All 16 Uses of
inclined
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Casually glancing over the hedge, Oak saw coming down the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon, painted yellow and gaily marked, drawn by two horses, a waggoner walking alongside bearing a whip perpendicularly.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- The young woman, whose eyelids were apparently inclined to fall together on the smallest provocation of silence, yawned without parting her lips to any inconvenient extent, whereupon Gabriel caught the infection and slightly yawned in sympathy.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- "It is mine," said she, and, from a sense of proportion, kept down to a small smile an inclination to laugh distinctly: "it flew away last night."†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- He used, too, to hold the money-plate at Let Your Light so Shine, and stand godfather to poor little come-by-chance children; and he kept a missionary box upon his table to nab folks unawares when they called; yes, and he would box the charity-boys' ears, if they laughed in church, till they could hardly stand upright, and do other deeds of piety natural to the saintly inclined."†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- "Incline the edge so," he said.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- Hands and shears were inclined to suit the words, and held thus for a peculiarly long time by the instructor as he spoke.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- And even, Miss Everdene, if you seriously inclined towards him, you might have let him find it out in some way of true loving-kindness, and not by sending him a valentine's letter."†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- She was standing behind a low arm-chair, from which she had just risen, and he was kneeling in it—inclining himself over its back towards her, and holding her hand in both his own.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- Before he worried you your inclination was to have me; when next I should have come to you your answer would have been Yes.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- One Saturday evening in the month of October Bathsheba's vehicle was duly creeping up this incline.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 1)
- "I don't know for certain; but I should be inclined to think it was from general neshness of constitution.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1)
- inclining her head as she spoke in the direction of the room where Fanny lay.
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2) *inclining = angling (or bending or leaning)
- Throughout the length of this narrow and irksome inclined plane not a sign of life was visible on this garish afternoon.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- …exhausting himself in attempts to get back to the mouth of the cove, in his weakness swimming several inches deeper than was his wont, keeping up his breathing entirely by his nostrils, turning upon his back a dozen times over, swimming en papillon, and so on, Troy resolved as a last resource to tread water at a slight incline, and so endeavour to reach the shore at any point, merely giving himself a gentle impetus inwards whilst carried on in the general direction of the tide.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- "I have pressed her upon the subject, and she inclines to be kind to me, and to think of me as a husband at a long future time, and that's enough for me.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1)
- And I'm inclined to think we'd better keep quiet.
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1) *inclined = tending (with tendency)
Definitions:
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(1) (inclined as in: I'm inclined to) a tendency, mood, desire, or attitude that favors something; or making someone favor something
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(2) (incline as in: on an incline or incline his head) to be at an angle or to bend