How To Use Incline In A Sentence

  • I am inclined to think, old boy, that there is a good deal of what they call the chump about me. Old Ebenezer
  • It has both a vertical shaft and an adit to an incline, which we and several mine officials entered in a small bus.
  • The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, tantalizing him with its nearness.
  • After a time, however, they began to think that he was what they called too “viewy,” too much inclined to paradox, too wild. The Adventure of Living
  • We only walked for four hours today because of the intense heat and steep incline. The Sun
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  • If it has attractive art and nice looking parts I'm much more inclined to give it a try.
  • He's inclined to spit when he talks quickly.
  • But the slave, perceiving that the zamorin seemed inclined to deal favourably with them, went to the cady or chief priest of the Mahometans, and told him all that he had said to the zamorin, adding that the two Christians had disclosed all their secrets to the Portuguese. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
  • The finely detailed, louvred, inclined plane presenting an alternative to the typical suburban facades. NSW Architecture Awards Announced: Gorgeous Oz-chitecture | Inhabitat
  • He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
  • They also have acquired a ‘natural moral sense’ that inclines them to perform the social duties required for the species to flourish.
  • The twelfth, _bayoguin_, signified a "cotquean," a man whose nature inclined toward that of a woman. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • In manner he was a dapper ironist, soft-voiced and accepting of the curious turns that fate was inclined to take. We Shall Not See His Like Again
  • To anyone inclined to political cynicism, I would urge you to read this book. Times, Sunday Times
  • After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics.
  • Results indicated that most respondents were more inclined towards centrally planned economic policies rather than free markets.
  • At the vertex is a medical student named Karlanner (played by Stephen Barker Turner), a kind of emblematic conflicted "good German" - leftishly inclined, living with the Jewish girlfriend who rescued him from alcoholism. A Lost Voice Surfaces From A Sinister Interlude
  • Mystra was flush with anticipation as they dismounted, leading their horses up the steady incline of the road.
  • Now, as for those in our church who contend for the ceremonies, many of them are led by such _argumenta inartificialia_, as wealth, preferment, &c., and if conscience be at all looked to by them, yet they only throw and extort an assent and allowance from it, when worldly respects have made them to propend and incline to an anterior liking of the ceremonies. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
  • The front garden slopes away from the house, with the incline packed with an interesting array of shrubbery and tall flowers - white flowering eucryphia and myrtle blend with statuesque hoheriay and elegant miscanthus grasses.
  • Ideally, the drainpipe is sloped or inclined approximately 2% or ¼ inch per foot of length, to keep the waste in the pipe, wet and amid liquid to lubricate and promote its slow but constant movement along the length of the pipe. Toilet Paper and Mexican Plumbing
  • I am inclined to agree with Sanders that the Federal Reserve showed poor leadership as the economic mess we're in unfolded, But I think Greenspan is much more to blame for the whole mess than Bernanke. Early fireworks in Bernanke confirmation drama
  • When a company's business is down , it's inclined to sit tight.
  • Roo suspected it was a lie, as Duncan was inclined to aggrandize his own discomfort and diminish others ', but he didn't mind. RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
  • It will not use the relief road unless it is going to the new industrial estate and people may be tempted to take a short cut through the town to avoid the steep incline on the new road.
  • O'Connor's sympathies are certainly with Federalism, and Ginsburg has become more inclined towards Federalism as of late.
  • Maybe the sheer joy of a stroll along a beach makes them more inclined to say yes. Times, Sunday Times
  • She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling. Chapter X
  • M. Faye, of the French Academy, inclined to a lunar origin for them; [193] Feilitsch of Greifswald published in 1852 a treatise for the express purpose of proving all the luminous phenomena attendant on solar eclipses -- corona, prominences and "sierra" -- to be purely optical appearances. [ A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
  • The King is at first inclined to agree with this principle and to mete out to the sororicide the punishment he deserves.
  • Cadeyrn inclined his head in acknowledgement.
  • For those more culturally inclined, there is a fairly good museum housed in a Japanese building from when Sakhalin Island was called Karafuto and Yuzhno was called Toyohara. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • It's not like we're making more money -- we're just collecting it to pass along to the state -- but from a customer's perspective, they just have to pay more when they buy from a physical store than from an online store, which can disincline some folks to buy local. Action Items for Booksellers & Others
  • And then what started to happen after about like two and a half months was, one of the guys was very gymnastically inclined. Brad Balfour: Q & A With Mickey Rourke--A Requiem Through The Wrestler
  • If biological temperament inclines you to be easily upset, that quite naturally leads to questions about ‘what's wrong with me?’
