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Sentences ending with disposition
- Even after three years of more or less intimacy between us, Farrar still wore his exterior of pessimism and indifference, the shell with which he chose to hide a naturally warm and affectionate disposition. [9]
- On enquiry he would find that they were adapted to live under widely different climates, and that they differed somewhat in bodily constitution and mental disposition. [1]
- The leader set this down to the natural uncertainty of Pierre's disposition. [11]
- He delighted to think that even the lower animals had improved, both in appearance and disposition. [4]
- They differed from them in speech, dress, and disposition. [2]
- In order that primeval men, or the ape-like progenitors of man, should become social, they must have acquired the same instinctive feelings, which impel other animals to live in a body; and they no doubt exhibited the same general disposition. [1]
- To the hour of its coming he had been of shrewd and humourous disposition. [11]
- And as usual nothing happened in accord with the disposition. [2]
- February, however, is merely an illustration of the effect of weather upon the disposition. [4]
- This indicated the man's disposition. [5]
Sentences containing disposition two or more times
- But there is one thing I feel no disposition to overlook, and no disposition to forget: and that is, the honest gratitude I and all pilgrims owe, to the Convent Fathers in Palestine. [5]
- We should be obliged to note also, among scientific men themselves, a disposition to come to conclusions on inadequate evidence--a disposition usually due to one-sided education which lacks metaphysical training and the philosophic habit. [4]
More example sentences with the word disposition in them
- To high moral worth and irreproachable habits were joined gentleness of manner, an ingenuous disposition, and vigor of understanding. [4]
- He has a wonderful disposition, has George. [11]
- The arduous task which she had performed a short time before for her widowed sister had increased the seriousness of her disposition to sullen moroseness. [10]
- His temper--his disposition, what is it? [11]
- I noticed, however, what I should call a palpebral spasm, affecting the eyelid and muscles of one side, which, if it were intended for the facial gesture called a wink, might lead me to suspect a disposition to be satirical on his part. [6]
- And even if we had the disposition to name them, in order to fill up a gap when we were short of ideas and arguments, our magazines would not allow us to do it, because they think that such words sully their pages. [5]
- What she thought was that in manner and disposition he was totally unlike Jack Delancy. [4]
- Yet that man was so heedless as not to reflect that all the social customs of civilised peoples are entitled to respectful observance, and that no man with a right spirit of courtesy in him ever has any disposition to transgress these customs. [5]
- After this it was perfectly quiet, and brought a measure of corn to the man-tamer, without showing the least disposition to strike with the feet or hit from the shoulder. [6]
- My sister's disposition was not naturally gregarious: circumstances favoured and fostered her tendency to seclusion; except to go to church, or take a walk on the hills, she rarely crossed the threshold of home. [14]
- Of course there was a great variety of comment, its character depending very much on the sense, knowledge, and disposition of the citizens, gossips, and young people who talked over the painful and mysterious occurrence. [6]
- He heard a voice, now, and felt a disposition to run and hide; but he changed his mind at once, for this voice was praying, evidently. [5]
- A liberal disposition toward this great national policy is manifested by most of the European States, and ought to be reciprocated on our part by giving the immigrants effective national protection. [7]
- He went uninjured, too--I had the murderous impulse to harpoon him in the back with my alpenstock, but as I raised the weapon the disposition left me; I found I hadn't the heart to kill him, he was such a joyous, innocent, good-natured numbskull. [5]
- There may be too much disposition to condone the crimes of those who have been considered respectable. [4]
- The old woman told the whole story of Elsie, of her birth, of her peculiarities of person and disposition, of the passionate fears and hopes with which her father had watched the course of her development. [6]
- Hailing these little tokens of the bachelor's disposition as so many assurances of his own welcome course from that time, the schoolmaster parted from him with a light heart and joyous spirits, and deemed himself one of the happiest men on earth. [12]
- Is it nothing to show a disposition to sift things and bring people to a strict account? [5]
- Nobody had promised to say masses for her soul if she made this disposition of her property, or pledged the word of the Church that she should have plenary absolution. [6]
- What had he to do with this strange disposition of events? [11]
- It is justifiable to do this; for why should I let my small infirmities of disposition live and grovel among my mental pictures of the eternal sublimities of the Alps? [5]
- When the order to destroy the statues of Antony and Cleopatra was issued, Octavianus gave his contemporaries another proof of his disposition to be lenient, for he ordered that the numerous statues of the Queen in Alexandria and Egypt should be preserved. [10]
- It is impossible to come before a public so alive with sensibilities as this we live in, with the smallest evidence of a sympathetic disposition, without making friends in a very unexpected way. [6]
- I beg you to believe that I do not now refuse to address you from any disposition to disoblige you, but to the contrary. [7]
