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propensity
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    Adam's tough, daring reputation was rivaled only by his propensity for kindness.†  (source)
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    The Count had been about to remark on Mishka's propensity for getting into scrapes and his love of pacing, but she had just described his old friend better than he ever had.†  (source)
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    If, for an extreme example, cleft palates showed up in every litter—meaning pups that had to be put down—you knew that the sire carried a propensity toward cleft palate.†  (source)
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    The vicious propensities—the want of principle, which he was careful to guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escape the observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself, and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments, which Mr. Darcy could not have.†  (source)
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    Then, it is true, the propensity of human nature to tell the very worst of itself, when embodied in the person of another, would constrain them to whisper the black scandal of bygone years.†  (source)
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    That he knew about her propensities as a hacker was serious.†  (source)
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    A propensity to be saucy was one; and a perverse will, that indulged children invariably acquire, whether they be good tempered or cross.†  (source)
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    A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions.†  (source)
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    She had a turn for traffic, and a marked propensity for saving; shown not only in the vending of eggs and chickens, but also in driving hard bargains with the gardener about flower-roots, seeds, and slips of plants; that functionary having orders from Mrs. Reed to buy of his young lady all the products of her parterre she wished to sell: and Eliza would have sold the hair off her head if she could have made a handsome profit thereby.†  (source)
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    It is the idea that particular talents and propensities in the human soul are reflected in or perhaps even caused by protuberances and depressions in the shape of the skull.†  (source)
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    She is a creature devoid of moral faculties, and with the propensity to murder strongly developed.†  (source)
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    We see that Danglars was collected enough to jest; at the same time, as though to disprove the ogreish propensities, the man took some black bread, cheese, and onions from his wallet, which he began devouring voraciously.†  (source)
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    Solomon had a propensity for dramatics, and Langdon wondered if he wasn't being played a bit here.†  (source)
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