  • Their name, which he had long avoided mentioning, was incessantly on his lips: but always the same, always inclined naturally and systematically, to have more strings than one to his bow, he appeared to incline alternately _for the younger branch, and for the reigning branch_. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
  • So we are inclined to side with the powerless rather than the powerful.
  • White's allegorical space is a vacant sprawling composition, slanting and inclined in a rigid fixture devoid of primary colours or people.
  • Now the two tech icons are running neck and neck -- a reversal of fortune the bloggerati are inclined to ascribe to a combination of Steve Jobs 'genius and Microsoft's flatfootedness. Microsoft Slumps As Apple Trumps
  • In the light of this, one might be inclined to say that she is naïve or innocent or foolhardy.
  • From a vantage point of twenty feet away they all crouched, watching the car, which appeared disinclined to burst into flame. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
  • Commandos are inclined to shoot first and ask questions later.
  • I'd be inclined to avoid ragtops on general principle, and I also think that the floppy roof spoils the TT's outline.
  • The completed ships could easily slip into the water along the inclined shipways.
  • I was inclined to rekindle the fire, and once I had it going I sat cross-legged before it, gazing at Carter through the orange and yellow flames.
  • The word driveth does not mean that he was compelled forcibly against his will to go there, but that he was inclined to go there by the Spirit, or was led there. Barnes New Testament Notes
  • Furniture weighs suddenly turn hostile cozily : Furniture tide respect criterion incline to is muti_function with diversification.
  • Our results," as they both argued, "seem so far to indicate that the hydrogen nucleus is a more common constituent of the lighter atoms than one has hitherto been inclined to believe. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
  • The interrogating carbineer who is invested, during such preliminary enquiries, with quasi-judicial functions -- being permitted to assume the role of prosecuting or defending counsel, or to remain sternly unbiased, as he feels inclined -- desired to learn how he had come by this jewel. South Wind
  • People are more inclined to treat their animals rather than put them to sleep and replace them. Times, Sunday Times
  • His Lordship was inclined to think that it did. Times, Sunday Times
  • When push comes to shove, even those who recognize the political roots of drug testing are not inclined to take a stand.
  • The public walk directly into the new terminal's retail level from the parking area and can then connect to the departures and arrivals levels by using the inclined travelators.
  • A narrow inclined rift leads out to the head of the pitch, and a large wedged block provides an initial belay for a traverse at roof level to the first section of the pitch.
  • Danlo inclined his head toward the heaume that Hanuman was holding. THE BROKEN GOD
  • It has been now stated why superfoetation is not found in some animals at all, why it is found in others which sometimes bring the later embryos to birth and sometimes not, and why some such animals are inclined to sexual intercourse while others are not. On the Generation of Animals
  • The regulators themselves need to become more expert and less inclined to defer to the judgment of bankers. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm not a god-fearing man but I do at times incline towards the highest doctrines of the church.
  • As you probably know, Herr Sanders is a gentleman of advanced years, inclined to be a little vague.
  • The engine faltered on the very first incline, just outside the town. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
  • The telescope is inclined at an angle of 43 degrees.
  • Antonio and I looked closely at their wrappings and noted the way in which their mummied forms had been ranged before this idol -- that certainly belonged to a primitive time -- the more were we inclined to believe that this weird sepulchre belonged to the very far back past. The Aztec Treasure-House
  • The Witch didn't much care, but she wasn't inclined to accept a unilateral dictum without a retort. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • While pubescent males could find younger females to be on nearly the same developmental level as themselves, teenage females are not as inclined to regard younger, less developed males as sexual partners.
  • Some people seem hell-bent on misinterpreting you, even people you thought weren't inclined to having jerky knees.
  • The Frue vanner is an endless indiarubber band drawn over an inclined table, to which a revolving and side motion is given by ingenious automatic mechanism, the pulp being automatically fed from the upper end, and the concentrates collected in a trough containing water in which the band is immersed in its passage under the table; the lighter particles wash over the lower end. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
  • How much effort either the president or the Congress is inclined to put behind the rhetoric is an open question.
