All 21 Uses of
inclined
in
The Return of the Native
- Looking upwards, a furze-cutter would have been inclined to continue work; looking down, he would have decided to finish his faggot and go home.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- After replying to the old man's greeting he showed no inclination to continue in talk, although they still walked side by side, for the elder traveller seemed to desire company.
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *inclination = attitude favoring
- The silence conveyed to neither any sense of awkwardness; in these lonely places wayfarers, after a first greeting, frequently plod on for miles without speech; contiguity amounts to a tacit conversation where, otherwise than in cities, such contiguity can be put an end to on the merest inclination, and where not to put an end to it is intercourse in itself.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Occasionally, it is true, a more vigorous flare than usual from their faggots sent darting lights like aides-de-camp down the inclines to some distant bush, pool, or patch of white sand, kindling these to replies of the same colour, till all was lost in darkness again.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- "And so Tamsin has married him at last," said Olly, when the incline had become so much less steep that their footsteps no longer required undivided attention.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- "Well," said Timothy Fairway, feeling demands upon his praise in some form or other, " 'tis a worthy thing to be married, Mr. Wildeve; and the woman you've got is a dimant, so says I. Yes," he continued, to Grandfer Cantle, raising his voice so as to be heard through the partition, "her father (inclining his head towards the inner room) was as good a feller as ever lived.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- The bank which enclosed the homestead, and protected it from the lawless state of the world without, was formed of thick square clods, dug from the ditch on the outside, and built up with a slight batter or incline, which forms no slight defense where hedges will not grow because of the wind and the wilderness, and where wall materials are unattainable.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- A keen observer might have been inclined to think—which was, indeed, partly the truth—that he had relinquished his proper station in life for want of interest in it.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- She has come between me and my inclination, and now that she finds herself rightly punished she gets you to plead for her!†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- She inclined her head, and swept round so that her eyes rested in the misty vale beneath them.
Chpt 1 (definition 2) *inclined = bent or angled
- There was no doubt that her mind was inclined thitherward; indefinitely, fancifully—twining and untwining about him as the single object within her horizon on which dreams might crystallize.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- A series of attentions paid to her, and yet not to her but to some imaginary person, by the first man she had ever been inclined to adore, complicated her emotions indescribably.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- Is she a young lady inclined for adventures?†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- In addition to the upward path through the heath to Rainbarrow and Mistover, there was a road which branched from the highway a short distance below the inn, and ascended to Mistover by a circuitous and easy incline.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Thus far the reddleman had been tolerably successful in his rude contrivances for keeping down Wildeve's inclination to rove in the evening.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- Your visits would make Wildeve walk straighter than he is inclined to do, and might prevent unhappiness down the heath.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- If ever you SHOULD be inclined to blame me, think of a certain evening by Rainbarrow, when you promised to meet me and did not.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- On inclining into the latter path Yeobright felt a creeping chilliness, familiar enough to most people, and probably caused by the unsunned morning air.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- Had she not by her situation been inclined to hold in indifference all things honoured of the gods and of men she would probably have come away.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- Were Eustacia still at Mistover the very least he expected was that she would send him back a reply tonight by the same hand; though, to leave all to her inclination, he had cautioned Fairway not to ask for an answer.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- Here he said, with a wild smile, inclining his head towards the chamber in which Eustacia lay, "She is the second woman I have killed this year.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
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