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"So far as appearance goes," he said, "you are what I want." Ashe felt inclined to bow. "Whoever takes on this job has got to act as my valet, and you look like a valet." Ashe felt less inclined to bow. "You're tall and thin and ordinary-looking. Yes; so far as appearance goes, you fill the bill." It seemed to Ashe that it was time to correct an impression the little man appeared to have formed.
If only the course of the trial enables me with an honest heart to throw myself into your crusade of mercy, with what joy shall I come and ask you to lead me, and to forgive my own slower sense and pity! "I should like you to know that Hallin is very much inclined to agree with you, to think that the whole affair was a 'scrimmage, and that Hurd at least ought to be reprieved.
The boys were inclined to think that the brindle had taken that course during the afternoon and had actually gone astray, something which a quadruped is less likely to do than a biped, though the former will sometimes make the blunder. There was nothing unreasonable in the theory that the bell had fallen from her neck and that the owner therefore might be not far away.
Sophy only wanted her folk to know she was now Mistress Braelands, and she had picked her out to carry the news good or bad news, none yet could say. Janet was not inclined to discuss the matter with her.
Everyone, moreover, is inclined by nature to embrace such teaching, and once he has done so he no longer thinks about the state of his life. This is why it is not known that shunning evils as sins is the Christian religion itself. That this is unknown was disclosed to me in the spiritual world.
To the surprise of the petitioners, who had reason to suppose him well inclined, he replied adversely.
We ourselves are inclined to charge this upon two causes; first, that the times were controversial and usually it happens that, where too much energy is carried into the controversies or intellectual part of religion, a very diminished fervour attends the culture of its moral and practical part.
'You will allow there was nothing for it after this but paying honest Joe Hodges's bill and departing, unless I had preferred making him my confidant, for which I felt in no way inclined. Besides, I learned that our ci-devant Colonel was on full retreat for Scotland, carrying off poor Julia along with him.
Sir Henry Clinton, therefore, resolved to take the road to Sandy Hook by which the Raritan would be altogether avoided. Although a great majority in the American council of war were averse to fighting, yet Washington was strongly inclined to attack the British army.
"Why," asked Collier, "should the man laugh at the mischief of the boy, and make the disorders of his nonage his own, by an after approbation?" Congreve was not Collier's only opponent. Vanbrugh, Dennis, and Settle took the field. And from a passage in a contemporary satire, we are inclined to think that among the answers to the Short View was one written, or supposed to be written, by Wycherley.