  • It was Pat Buchanan who first used the term cultural war to assure the religiously inclined that the opposition - liberals and Democrats - are evil: There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. Bush is on a Mission from God
  • Putting all these facts together, I am inclined to think that "arrish" must first mean "land for tillage;" and that the connexion of the word with Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • His answer is really a big No, and I would be inclined to agree.
  • Their language inclines us to believe them
  • Plates in equatorial positions on the theca are perpendicular to plate surfaces whereas plates near the stem attachment are inclined aborally and plates near the oral surface are inclined adorally.
  • Beyond the strip of level ground there is a ‘short steep preparatory slope’ (a one-in-three incline, as we later learn), slaty and with only the sparsest vegetation.
  • I see an elderly man gingerly making his way down the incline of his driveway. The Times Literary Supplement
  • We are, as the experts like to say with a horrified sense of wonder, aliterate - able to read, and read well, but disinclined to do so.
  • I think the court system today enables a parent who is inclined to be an alienator -- the court will allow that to happen. CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2008
  • There are subtle inclines and subtler downhill slopes.
  • The one horn of the study, inclined condole of a TV is in housetop, it is below result put symphonious noise, they were brought for nervous at ordinary times job a few relaxed.
  • Shakespeare has established that Mercutio is a rather dirty-minded young rogue, cynical about love and sex, and inclined to find ways to ridicule and embarrass everyone he deals with, including his best friends, when he thinks they're being foolish or self-destructive or pursuing pleasures that don't include Mercutio. Did Viola, Rosalind, and Portia wax?
  • Immediately he looks better balanced, less inclined to see everything in terms of the legside. Kevin Pietersen falls to familiar weapon on return for Surrey
  • I came across her blog recently when the google alert I have on my agent's name dinged, and I left her a comment a couple of posts back not feeling inclined to touch the one about life sucking, recommending she cool it, or at least protect her identity. Authors Behaving Badly?
  • Before then, we are inclined to believe only hip jazz musicians and self-destructive beat poets did dope.
  • However, lizards may alter their behavior on inclines of different slopes.
  • And if you have a housekeeper, you know once your housekeeper comes, you're probably not inclined to do heavy cleaning, maybe light housekeeping.
  • For example, I'll sit in the living room so I will be less inclined to sleep writing on my laptop until very late at night/early in the morning, until I'm so tired I'm wobbly-feeling, with the world kind of queasily moving in the manner of an egg yolk. MY BED IS A NEST OF PILLOWS
  • I'm inclined to agree with you.
  • You may not be inclined to agree, but points of view other than your own do have merit too.
  • The pilots tried various procedures to loosen the landing gear -- such as jimmying the control lever back and forth, trying the manual release, and G-moves, a series of steep inclines and declines to jostle it loose. Undefined
  • It tackled steep inclines, rocky surfaces, muddy tracks and sand dunes with aplomb and at no time did I feel it would bog down or fail to scale rocky obstacles.
  • The danger is it will be scaled up and still we won't care about the impact and so will be less inclined to listen to their message. Times, Sunday Times
  • His Lordship was inclined to think that it did. Times, Sunday Times
  • Following each triaxial test it was noticed that the low strength specimens, grades C and D, generally sheared along one smooth inclined plane of failure.
  • A hatchway between leads back into the forecastle, a tight and very silty space should you feel inclined to explore.
  • But he refused the will and the heart, and every time, when he was unable at the beginning to leap sideways out of the inclined trough, he fell grievously from the inside of the loop, bruising and injuring himself. CHAPTER XXVI
  • All in all, Chinese spring palace paintings are inclined to poetic imagination, yet western nudes commit themselves to veracious expression.
  • In going down a steep incline the rider must throw himself right back and hold in the horse with the bit, to prevent himself being hurled headforemost down the slope himself if not his horse. On Horsemanship
  • Alcoholics are inclined to suppose that their waywardness is the response of a sensitive soul to the imperfections of the world, and by their biliousness, turning their own small corner of it into a hell for others.
  • This week's emotionally intense, all or nothing energy inclines people towards radical solutions and massive rejigs rather than compromises or incremental steps.
  • I am inclined to be ill after eating fish.
