All 15 Uses of
dispose
in
Ben Hur
- The place was the best then at disposal.
Chpt 1.9 *disposal = command
- When a lock was disposed to her satisfaction, she would unloose the small metallic mirror which, as was the fashion among her fair countrywomen, she wore at her girdle, and gave it to him, that he might see the triumph, and how handsome it made him.†
Chpt 2.6
- The cohort at length marched back to the Tower, where the procurator stayed to recover from his hurts and dispose of his prisoners.†
Chpt 2.6
- The action was so quiet that before the guard could interfere, had they been disposed to do so, he was stooping over the prisoner, and offering him drink.†
Chpt 2.7
- Over melon-patches, and through apricot and fig-tree groves, and groves of oranges and limes, the white-washed houses of the farmers were seen; and everywhere Plenty, the smiling daughter of Peace, gave notice by her thousand signs that she was at home, making the generous traveller merry at heart, until he was even disposed to give Rome her dues.†
Chpt 4.10
- "You must know," Malluch continued, pausing now and then to dispose of a date, "that the merchant Simonides gives me his confidence, and sometimes flatters me by taking me into council; and as I attend him at his house, I have made acquaintance with many of his friends, who, knowing my footing with the host, talk to him freely in my presence.†
Chpt 4.10
- They laved their hands again, had the lap-cloths shaken out, and with a renewed table and the sharp edge of their appetites gone they were disposed to talk and listen.†
Chpt 4.14
- —the family were seized and summarily disposed of, and their property confiscated.†
Chpt 5.1
- Referring to the limit of life at the oar, the outlaw thus justly disposed of should be dead, or, better speaking, some one of the three thousand Oceanides should have taken him to husband at least five years ago.†
Chpt 5.1
- The mid-day meal disposed of, still further to occupy himself, Ben-Hur had the chariot rolled out into the sunlight for inspection.†
Chpt 5.6
- The passenger is the agent going to dispose of the estate derived from Arrius the duumvir.†
Chpt 5.9
- If he is disposed to repent the agreement with Ilderim, a little time is allowed him to give notice and break it off.†
Chpt 5.9
- Thus disposed, yielding to the sweet influence, what shall save him from the dangers there are in days of the close companionship with the fair Egyptian incident to the solitary journey they were entered upon?†
Chpt 7.4
- "...afterwhile I put them together, and was happy as a woman can be who has at disposal the fortune and life of a man whom"—she stopped, and beat the floor with her foot, and looked away as if to hide a sudden emotion from him; with an air of even painful resolution she presently finished the sentence—"whom she is at loss what to do with."
Chpt 8.6disposal = command
- In certain moods the mind is disposed to mock itself with inapposite fancies.†
Chpt 8.7 *
Definitions:
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(dispose as in: disposed the troops along...) the arrangement, positioning, or use of thingseditor's notes: This sense of dispose can be used in the form disposal to indicate that a person can use something as they wish -- as in:
- I am at your disposal.
- She has many assets at her disposal.
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(dispose as in: dispose of the waste) to throw away