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All Over but the Shoutin'
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- I climbed trees and was prone to fall out of them.
Chpt 1.4 *prone = had a tendency (to do something)
- He drank but was prone to work hard and regular.†
Chpt 1.3
- But like a lot of creative people, she was prone to periods of brief ....well, she could go a little peculiar.†
Chpt 1.3
- His hip bone was prone to come out of joint and when it happened he would not go to a doctor or do anything else that was remotely sensible, but he would limp and cuss and drink and limp and cuss and drink until all he could do was lie on the bed and cuss and drink.†
Chpt 1.5
- We had the same one-dollar haircut by an absentminded barber who was prone to cut at an angle, so that the hair slanted down over one eye, like a patch.†
Chpt 1.10
- The chain was prone to come off at high speed, locking up the rear wheel at sixty miles per hour, but it was still a motorcycle, paid for with money I earned working for my uncle Ed. The girl was my first steady one.†
Chpt 1.12
- I flew a million miles in single-engine planes with pilots who learned to soar in Vietnam but were prone to doze at the controls in the boredom of a Mississippi sky.†
Chpt 2.17
- And, of course, my all-time favorite, Jimmy "Smut" Means, the one who was prone to hit the wall at Talladega, and live.†
Chpt 2.17
- Others are more prone to wear swastikas than burn crosses.†
Chpt 2.29
- The place I settled into was an old four-unit apartment building where passersby were prone to steal the mail—the mail police told me so in a letter, which they mailed to me at home, risking it—and the washing machine danced back and forth in the closet like a mentally deranged great-aunt.†
Chpt 3.34
- Smokey didn't look like much, and, like my own machine in Atlanta, was prone to dance across the floor, as if possessed by demons on the spin cycle.†
Chpt 3.41
- She said she was prone to just move on, when people got close to her.†
Chpt 3.41
Definitions:
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(1)
(prone as in: prone to) having a tendency (to do something)
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(2)
(prone as in: prone position) lying flat -- especially face downward
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)