  • The letter reads, in part, as follows: "You have written several times concerning the Sacramentarians, and you disadvise the Concord, even though they should incline towards Luther's opinion. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • We dropped down to a lower level were we encountered a hading (inclined from the vertical) fault plane which was rather awkward and tiring as we were walking at an angle!
  • I suspect that even fewer American men would be inclined to enter into polyandrous (one woman, many men) marriages.
  • The vocoder is an amazing instrument; There's an interesting background on the technology in this survey of milestones in electronic musical instruments, and the good folks at O'Reilly will even tell you how to make your own, if you're so inclined. The Death of Analog, AutoTune Edition - Anil Dash
  • The contest disproved the general belief that the youngsters of today were more inclined towards western music than classical.
  • She is inclined to wrap her flippers around their legs and give them an affectionate cuddle.
  • Reading such works, I am inclined to throw the egotistical nincompoops out the window - as this is frequently impossible, I content myself with throwing the relevant books across the room.
  • The said Cassekey also set up his abode in their tent; kept all his tribe away from the woman and child and aged man; kindled fires; caused, as a delicate attention, the only hog remaining on the wreck to be killed and brought to them for a midnight meal; and, in short, comported himself so hospitably, and with such kindly consideration toward the broad-brimmed Quaker, that we are inclined to account him the better-bred fellow of the two, in spite of his scant costume of horse-tail and belt of straw. Stories of Childhood
  • And after this sensational summer, the entire country would be inclined to agree with him.
  • The accident inclined him to reconsider his career.
  • If we take into calculation the imponderabilia, whose weight can only be guessed at, the scale is inclined slightly in favour of the Triple Germany and the Next War
  • Exercises such as flat and incline bench press, leg press, squats, shoulder presses, rows, inverted rows and lat pulldowns should be used by ectomorphs to gain strength.
  • They stood there, bodies inclined to the storm in the manner of seamen on sloped decks, unyieldingly looking into each other's eyes. CHAPTER 3
  • He'll also give you the main news headlines he picks up from various radio stations and if you feel so inclined, you can read the headlines from any one of the assorted newspapers lying in a pile near his feet.
  • I incline to accept the official version of events.
  • For these reasons, youth are less and less inclined to serve in the military.
  • I was more inclined to view it as a compliment. Times, Sunday Times
  • She writes that ‘Black artists such as Lois Mailou Jones, Palmer C. Hayden, and Henry O. Tanner were more inclined towards a conventional academicism, despite Paris's reputation for modernity’.
  • He inclined his head in approval. Anti-Ice
  • I myself incline to the minority view that science alone cannot assuage our craving for human contact.
  • If there is a good chance you could be gammoned, be more inclined to pass the double.
  • I'll be much less inclined to give you a open-hearted read if you've got an MFA than if you don't.
  • As promised, some mathematically inclined posts.
  • If you are a late payer or inclined to exceed your credit limit, Tusa does not impose any penalty charges and its standard rate is a competitive 17.5 per cent.
  • The Connemara ponies settled in and seemed surefooted in sharp, jumbled rocks, deep mud and steep angled inclines and declines.
  • I am inclined to think that the true melanosis generally occurs in the form of rounded tumours, which, when cut in two, present a uniform black colour without any trace of air-cells, while in the spurious melanosis the deposition is general, and black matter flows freely out when the cut surfaces are pressed. An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners
  • They'll be more inclined to listen if you don't shout.
  • It's such a fiercely unique movie, uncompromising in its visual excitement, that we're inclined to overlook the slightly dopey plot and shaky acting.
  • (Not to detract from the poster -- very cool, and I wish I had the spare computers to do it, I'm just disinclined to purchase one specifically for use in the kitchen .. at least, not in this shithole apartment) mgpcoe The Upside Down Mac | Lifehacker Australia
  • This stelliferous zone almost completely encircles the sphere, which it divides into two nearly equal parts, and is inclined at an angle of 63° to the celestial equator. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
  • He acted, indeed, as if he quite enjoyed it -- though he was careful not to show it too ardently: he had discovered that Mrs. Polly had for so long been Miss Polly that she was inclined to retreat in a panic and dub her ministrations "silly," if they were received with too much notice and eagerness. Pollyanna Grows Up
  • The gentry of a small country town could then afford to do with humble attainments in that line, and I am inclined to think the tradespeople were as a rule better informed. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
  • -- not too hilly/mountainous because walking long distances or up too many inclines is difficult Advice on retirement areas
  • If inclined to the characteristic excesses of the period (hard drinking, gambling, promiscuity), his view of the world depicted its manners, vices, politics, and incidents, but without censoriousness.
