All 12 Uses of
inclined
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- He took his way to the upper regions and on the staircase met Ralph Touchett slowly descending, his hat at the inclination of ennui and his hands where they usually were.†
Chpt 28
- It gives me pleasure, I assure you," he went on, standing there before her, considerately inclined to her, turning his hat, which he had taken up, slowly round with a movement which had all the decent tremor of awkwardness and none of its oddity, and presenting to her his firm, refined, slightly ravaged face.†
Chpt 29
- If her thoughts just now had inclined themselves to retrospect, instead of fluttering their wings nervously about the present, they would have evoked a multitude of interesting pictures.†
Chpt 31
- Mr. Osmond, however, will probably incline to believe he can do better.†
Chpt 36
- As she had been inveterate in the past only in the sense of constantly having an apartment in one of the sunniest niches of the Pincian—an apartment which often stood empty—this suggested a prospect of almost constant absence; a danger which Isabel at one period had been much inclined to deplore.†
Chpt 40
- Isabel now saw more of her than she had done since her marriage; but by this time Isabel's needs and inclinations had considerably changed.†
Chpt 40 *
- Isabel was perfectly aware that she had not taken the measure of Pansy's tenacity, which might prove to be inconveniently great; but she inclined to see her as rather letting go, under suggestion, than as clutching under deprecation—since she had certainly the faculty of assent developed in a very much higher degree than that of protest.†
Chpt 41
- She felt much inclined to ask him to remove them.†
Chpt 43
- He had had beneficent inclinations, but they had stopped short of fruition; he had never committed himself, and his honour was safe.†
Chpt 46
- He had removed his hat and was bowing and smiling; he had evidently introduced himself, while the Countess's expressive back displayed to Isabel's eye a gracious inclination.†
Chpt 50
- He looked a while, with his head inclined a little, at the basket of flowers in the middle of the table.†
Chpt 50
- She had no inclination to sleep; she was waiting, and such waiting was wakeful.†
Chpt 55
Definition:
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(inclined as in: I'm inclined to) a tendency, mood, desire, or attitude that favors something; or making someone favor something