gone to her room a little evil-disposed, I am informed, and laid down in her bed for a gliff,” said her grandmother; “as soon as she wakes, she shall take some drops.” Old Mortality
With a sigh of relief he recalled how lucky he was on the night he disposed of the clothes in the skip.
Most of these flow from the streets and gutters, where they have been inappropriately disposed of, and into our waterways.
Is it not obvious that one of the reasons that an ethnic group might do less well in academics is that they are genetically predisposed to lower âintelligenceâ level, as measured by those academics (regardless of which ethnic group youâre talking about)? The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
The tentacles around the mouth are disposed in concentric circles, usually forming a series of radial lines rather than being alternately arranged.
The consequences are that a lot of hoggs which would have otherwise gone into the food chain have been disposed of at public expense and there is now a scarcity of sheep meat.
They were all sympathetically disposed towards her bitter experience.
A weak constitution disposed her to frequent illness.
This is not surprising because females were virgins and may have been predisposed to accept any mate because they required sperm.
Upon the same occasion, they sometimes wear a kind of leathern cloak, covered with rows of dried hoofs of deer, disposed horizontally, appended by leathern thongs, covered with quills, which, when they move, make a round rattling noise, almost equal to that of many small bells. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
She has a headache and is rather indisposed.
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists.
All three agreed that it is difficult to lead the masses anywhere - unless they are predisposed to head in that direction anyways.
There are specific genes that make people more or less disposed to the bitter taste in sprouts. Times, Sunday Times
A surface acoustic wave device includes interdigital transducer electrode and reflectors disposed on a piezoelectric substrate.
Waste which cannot be reused or recycled will have to disposed of outside of the county.
However, having disposed of a few canards, he weakens his own case by his willingness to advance the best possible interpretation of Nelson's actions on almost every occasion.
The market was known as a place where people disposed of stolen property.
A pin array is connectively disposed between a surface region of a heat sink and a surface region of an entity to be cooled.
And having deduced 'that good of man which is private and particular, as far as seemeth fit,' he returns 'to that good of man which respects and beholds society,' which he terms DUTY, because the term of duty is more proper to a mind well framed and disposed towards others, as the term of VIRTUE is applied to a mind well formed and composed in itself; though neither can a man understand _virtue, without some relation to society_, nor _duty, without an inward disposition_. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
Mesogastric, urogastric, cardiac, and intestinal lobes disposed in a longitudinal, continous band, flanked by accessory lobes.
The researchers cautioned that the study only predicts the likelihood that a child will be predisposed to physical prowess.
As the story progresses, his conspicuous use of foreign terms - agapemone, desiderata, virgo intacta, pace, esprit fort - makes us increasingly ill-disposed to tolerate his point of view.
On another occasion, at the same theatre, the prima donna was taken suddenly ill in the midst of a terzetto, in which Tamburini had the bass, and, while supporting her on the stage, this accomplished musician actually took the soprano in his falsetto, and performed the part of the indisposed lady in a manner which drew down universal applause. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
It's a country that is well disposed to the West.
After a lapse of some weeks a gradual thaw commenced, but due to the volume of snow to be disposed of, opening of roads to transport was delayed and it was several weeks before normal travel could be resumed.
Especially as I am temporarily 'indisposed' it was very nice to get out for a walk! Every picture...
What kinde of rafters? what manner of roofe? after what sort the Parlors chambers, closets and lodgings, were disposed? with what kind of seeling they were enclosed and incrusted? wherewithall hanged? with what couler and kinde of painting ouerhead? Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Jon disagreed, but did not feel disposed to argue.
In Brazil Elaps lemniscatus is copied by Oxyrhopus trigeminus, both having black rings disposed in threes. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
His wife, who stood much in awe of him, durst not reply, but her mother bustled up to her support, with arms disposed as if they were about to be a-kimbo at the next reply. — “I gied them to an acquaintance of mine, Gibbie Girder; and what about it now?” The Bride of Lammermoor
The body is disposed of by rolling it off stage, into the crowd: hilarity all round. Times, Sunday Times
With agrarian reform in the air, the landowners did not feel disposed to invest in their land. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
If a bed-ridden meteorologist is told that it rains, he may or he may not receive the fact from the force of testimony; but he will certainly be more prëdisposed to receive it, if he finds that his weatherglass is falling rather than rising. Probabilities : An aid to Faith
The two sonometers were disposed in planes forming 90 degrees with the vacuum cleaner.
There are two dining rooms, both tightly packed, both with mottled greyish-green walls and bizarrely disposed lumps of varnished pine.
