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  • Her disposition is to work within whatever guidelines are set. She'll do a great job unless you need a rule breaker to solve this problem.
    disposition = inclination
  • She is an open-minded senator with a conservative disposition.
  • We'll see if her cheerful disposition continues when she's tired and under stress.
    disposition = mood or way of behaving
  • Each juror should listen, with a disposition to be convinced, to the opinions and arguments of the other jurors.   (source)
    disposition = inclination
  • As far as dispositions go, hers wasn't really enviable, although she had a good record with foster kids in the past.   (source)
    dispositions = normal moods, personalities, or inclinations
  • She had auburn hair, a curvy figure, a buoyant disposition, a quick mind, and a family cat named Chopper.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • Jonas's mother, for example, had higher intelligence than his father; but his father had a calmer disposition.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood
  • His disposition had been irritatingly sour lately.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to resist it.   (source)
    disposition = inclination (something someone is inclined to do, or tends to do)
  • No two women who enter will be exactly the same—not in looks or preferences or disposition.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
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  • Yeah, I swear I've been looking in the rearview mirror and wondering where my babies were and where these three bad-dispositioned, sour-faced, middle-age midgets came from.   (source)
    dispositioned = mood
  • I took it for granted that he kept his temper—he had a naturally tranquil disposition and a slow fuse.   (source)
    disposition = temperament (normal way of behaving)
  • His disposition now intensified, his focus total.   (source)
    disposition = mood
  • New instructors, elderly townsmen of unreliable sobriety and disposition, are brought in.   (source)
    disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
  • I'm blessed with many things: happiness, a cheerful disposition and strength.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • So feel I. Living in the Congo shakes open the prison house of my disposition and lets all the wicked hoodoo Adahs run forth.   (source)
    disposition = normal way of behaving
  • He wasn't that much older than me—maybe four years-and had such a sweet, gentle disposition, always placing a hand on your shoulder or back to make a point.   (source)
    disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
  • I am of a sullen disposition with a quarrelsome temper...   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • A partly shaved-haired local girl who was not a doctor or a nurse but just a volunteer, a teenager with a kind disposition, not more than eighteen or nineteen years of age, cleaned and dressed the wound, gently, holding Nadia's arm as though it was something precious, holding it almost shyly.   (source)
  • She gave me little smiles whenever our eyes met; and really, her disposition was as sweet and kind as could be.   (source)
  • Ever since the night Patch came over, the lock had developed a greedy disposition.   (source)
    disposition = normal way of behaving
  • He had the meanest disposition of any boy I had ever known.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood, personality, or inclination
  • The previous notion that disposition is everything — that the cause of violent behavior is always "sociopathic personality" or "deficient superego" or the inability to delay gratification or some evil in the genes — is, in the end, the most passive and reactive of ideas about crime.   (source)
  • If she's dispositioned like you, I vow I'll just about love her to death.   (source)
    dispositioned = with a normal mood or personality
  • Hate, not fear, ruled him, a disposition he found useful as a killer.   (source)
    disposition = inclination (normal way of reacting)
  • He says she suffers from an "imperious disposition."   (source)
    disposition = personality
  • He is gone without my knowledge or my consent, I know not whither, because of his violence and the rash and disobedient disposition of youth.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood, personality, or inclination
  • Beanie and Zach were there too, and I could tell by the tightness around Beanie's jaw, and by Zach's happy disposition, that she had still not told him.   (source)
    disposition = mood
  • He will learn their dispositions and inclinations.   (source)
    dispositions = inclinations (normal behaviors)
  • She is in a good mood for a change, and the new book is certainly helping her disposition.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood
  • But Lotte had an amiable, generous disposition that refuted the look of menace.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood, personality, or inclination
  • Fortunately I am not of a fainting disposition.   (source)
    disposition = inclination
  • As for Jim, no disappointments have been severe enough to chill his naturally romantic and ardent disposition.   (source)
    disposition = inclination or desire
  • This tortoise-shell lady, usually of a retiring disposition, came today to rub herself against the brown stockings of Bobbie with arched back, waving tail, and reverberating purrs.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood, personality, or inclination
  • Everybody was sorry she died... But I reckoned that with her disposition she was having a better time in the graveyard.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • Mrs. Penniman was a tall, thin, fair, rather faded woman, with a perfectly amiable disposition, a high standard of gentility, a taste for light literature, and a certain foolish indirectness and obliquity of character.   (source)
  • Even had there been a disposition to turn the matter into ridicule, it must have been repressed and overpowered by the solemn presence of men no less dignified than the governor, and several of his counsellors, a judge, a general, and the ministers of the town...   (source)