- The subject of this memoir was of a vicious disposition, and early prostituted his talents to the invention of maxims and aphorisms calculated to inflict suffering upon the rising generation of all subsequent ages. [5]
- The ringleader of this little mob was a short-haired bully and amateur prize-fighter named Allen, who was accustomed to lording it over the upper floor, and had more than once shown a disposition to make trouble with Tracy. [5]
- Melchior now put this apartment at the disposition of the old couple. [10]
- He could not think so, but Gaston had not shown yet, either for model, for daughter of joy, or for the mademoiselles of the stage any disposition to an amour or a misalliance; and either would be interesting and sufficient! [11]
- As soon as they show any disposition to refuse to the old gods the respect that is due to them, or to raise a finger against them, severity must be exercised and every excess must be punished by death. [10]
- But one of the village people had a large Newfoundland dog, of a very sociable disposition, with which he determined to test the question. [6]
- As soon as the 'Susie' reached Troy, she was turned over to General York, and placed at his disposition to carry out the work of relief more rapidly. [5]
- I could see the plainest disposition on the part of the other members of the government to debar me from having any voice in the counsels of the nation, and so I could no longer hold office and retain my self-respect. [5]
- All this, like the other parts of the disposition, was not and could not be executed. [2]
- This disposition on the left flank increased Pierre's doubt of his own capacity to understand military matters. [2]
- But she had the incomprehensible feminine satisfaction of knowing, as they walked homeward, that the usual serenity of his disposition was slightly ruffled. [9]
- It happened because the disposition was lacking. [5]
- The opportunity and the disposition to labor make the basis of all our civilization. [4]
- But I know that, however your jesting tongue sins against me, it has nothing to do with your disposition, whose kindness has ever been proved when the occasion offered. [10]
- But I reckoned that with her disposition she was having a better time in the graveyard. [5]
- The truth is that the persons of that buoyant disposition which comes always heralded by a smile, as a yacht driven by a favoring breeze carries a wreath of sparkling foam before her, are born with their happiness ready made. [6]
- I am afraid that a lightsome disposition and a relish for humor are not so common in those whose benevolence takes an active turn as in people of sentiment, who are always ready with their tears and abounding in passionate expressions of sympathy. [6]
- Prince Andrew's last stay at Bogucharovo, when he introduced hospitals and schools and reduced the quitrent the peasants had to pay, had not softened their disposition but had on the contrary strengthened in them the traits of character the old prince called boorishness. [2]
- Delight in brilliant spectacles was doubtless natural to her disposition, and as Pyramus not only loved but esteemed her, it was repugnant to his feelings to watch her. [10]
- Still, her brave soul bore her up, and she resolved to bear with her friend's unnatural disposition yet a little longer. [5]
- This disposition to smoke, and idle and talk, was not well. [5]
- His affectionate disposition shows itself very sweetly in these touching mementos of a love of which his first great sorrow was so soon to be born. [6]
- He asked Dyck several questions concerning the possible fighting, the disposition of ammunition and all that, and said at last: "I think we shall be of use, sir. [11]
- Here, then, is seen her disposition, beautifully arrayed. [5]
- Here were no scenes but summer scenes, and no disposition inspired by them but to lie at full length on the mail sacks in the grateful breeze and dreamily smoke the pipe of peace--what other, where all was repose and contentment? [5]
- Prince Andrew, without replying, asked the prince's permission to ride round the position to see the disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent to execute an order. [2]
- The Mississippi is remarkable in still another way--its disposition to make prodigious jumps by cutting through narrow necks of land, and thus straightening and shortening itself. [5]
- Logically, Youth has re-equipped him for sin and with the disposition to commit it; he will naturally go to the fane which is consecrated to the Fulfillment of Desires, and make arrangements. [5]
- No one can read understandingly the life of Cowper and that of Carlyle without having some idea of the influence of hypochondriasis and of dyspepsia upon the disposition and intellect of the subjects of these maladies. [6]
- But that didn't prove that he hadn't material in him for the disposition, it only proved that he wasn't a typewriter copyist yet. [5]
- He is a proud, high-tempered Englishman, of good but not extraordinary parts; stubborn and punctilious, with a disposition to be overbearing, which I have often been compelled to check in its own way. [6]
- She had many privations and sufferings to undergo at first, but her worth and her gentle disposition won influential friends for her, and she built up a wealthy and flourishing nunnery. [5]
- Now I have plenty of money and a disposition to squander it, but I can't. [5]
- It affords me pleasure to confirm the confidence you so generously express in the friendly disposition of the United States, through me, towards the sovereigns and governments you respectively represent. [7]
- Her outward circumstances pleased him, as well as her disposition and person. [10]
- I saw the others in Ballarat myself, forty-five years later--what were left of them by time and death and the disposition to rove. [5]
- We understand each other and he is the only man on whose disposition I can build, on whose fidelity I can count as securely as if he were my favorite son. [10]