Here again were oxen, mules and asses, or great bucks such as we now know as eland or kudoo, carried in on rough litters of boughs to be disposed of by parties of savage huntsmen who had shot them with arrows or trapped them in pitfalls. Elissa
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Independence Day (Blog for Democracy)
Even if the ministry had the desire to do us justice, their unacquaintance with our wants would prevent their inclinations from being of any service to us; though I am not disposed to think, from our past experience, that any Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
For the vast majority of people - genetically predisposed, virally infected or not - a simple equation still applies. Times, Sunday Times
_ -- Horses knuckling at the fetlock, and all those with diseases which impair the powers of locomotion, such as navicular disease, contracted heels, sidebones, chronic laminitis, etc., are predisposed to sprains of the fetlock. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The league champions quickly disposed of the opposition.
A PR job is fraught with potential pitfalls and catastrophes that are predisposed to causing bad news, he cautions, and lists the sources of disasters.
It is, however, not the product "turpentine" that is most esteemed by the natives, but the fruit of the tree, a kind of drupe disposed in clusters. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
My point is that generalizations like these: “I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent,” andthis: The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
What are you disposed to give for it? Daniel Deronda
They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else.
Now Gore has handily disposed of his Democratic rival and has improved in opinion polls against Bush.
He is favourably disposed to rivers and canals, exhibiting an impressive grasp of detail.
She is disposed to sudden bouts of depression.
Apparently the average club thought nothing of disposing of the works of the Victorian poets in one afternoon; the Italian Renaissance was fully treated and most ably discussed, according to one programme, at a single meeting; Rembrandt and his school were likewise disposed of in one afternoon, and German literature was adequately treated at one session in able papers. Women’s Clubs and Woman Suffrage
I'm not disposed to meet them at the moment.
Olbinett prepared the evening meal with his accustomed punctuality, and after this was dispatched, the travelers disposed themselves for the night in the wagon and in the tent, and were soon sleeping soundly, notwithstanding the melancholy howling of the "dingoes," the jackals of Australia. In Search of the Castaways
This almost certainly has something to do with the national mood since September 11, which has been defensive for obvious reasons, and particularly ill-disposed to introspection and self-doubt.
New users may include women genetically or otherwise predisposed to venous thrombosis, whereas long term users have shown tolerance to the drug.
The year 1965 was a watershed: she replaced the indisposed Marilyn Horne in a Carnegie Hall performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.
The ‘welcome’ signs, artfully disposed, make it clear that hospitality is merely an allusive flavor; they are in no wise meant to be taken literally.
They were all sympathetically disposed towards her bitter experience.
He said a resident of one of the houses that burned often disposed of cigarettes in potted plant containers on his deck. Cigarette started fire that burned five Manassas homes, officials say
As usual in crustose forms, the thalli are composed of hyphae which are densely disposed toward the upper, exposed surface and more loosely disposed toward the lower surface (Fig. 2). Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
In tertian fever, the morbific cause seeking the heart in the first instance, and hanging about the heart and lungs, renders the patient short-winded, disposed to sighing, and indisposed to exertion, because the vital principle is oppressed and the blood forced into the lungs and rendered thick. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
The theory states that individuals possess certain characteristics so that they are predisposed to act in a certain way within a given situation.
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So that an individual who habitually overfeeds becomes, after a time, easily tired, physically lazy, weak, perhaps if temperamentally predisposed, nervous and hypochondriacal. No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes
Drawing is still widely regarded in the Indian art world as a subordinate idiom; however complex or powerful a drawing may be, very few viewers are disposed to accord it an autonomous position.
Her father was indisposed to second Sir Willoughby's opinions even when sharing them.
The provision can be applied to farmers who have afforested some of their land since the beginning of the reference period and those who have disposed of land to a public authority for non agricultural use.
It may be that high levels of cat allergen induce tolerance, which protects against wheeze in very young children, but provoke symptoms in older children predisposed to wheeze for various reasons.
The sad fact for all you ingrates is that seh is indisposed doing the power-suited corporate thing today and I've got time on my hands.
The sight of Psmith and Mr Rossiter proceeding high and disposedly to a mutual lunch became quite common, and ceased to excite remark. Psmith in the City
‘There are at least some well – disposed men in the world,’ ruminated the misanthropical Dumps, as he proceeded towards his destination. Sketches by Boz
This rendered him, according to Bedingfield, "wonderouselye fytte to dooe theys enterp [ri] ses yff he be disposed thereto. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
Some of Johnny's friends saw in this promptitude a high mark of respect and affection; others felt a haste, almost undue, to turn the new erection into a bulletin of "actualities"; and a few surmised that had the work not been done with promptitude it might have come to be done in a leisurely fashion that spelled neglect: if it were to be done, 't were well it were done quickly -- a formal token of regard checked off and disposed of. On the Stairs
But it's not just military assistance that has left Pakistan so well-disposed toward China—Beijing also plays an important role in the Pakistani economy.