    disposition = inclination or desire
  • I am of a cheerful disposition myself, and Mr. Vincy always likes something to be going on.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • Every thing he possessed in the shape of learning or religion, he made conform to his disposition to deceive.   (source)
    disposition = inclination or desire
  • My pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my disposition.   (source)
    disposition = mood
  • She was naturally of a kindly and forgiving disposition.   (source)
    disposition = temperament (normal way of behaving)
  • This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.   (source)
    disposition = normal temperament (normal way of acting and being)
  • She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood or personality
  • Asher's cheerful disposition was well-known throughout the community.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • His behavior was due at least partly to Mamaw's disposition.   (source)
    disposition = normal temperament (normal way of acting and being)
  • I didn't say you were pushy, but no one would describe you as having a retiring disposition.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • He's a sweet little male with a lovely disposition.   (source)
  • Hardly like Atticus: if you asked him how he was feeling he would tell you, but he never complained; his disposition remained the same, so in order to find out how he was feeling, you had to ask him.   (source)
    disposition = normal way of behaving (personality or apparent mood)
  • She has the alarmed, slightly pop-eyed look that signals either an overly nervous disposition or a disease of the thyroid.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • They could see that the navy was firing heavily—black smoke rose from the island in great billows—and this began to have a positive influence on the disposition of Third Platoon.   (source)
    disposition = mood
  • China Clay turned out to be poisonous, to begin with, which probably accounted in part for Granny's foul disposition.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • Adah I T WAS NEITHER DIABOLICAL NOR divine; it but shook the doors of the prison house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.   (source)
    disposition = normal way of behaving
  • They sum up prospects by studying each other's clothing and disposition, and the bargaining process is well under way before they open their mouths to speak.   (source)
  • Ilse Wagner is a nice girl with a cheerful disposition, but she's extremely finicky and can spend hours moaning and groaning about something.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • Grace was of a lively disposition and pleasant manners and may have been an object of jealousy to Nancy…   (source)
  • All of the factors — disposition, energy level, intelligence, and interests — had to correspond and to interact perfectly.   (source)
    disposition = normal personality
  • I have studied her carefully, and know her character and disposition better than you can possibly do.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • Henny Mets is a nice girl with a cheerful disposition, except that she talks in a loud voice and is really childish when we're playing outdoors.   (source)
  • Her boldness does not show that she is a sensitive person and her want of gratitude is a convincing proof of her unfortunate disposition.   (source)
  • I'm not all that ugly, or that stupid, I have a sunny disposition, and I want to develop a good character!   (source)
  • And as we were standing thus, close together on the stairs with his hand on mine, Nancy came into the downstairs hall, and saw us; which did nothing to improve her disposition towards me.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood
  • In disposition, she was Pollard's antithesis, governing her life with rigid reserve as he scattered his passions.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • Phipps crossed her fingers, hoping that these matings would re-create the perfect forms of the forebears without the tyrannical disposition.   (source)
    disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
  • Buckheath glanced angrily and contemptuously into the stupid, fatuous countenance above him; he appeared to curb with some difficulty the disposition to retort in kind.   (source)
    disposition = inclination
  • For all his disposition to keep hands off the personal development of his friends, perhaps on account of it, Gray made an excellent teacher, and these writings—the garnered grain, the gist, of his own wide culture—were the very sinews for the race Johnnie was setting out on.   (source)
    disposition = tendency
  • Power being almost always the rival of power, the general government will at all times stand ready to check the usurpations of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government.   (source)
    disposition = inclination or desire
  • Her more fearless disposition and happier nerves made everything easy to her there.   (source)
    disposition = temperament (personality)
  • I was ignorant of his temper and disposition; he was equally so of mine.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood, personality, or inclinations
  • And this, moreover, was a mother's estimate of the child's disposition.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • He had all the disposition to persevere that Sir Thomas could wish him.   (source)
    disposition = inclination (something someone is inclined to do, or tends to do)
  • Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor.   (source)
    disposition = inclination (natural tendency)
  • Upon her disposition he believed kindness might be the best way of working.   (source)
    disposition = personality
  • He possessed all the disposition to deceive, but wanted the power.   (source)
    disposition = inclination or desire
  • It is your disposition to be easily dejected and to fancy difficulties greater than they are.   (source)
