All 30 Uses of

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Of Human Bondage

When the parson set about restoring his church and asked his brother for a subscription, he was surprised by receiving a couple of hundred pounds: Mr. Carey, thrifty by inclination and economical by necessity, accepted it with mingled feelings; he was envious of his brother because he could afford to give so much, pleased for the sake of his church, and vaguely irritated by a generosity which seemed almost ostentatious.†
Chpt 5-6

inclination = tendency; or desire

She was not so sure as her husband that they did right in thwarting so strong an inclination.†
Chpt 39-40

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.'†
Chpt 53-54

inclinations = tendencies (attitudes favoring)

He forgot for the moment his maxim of life to follow his inclinations with due regard for the policeman round the corner; or, if he acted in accordance with it, there must have been some strange morbidity in his nature which made him take a grim pleasure in self-torture.†
Chpt 59-60

Most of them had "fellers,' and those who hadn't said they had rather than have it supposed that no one had an inclination for them.†
Chpt 105-106

inclination = tendency; or desire

Philip did not feel inclined to go to bed.
Chpt 113-114 *

inclined = in the mood

He was a man of somewhat less than average height, inclined to corpulence, with his hair, worn long, arranged over the scalp so as to conceal his baldness.†
Chpt 3-4

Philip felt inclined to cry, but he had an instinctive disinclination to letting other people see his tears, and he clenched his teeth to prevent the sobs from escaping.†
Chpt 7-8

He felt his ears tingling, he was a little inclined to cry, but no word would issue from his lips.†
Chpt 7-8

He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent.†
Chpt 11-12

That was the day of His Son's glorious resurrection, and God in His happiness might be mercifully inclined.†
Chpt 13-14

These from his distance he admired extravagantly; and though he was inclined to be more sarcastic with them than with others, though he made little jokes at their expense, he would have given anything to change places with them.†
Chpt 17-18

The autumn air, blithe and vivacious, elated Philip; and when towards mid-day they stood in the great court-yard of the Louvre, he felt inclined to cry like Flanagan: To hell with art.†
Chpt 43-44

He was not so ingenuous as in those days which now seemed so long ago at Heidelberg, and, beginning to take a more deliberate interest in humanity, he was inclined to examine and to criticise.†
Chpt 43-44

At Gravier's where they ate, and in the evening at the Versailles or at the Closerie des Lilas Clutton was inclined to taciturnity.†
Chpt 43-44

But she's been rather troublesome lately, she's been inclined to take too much on herself, and I thought this was a very good opportunity to give her notice.'†
Chpt 51-52

He was an obstinate fellow, and the suspicion that his talent did not lie in one direction made him inclined to force circumstances and aim notwithstanding precisely in that direction.†
Chpt 51-52

He remembered her insolence; sometimes he had felt inclined to box her ears; and suddenly, he knew not why, perhaps it was the thought of hitting her or the recollection of her tiny, beautiful ears, he was seized by an uprush of emotion.†
Chpt 57-58

For one instant he felt inclined to tell her to go to hell, but he dared not.†
Chpt 59-60

He still talked vaguely of the things he was going to do in the future, but with less conviction; and he was conscious that his friends no longer believed in him: when he had drank two or three glasses of whiskey he was inclined to be elegiac.†
Chpt 67-68

He was almost inclined to reproach her because he had allowed himself to get on such intimate terms with her.†
Chpt 69-70

Philip felt a little inclined to pat himself on the back for his skill in managing the business.†
Chpt 71-72

She was not angry with him now, but puzzled; she had no idea what he meant: she accepted the situation, she had indeed a vague feeling that he was behaving in a very noble fashion and that she ought to admire it; but also she felt inclined to laugh at him and perhaps even to despise him a little.†
Chpt 93-94

My people don't feel inclined to hold those shares any more, the market's in such an awful state, and they want you to take them up.'†
Chpt 97-98

Philip felt angrily inclined to say he need not be afraid, he was not going to borrow from him, but he held his tongue.†
Chpt 107-108

He was immensely elated at being engaged as a locum; it made him feel extremely grown up; he had an insane desire to laugh at nothing in particular; and the more he thought of his professional dignity the more he was inclined to chuckle.†
Chpt 115-116

Definitions:

(1) (inclined as in: I'm inclined to)
a tendency, mood, desire, or attitude that favors something; or making someone favor something
(2) (incline as in: on an incline or incline his head)
to be at an angle or to bend
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)