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The Brothers Karamazov

It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief.†
Chpt 1 *

First, that 'no social organization can or ought to arrogate to itself power to dispose of the civic and political rights of its members.'†
Chpt 2

It occurred to him, too, that this Pole must be the friend of the other, as it were, a "bodyguard," and no doubt the big Pole was at the disposal of the little Pole with the pipe.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)

disposal = command

"My goddess!" cried the Pole on the sofa, "I see you're not well-disposed to me, that's why I'm gloomy.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2) *

Now, gentlemen, I am at your disposal, entirely at your disposal.
Chpt 9 (definition 1) *

disposal = command

Now, gentlemen, I am at your disposal, entirely at your disposal.
Chpt 9 (definition 1)

I'm at your disposal, gentlemen, but I declare that we must have mutual confidence, you in me and I in you, or there'll be no end to it.†
Chpt 9

It will be properly taken care of and be at your disposal at the conclusion of …. what is beginning …. if it appears, or, so to speak, is proved that you have undisputed right to it.
Chpt 9 (definition 1)

disposal = command

As a matter of fact, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, I've always been disposed to regard you as, so to speak, more unfortunate than guilty.†
Chpt 9

What piqued him most was that these boys of fifteen turned up their noses at him too superciliously, and were at first disposed to treat him as "a small boy," not fit to associate with them, and that was an unendurable insult.†
Chpt 10

But the captain of the police, Mihail Mihailovitch, was very favorably disposed to Grushenka.†
Chpt 11

Many ladies quarreled violently with their husbands over differences of opinion about the dreadful case, and it was only natural that the husbands of these ladies, far from being favorably disposed to the prisoner, should enter the court bitterly prejudiced against him.†
Chpt 12

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(1) (dispose as in: disposed the troops along...)
the arrangement, positioning, or use of things
editor's notes: This sense of dispose can be used in the form disposal to indicate that a person can use something as they wish -- as in:
- I am at your disposal.
- She has many assets at her disposal.

(2) (dispose as in: Is she disposed to help?)
inclined (with a tendency to; or in the mood to)

editor's notes: This is usually seen in the form "disposed to..." or "disposed toward..."

(dispose as in: dispose of the waste)
to throw away