I expect, Mr. Harley, that you will be disposed to regard what I have to tell you rather as a symptom of what you call nerves than as evidence of any agency directed against me. Bat Wing
In addition, the mercury is contained – i.e. it can be recycled or disposed of properly (vs. mercury from a power plant that is put into the air we breath). TOM DIXON’s GLOWB Eco-Light Giveaway on Wednesday! | Inhabitat
We told people not to use running streams or rivers as toilet facilities because if the bacteria that carries cholera is disposed in water it grows and spreads faster.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. The Declaration of Independence
In all the time that he has been in the village nobody, I am sure, has had a word to say against him, except indeed old Judd, and he, I fear, is irreclaimably ill disposed to every influence for good in the village. Best Detective Stories
In other classes, as _entozoa_, there appear to be special provisions whereby the sperm-cells and germ-cells may be united; _i. e._, the male organs are developed and so disposed as to fecundate the ova of the same individual. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
She disposed of her parents' possessions
The tube thus disposed is turned from the side of the object of which we wish to take the image, and the time that the chloride of silver takes to become of a greyish slate color will be the time required for the light of the camera to produce a good effect on the iodated silver. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
Her good mood predisposed her to enjoy the play.
He described Thomas Paine as a traitor to his country, a wicked, malicious, seditious and ill-disposed individual, who had actively supported both the American and the French Revolutions.
He said a resident of one of the houses often disposed of cigarettes in potted plant containers on his deck. Va. fire apparently from smoking materials
In the case of hostages and prisoners of war, numerous attempts to find supposed personality defects that predisposed captives to "brainwashing' have yielded few consistent results. Trauma and Recovery
But three large spots "blotches" she had called them, disposed thus Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The bomb has been safely disposed of.
Grounding contacts are disposed adjacent the ball contacts, where the grounding contacts are electrically connected to the ground plane.
I am disposed to agree with you as far as the selection of the location of the new theatre.
The relief is subject to a clawback if the property is disposed of within six years of receiving the gift or inheritance, he said.
Here, let me just wake him up… he's mildly indisposed right now, can I take a message?
Hence he has found it practically the greatest economy of mental labor to work vigorously when he is disposed to do so, and to refrain from exertion, so far as possible, _when it is felt to be an exertion_. The Education of American Girls
Uncontaminated surface water run-off and rainwater from roofs shall be collected separately from slurry and shall be disposed of directly to the nearest drain, ditch, soakpit or watercourse.
This block is more frontally disposed, formally clear, and attuned to the wide space in front of the complex than anything already there.
M to day after haveing disposed of their roots and berries for a fiew fishing hooks and Some other Small articles. we are infestd. with Sworms of flees already in our new habatations; the presumption is therefore Strong that we Shall not devest our Selves of this intolerably troublesom vermin dureing our residence here. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
ULUNDI, May 20 (Reuter) - Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini did not arrive at an official presentation of the new KwaZulu-Natal provincial cabinet and premier Frank Mdlalose in Ulundi on Friday because he was "indisposed". ANC Daily News Briefing
Coeliac disease, also known as gluten enteropathy, is an immunological problem that affects people genetically predisposed to it. Times, Sunday Times
The latter three register as defensible, legitimate recordings, no matter how ill-disposed a given listener's attitude might be towards the genre.
Unlike Japan, consumers appear positively disposed to these changes as restructuring has increased productivity along with lower unemployment and higher real wages.
His first care was to obtain some refreshment, which was more cheerfully afforded him by a good-natured pantler than by Dryfesdale, who was, on this occasion, much disposed to abide by the fashion of The Abbot
Most of them were probably indisposed right now anyway but I knew I had to get out of here.
Because of conditions in the mine, miners are predisposed to lung disease.
Such an overwhelming catastrophe would certainly aggrieve the French, for they are a kindly-disposed nation. Military Welcoming Parade | ultraorange.net
You should also keep in mind that some Claimants may be more disposed to attend their GP or take time off work than others, even with similar symptoms.
The goods were redisposed at a great loss
Mithraism, an established but exclusive sect devoted to social justice, was assimilated by state-sponsored Christianity before being disposed of in name.