  • Of course he had his shortcomings like us all but these were mainly inclined to show up on the home front.
  • If you are outside, you can do walking lunges, squats, incline push-ups and tricep dips using a park bench, and heel raises off of a curb. LIVESTRONG.COM: 5 Ways to Walk Off Weight
  • They whom I live with are inclined towards postmodernism.
  • The results include anecdotal but compelling evidence that officers are already becoming less inclined to take the risks needed to prevail in battle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Given the nature of this matter, I am inclined to think it should be managed by you personally.
  • Some people are inclined to dismiss such questions as alarmist.
  • The medias revile the old fellow inclines to destroy the team Spain. The 68-years-old man is a dotard.
  • Not recognising the deeper motives of those commitments, pinning it all on wonder, is dangerous because it disinclines one to recognise those mechanisms at play in secular - isms like totalitarian ideologies or — most perilously of all, to my mind — scientistic rationalism. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
  • The pattern of proximal axes being more aborally inclined than are distal axes is similar to that in C axes of crinoid calyx plates.
  • He inclined towards the speaker to hear more clearly.
  • The more a man knows, the more he is inclined to be modest. 
  • He stands at the top of the incline beside the Canadian flag, grasping the rope and displaying great physical strength as well as moral fortitude.
  • He noticed Hunter and Brandon heading up a slight incline to the peak of a small mound, and chased after them.
  • You may also be inclined to switch because a number of providers are raising their charges. Times, Sunday Times
  • Conifers tend to grow up straight, while broadleaves are more inclined to fork or produce multiple leaders stems.
  • Well, first things first: to be honest, if she doesn't welcome fanfiction of her work, I'm inclined to think she can only be right about its ethical dubiety ... when it comes to fanfiction of her work, that is ... mostly. Fanfiction
  • One such hike led through meadows, down forest trails, and across slippery shoreline rocks all inclined in the same direction.
  • Could this disjointed style, this mixture of attention and indifference, which inclines you to take the picture piece by piece, have something to do with the clear sense of discrete personalities you get from it?
  • On this issue, I rather incline towards the Samizdata view.
  • He was yoked to an disinclined partner.
  • Luke inclined his head slightly in acknowledgement.
  • You might be more inclined towards a cooler plunge after a day's walking.
  • I am inclined to agree a campanula and could well be persicifolia looking at google. What Is This Plant? 2009*Now We Know! « Fairegarden
  • Certain of the directors were inclined to criticise other directors and to be somewhat dictatory as to how the farmers 'business should be conducted. Deep Furrows
  • Rather than stand in awe of his suppressed and frustrated creative forces I'm more inclined to tell him, sharply, to have a shower and a shave and put some clean clothes on, for goodness sake.
  • With a heart, then, inclined to believe what I have said to thee, attend, my son, to thy Cato here who would counsel thee and be thy polestar and guide to direct and pilot thee to a safe haven out of this stormy sea wherein thou art about to ingulf thyself; for offices and great trusts are nothing else but a mighty gulf of troubles. Don Quixote
  • Those who tried to delude the people into believing that this was the last war were either fools or knaves, and he inclined to think that there were more knaves than fools.
  • he was negatively inclined
  • All you need is an album, an instant camera, rolls of film and painting materials if you are that way inclined.
  • Men 18-34 are more inclined to look beyond buying just a fragrance and aftershave; they're moving on to line extensions.
  • Large wooden columns define both Surrey and Arena, and the inclined glass wall that links the Chan to its forest glen is also repurposed in Thom's Washington design. Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
  • Understandably, I have some reservations about getting drunk with my passport and visa with me, so I am disinclined to take them.
  • Plus, with the varying speeds and incline settings, anyone can use it, and it never becomes obsolete.
  • For my part, therefore, I am inclined to see features of both monosemy and polysemy in a word's semantic structure.