- His interests were often opposed to those of the Council and, kindly as was his disposition, disputes concerning many questions of law were constantly occurring between him and the Honourables. [10]
- Mr. Prescott, instead of treating the matter as an interference, earnestly encouraged Mr. Motley to go on, and placed at his disposition such of the books in his library as could be most useful to him. [6]
- Will the disposition of the people prevent it? [7]
- So not one of the orders in the disposition was, or could be, executed. [2]
- I am glad of the disposition he has shown to rescue them from the evils of poverty, and if they are still in London, I hope to have a talk with them. [5]
- The friendly disposition of the birds seemed most to impress the writer of the "True Declaration of Virginia. [4]
- The high standard of our intellectual powers and moral disposition is the greatest difficulty which presents itself, after we have been driven to this conclusion on the origin of man. [1]
- I cannot think of half the places we went to or what we particularly saw; we had no disposition to examine carefully into anything at all--we only wanted to glance and go--to move, keep moving! [5]
- But most painful of all to the volunteer nurse was the sick man's manner; for though Herr Casper rarely regained perfect consciousness, he showed his unfriendly disposition often enough by glances, gestures, and words stammered with painful effort. [10]
- An oyster is of a retiring disposition, and not lively--not even cheerful above the average, and never enterprising. [5]
- I have not now, and never have had, any disposition to treat you in any respect otherwise than as my own neighbors. [7]
- And had he noticed a little disposition to patronize on two or three occasions? [4]
- With every disposition, not merely to do justice, but to oblige you, I feel constrained to say I think the publications better not be made now. [7]
- However, there was no disposition to let the matter rest here and acknowledge vanquishment at the hands of the village of Austin. [5]
- He had absolutely no bad habits, and his disposition was perfect. [4]
- I am by nature and disposition unfitted for it and I want to get out of it. [5]
- One of the mournfulest calamities which men's disposition to climb dangerous mountains has resulted in, happened on Mont Blanc in September 1870. [5]
- Influenced by a most benevolent disposition, she brought these Tractors and the pamphlet with her to Europe, with a laudable desire of extending their utility to her suffering countrymen. [6]
- If he had money he would share with me in a moment and I have no disposition to be stingy with him. [5]
- Whatever faults of mind or disposition or character were his-- or hers--there were no sins against the pledges they had made, nor the bond into which they had entered. [11]
- I do not mind Bedouins,--I am not afraid of them; because neither Bedouins nor ordinary Arabs have shown any disposition to harm us, but I do feel afraid of my own comrades. [5]
- To me, the military problems of the situation are of more interest than the political ones, because by disposition I have always been especially fond of war. [5]
- Such a course might have prevented the expressions of regret, which have often been heard since, from different individuals, on account of the disposition they made of their votes. [7]
- She had never met a more contented soul or a franker disposition, and she could well understand how much it must fret and gall such a man to live on,--day after day, appearing, in one respect at any rate, different from what he really was. [10]
- The untamed disposition manifested itself in greater enormities as she grew older. [6]
- He is a man of loving disposition, of great knowledge, of power to win men, of deep ideas, of large courage. [11]
- Sometimes a man's make and disposition are such that his misery-machine is able to do nearly all the business. [5]
- He mapped out Luigi's character and disposition, his tastes, aversions, proclivities, ambitions, and eccentricities in a way which sometimes made Luigi wince and the others laugh, but both twins declared that the chart was artistically drawn and was correct. [5]
- I do not know; I have not had any disposition to try it, before. [5]
- Dr. Wilson very kindly furnished me all the information in his power, gave me directions for telegraphing to Chambersburg, and showed every disposition to serve me. [6]
- The man born kind and compassionate can have that disposition crushed down out of sight by embittering experience; but if it were an organ the post-mortem would find it still in his corpse. [5]
- What sad prominence it gives to our human disposition to tyrannize over the weak! [5]
- He had concealed it even from his father and his brother Labaja, who was still keeping watch on the ships, for he had a reserved disposition, and though obliged to obey his father, wherever it was possible he pursued his own way. [10]
- No; for it is reform by force and has no virtue in it; it merely stops that form of lying, it doesn't impair the disposition to lie, by a shade. [5]
- The only question is about keeping down the weeds; and I have learned by experience, that we need new sorts of hoes, and more disposition to use them. [4]
- We recognize this in a general way, but the relation of temper and disposition to the weather has never been scientifically studied. [4]
- He adds that if Taugwalder had had the disposition to cut the rope, he would not have had time to do it, the accident was so sudden and unexpected. [5]
- He argued, that, if a person inherited a perfect mind, body, and disposition, and had perfect teaching from infancy, that person could do nothing more than keep the moral law perfectly. [6]
- He was not idle or lazy, he had energy and a disposition to carve his own way. [5]
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