For heads that are disposed unto Schism and complexionally propense to innovation, are naturally indisposed for a community, nor will be ever confined unto the order or oeconomy of one body; and therefore, when they separate from others, they knit but loosely among themselves; nor contented with a general breach or dichotomy with their Church do subdivide and mince themselves almost into Atoms. Religio Medici
The on-call Explosive Ordnance Disposal (bomb-disposal) diver was CPO Diver Andy Carss, who had earlier that day safely disposed of a phosphorous flare found on a beach in Norfolk - one of six such incidents this week.
well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States
The simple truth has to be told: how he loved his country, and for another and a broader love, growing out of his first passion, fought it; and being small by comparison, and finding no giant of the Philistines disposed to receive a stone in his fore-skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic. Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1
The anxieties of a society traditionally ill-disposed to taxation in general and new forms of taxation in particular made the task of the Treasury and the Committee of Ways and Means increasingly harrowing.
Our enemies were caught unprepared and we disposed of them without firing a single shot.
The inscriptions, instead of being grouped wherever there happened to be space, and so producing the richest form of wall-decoration ever devised by man, are disposed in symmetrical columns, the effect of which, when compared with the florid style of Karnak, is as the methodical neatness of an engrossed deed to the splendid freedom of an illuminated manuscript. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
Having disposed of his family farm he acquired a new home at Lissard where he and his wife were contented and happy.
If he come to see me" (as it has always been reckoned a piece of neighbourly kindness to visit the sick) "he speaks vanity; that is, he pretends friendship, and that his errand is to mourn with me and to comfort me; he tells me he is very sorry to see me so much indisposed, and wishes me my health; but it is all flattery and falsehood. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
G. Do you have a sample retain system Areretains retrievable? How are retains disposed of?
A weak constitution disposed her to frequent illness.
The stink is loathsome and high where wasted rubbish gets disposed off uncaringly in an open public place.
When I say _Socrates is mortal_, the moment _Socrates_ is incomplete; it falls forward through the _is_ which is pure movement, into the _mortal_ which is indeed bare mortal on the tongue, but for the mind is _that mortal_, the _mortal Socrates_, at last satisfactorily disposed of and told off. [ A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
But the groups had drawn together into one, and were watching a child who, solitary upon the grass-plot, paced through a measure before them 'high and disposedly.' Brother Copas
The ruddy syenite is dyked and veined by the familiar network of green-black porphyritic trap; the filons are disposed in parallels striking north-south, with a little easting; the dip is westerly (about 35 degrees mag.), and the thickness extends to hundreds of feet, often forming a foundation for the upper cliff. The Land of Midian
Nickel Cadmium cells are better, but still lack capacity and pollute unless disposed of properly.
But as we know, both profits and prophets in our own country are liable to be dishonoured, however well disposed.
Having disposed of her body he then waited five days to report her disappearance to the police. Times, Sunday Times
In many places basalt in piles and crumbling strata of hornblende schiste, disposed edgeways, green within, and without blackened by sun and rain, cropped out of the ground. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Large sections of the potential audience seemed indisposed to attend.
At this time his work was purely abstract, featuring geometrically disposed bars and rectangles in a style close to Mondrian and van Doesburg.
The president is predisposed towards negotiation and favours a peaceful way of resolving the crisis.
Zwelithini, who was expected to be present to meet the new provincial cabinet was "indisposed" and could not attend the meeting. ANC Daily News Briefing
On every mattress they had disposed a rug of skin fit for a King and edged with a fringe of gold; and a-middlemost the shop stood a third seat still richer, even as the place required. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Good intentions go a long way with me, so I tend to be favorably disposed towards holiday specials.
So only a partner who was disposed to keep promises even in cases where doing so wouldn't maximize his utility (i.e., a non-foolish promiser) could be relied upon to do his part in a prisoner's dilemma scenario, and thus only those sorts of promisers could reach the agreements that constitute these solutions. Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych
Both proteins are disposed as strings of beads arranged along long pitch longitudinal helices, but the strings of beads for the two proteins are on separate stripes of membrane.
Little as Mavis was disposed to find harbourage for herself and little one in the unhomely places she inspected, she was hurt by the refusals encountered. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl
So the radical fringe on the left, following the Alinsky playbook and in an effort to continue to move our equally free country in the direction of the equally miserable, disposed of the term reparations, along with it's negative connotations, in favor of a much more common and already accepted term, "justice. All articles at Blogcritics
But the wound should be made to suppurate as quickly as possible; for, thus the parts surrounding the wound would be the least disposed to inflammation, and would become the soonest clean; for the flesh which has been chopped and bruised by the blow, must necessarily suppurate and slough away. On Injuries Of The Head
He had not been well for some time before, but whether he really felt as indisposed on this occasion as he affirmed is open to doubt. My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny
But new research has shown that we are predisposed to err in selecting who to live with.