  • She had previously assured herself that my hair was all my own, and now my coiffure was the only part of my toilet that come in for her unqualified approval, for Charlie had made the most of my abundant hair, which was of a beautiful color and texture and inclined to curl. Madeleine An Autobiography
  • It's also great for lifting mood, making us less inclined to comfort eat. Times, Sunday Times
  • The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley 
  • Scientists and lab analysts are inclined to see what they expect to see, to support what they have been told they would see, and to conclude that their results are scientifically valid and therefore infallible.
  • Between the outcrop and me was a thick snow bank, and this was very steeply inclined.
  • The Russian government, being despotic, is naturally inclined to be suspicious, and it has long been the custom to send off persons supposed to be dangerous to the state, to live in the intensely cold and remote district of Siberia. A Book of Golden Deeds
  • At times like this the back row inclined to craven panic.
  • In a gliding dive inclined at an angle to the horizontal the bird must keep the wings partly open to provide the lift needed to maintain a constant glide angle.
  • As a chronic crowd avoider, I was fairly inclined to that camp.
  • And there can hardly be a married woman alive who hasn't, many times, felt inclined to duff up her husband, if not actually to wring his neck.
  • Many inclines around the country boast some type of superlative; this one says they are the steepest, and rightly so.
  • If we measured our age in days would we be less inclined to squander our lives? Times, Sunday Times
  • Well, for those of you not auditorily inclined, Wendy Delmater of Abyss & Apex has transcribed the recording and published it in the latest issue of A&A. John Joseph Adams » 2007 » April
  • Or is that just a bit of PR to make us more inclined to support those deep packet inspection probes? Times, Sunday Times
  • An extravagant amount of baksheesh removed any doubts they may have had, nor would they be inclined to question the command of an effendi. LION IN THE VALLEY
  • Branson inclined his head slightly in a bow, and Angelie curtsied again.
  • The partly deaf man inclined forward to hear the conversation more clearly.
  • As a general rule I should almost be inclined to say that the finer the color of the thallus of any given lichen, the more is that lichen to be suspected of poverty in valuable coloring matters; and that, on the other hand, the palest pulverulent or crustaceous species, especially such as are saxicolous, may be expected to yield the most beautiful and valuable pigments (_e. g._ the Rocellas and The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • Even among those not ideologically inclined towards communism there were some who were so disenchanted with the past that they regarded the communists as representing modernity and a better future.
  • After a period of voluntary unemployment he finds work at Aldermaston, hobnobbing with geniuses who could blow up the world if they felt so inclined.
  • It's also unsurprising that after the nightmare of the first world war, so many people around the world were inclined, in an era of modernism, to imagine peace in universalist terms.
  • Is fond of his friends," continued the Professor, "and the heartier they are the better; might even be convivially inclined -- if so tempted -- but prudent -- in a degree," loiteringly concluded the speaker, as though unable to find the exact bump with which to bolster up the last named attribute. The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10
  • But to deify Orwell, as many disciples were inclined to do, does him an injustice.
  • A night's lodging cost five dollars for supper, five for breakfast, and five for a bed, and if the soldiers were any ways bibulously inclined and wished an "eye opener" in the morning or a "night cap" at supper time, that was five dollars additional for each drink. History of Kershaw's Brigade
  • So I am not inclined to spend Labor Day weekend as a risk arbitrager, worrying about the twists in either the Potash or 3PAR deals. In Merger Frenzy, Less-Obvious Stocks Could Pay Off
  • They tend to be well informed and access data efficiently, they are mindful of special interests, distrustful of governments and disinclined to defer to the opinion of experts who they do not hold in any special awe.
  • If this perspective on the conflict is right one of the major problems is the lack of mutual understanding between those inclined to traditionalism and those inclined towards humanism.
  • If that's what you're looking for, then in most cases you will probably already be inclined to play the role ‘the rules’ prescribes, or if not, at least when you read it, you think, aha, yes, that makes sense.
  • Jealousy is reputed to be one of their worst faults, but Taureans are no more inclined to jealousy than any of the other signs.
  • In addition, he is generally inclined to share the classical republicans' basic understanding of both virtue and inner freedom in terms of the rational element's rule over the appetitive, passionate element.
  • Frankly, I'm more inclined to find the former more contrived, since a remorseless thug and repenting Christian is a believable dyad.
  • She was inclined to trust him.
  • The defendant made a similar lintel but with a rear face inclined at 6 degrees from the vertical.

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