The other way in which a disposition to help can evolve requires that episodes of helping behavior are part of a longer term reciprocal strategy in which the organism that is the beneficiary of helping behavior is disposed to help its benefactor on some subsequent occasion. Hanging
Latin American pastors in the meeting at Puebla, that in the ability to live together, "... all human beings hold the common good as fundamental, consistent with the ever more fraternal realization of common dignity which does not use some persons as tools for the benefit of others, and that all be disposed to sacrifice for some particular good ends". Adolfo Pérez Esquivel - Nobel Lecture
She gave me a saucy answer, as I was disposed to think it, because I had just then a twinge, that I could scarce bear; for pain is a plaguy thing to a man of my lively spirits. Pamela
His wife, on the one side, in her pearlings and pudding-sleeves, put the last finishing touch to her holiday's apparel, while she contemplated a very handsome and good-humoured face in a broken mirror, raised upon the "bink" (the shelves on which the plates are disposed) for her special accommodation. The Bride of Lammermoor
the dots are unevenly disposed
He disposed of his rival claimants, and quelled various rebellions that the succession crisis had spawned.
I'll write, Eddie, oh, in a few days, and tell you all about my new home," she called gayly, as Frank, having disposed of her trunk in the back of the wagon, lifted her in. The Land of Promise
I ask you, do you think, as honest men anxious for the public tranquility, conscious that there are wounds not yet completely cicatrized, that you ought to speak this language at this time to men who are very much disposed to think that, in this very emancipation, they have been saved from their own Parliament by the humanity of their own sovereign? Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
But the government said it was "disposed" to participate in the summit, and a source close to the presidency did not rule out that ANC Daily News Briefing
She has a headache and is rather indisposed.
A case of beer, a case of wine, and six bottles of Wild Turkey were disposed of in merciless fashion.
Sin could be repented of by an act of volition; failure could not be disposed of so easily.
The boss was ill disposed towards his secretary.
His ideas were bigoted and hateful, and the tactic of killing civilians is despicable (I'm not favorably disposed in general toward killing anyone at all if it can be avoided).
Mr. Dempster was not disposed to encourage her confidence; her strange inquiries about people he had been greatly interested in, recalled the seance which had so much startled Francis Hogarth, and he suspected that this must be the person who had written the letter the spirit had been questioned about, and, consequently, that she was Hogarth's mother; no mother, certainly, to be proud of! Mr. Hogarth's Will
Princes Metternich and Hardenberg were favorably disposed toward Jewish rights. Emancipation
Of the remaining long list of figures, the Irish are particularly disposed to the epizeuxis, as 'indeed, indeed -- at all, at all,' and antanaclasis, or double meaning. Tales and Novels — Volume 04
She seems favourably disposed to the move.
In a second position of the valve stem, the amount of aerosol disposed in the metering chamber is released.
This leaves those mentioned with a warm glow, and also well disposed towards him. Times, Sunday Times
He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion.
Most of the audience seemed ill-disposed towards the speaker.
The pavement, which is level with the ground, is composed of slabs of fine and various coloured marbles, mostly, however, white, disposed chequerwise. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality.
His lifestyle predisposed him to high blood pressure.
And also, of course, making people much less well disposed to it. Times, Sunday Times
He disposed of the knife and the fleece jacket that he had worn. Times, Sunday Times
The Residuary Body would be wound up after three years and the levy was supposed to be reduced annually as properties were disposed of.
The quarry produces stones of considerable size which are easily detached, the strata being regularly disposed one above the other.
Howard watched the last trickle of water drain away, and, congratulating himself on a job well done, disposed of his home made unblocker in the flip-top bin by the back door.
Nor did he put the figures on display in a frontally disposed arrangement.
Tea Party marchers, however, acted with an air of constipation, arrogance, intolerant and predisposed to lying, fearmongoring, intimidation, and completely brainwashed from the faux news channel. Flashback to Obama campaign
On the eastern front in WW II enemy dead were disposed of without ceremony and enemy cemeteries desecrated.
Where Mozart uses divided violas at the opening, he applauds ‘the care with which the harmony is disposed so as to avoid doubling the notes of the theme in the violins’.
Both adverse and favourably disposed critics generally agree that Basic has three weaknesses.
In addition to several reverses, there was the particularly worrying question of Japan, a country ill-disposed to the Allied powers.

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