    disposition = temperament (normal mood and personality)
  • Gentlemen, I wish the money was there, for I ain't got no disposition to throw anything in the way of a fair, open, out-and-out investigation o' this misable business; but, alas, the money ain't there; you k'n send and see, if you want to.   (source)
    disposition = inclination
  • This disposition, though it often made him seem very funny when he was a boy, has been one of the strongest elements in his success.   (source)
    disposition = normal way of behaving
  • He was so handicapped by illiteracy and by his trusting disposition that he would be an easy prey to sharpers.   (source)
    disposition = inclination (natural tendency)
  • Jos Sedley had acted as a man of his disposition would, when the announcement of the family misfortune reached him.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • The master is a person of an excellent disposition and is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness and the mildness of his discipline.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood, personality, or inclination
  • Here, one would suppose, might have been sorrow enough to imbue the sunniest disposition through and through with a sable tinge.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.   (source)
    disposition = normal temperament (normal way of acting and being)
  • They were now illuminated by the morning radiance of a young child's disposition, but, later in the day of earthly existence, might be prolific of the storm and whirlwind.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.   (source)
    disposition = normal temperament (normal way of acting and being)
  • Pearl, in utter scorn of her mother's attempt to quiet her, gave an eldritch scream, and then became silent, not from any notion of obedience, but because the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition was excited by the appearance of those new personages.   (source)
    disposition = personality
  • My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!   (source)
    disposition = inclination or desire
  • My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.   (source)
    disposition = personality
  • She had the highest esteem for Mr. Rushworth's character and disposition, and could not have a doubt of her happiness with him.   (source)
    disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
  • Her agitation and alarm exceeded all that was endured by the rest, by the right of a disposition which not even innocence could keep from suffering.   (source)
    disposition = temperament (in this case, to be highly concerned with doing what is right and to feel bad about any shortcoming)
  • I could mention innumerable instances which, although slight, marked the dispositions of these amiable cottagers.   (source)
    dispositions = normal moods, personalities, or inclinations
  • ...the thought of passing out of their hands into those of Master Andrew—a man who, but a few days before, to give me a sample of his bloody disposition, took my little brother by the throat, threw him on the ground, and with the heel of his boot stamped upon his head till the blood gushed from his nose and ears—was well calculated to make me anxious as to my fate.   (source)
    disposition = normal temperament (normal way of acting and being)
  • Elizabeth saw even this last resource, her excellent dispositions and irreproachable conduct, about to fail the accused, when, although violently agitated, she desired permission to address the court.   (source)
    dispositions = normal moods, personalities, or inclinations
  • Poor man! such was his disposition, and success at deceiving, I do verily believe that he sometimes deceived himself into the solemn belief, that he was a sincere worshipper of the most high God; and this, too, at a time when he may be said to have been guilty of compelling his woman slave to commit the sin of adultery.   (source)
    disposition = inclination or desire
  • Susan had an open, sensible countenance; she was like William, and Fanny hoped to find her like him in disposition and goodwill towards herself.   (source)
    disposition = normal mood and personality
  • You were attached to each other from your earliest infancy; you studied together, and appeared, in dispositions and tastes, entirely suited to one another.   (source)
    dispositions = normal moods, personalities, or inclinations
  • We were one; and as much so by our tempers and dispositions, as by the mutual hardships to which we were necessarily subjected by our condition as slaves.   (source)
  • Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement.   (source)
    disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
  • I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.   (source)
    dispositions = normal moods, personalities, or inclinations
  • The Grants showing a disposition to be friendly and sociable, gave great satisfaction in the main among their new acquaintance.   (source)
    disposition = inclination (normal tendency)
  • They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.   (source)
    dispositions = normal moods, personalities, or inclinations
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  • We are awaiting the commander's final disposition of the matter.
    disposition = decision to settle a matter
  • The disposition of Michael Oher's application to Briarcrest was Steve Simpson's decision, and normally he would have had no trouble making it: an emphatic, gusty rejection.   (source)
    disposition = final decision
  • That August, the Japanese War Ministry would issue a clarification of this order, sending it to all POW camp commanders: At such time as the situation becomes urgent and it be extremely important, the POWs will be concentrated and confined in their present location and under heavy guard the preparation for the final disposition will be made ….   (source)
    disposition = action taken when an issue is settled so it no longer requires attention
  • I drew it out and was scratching down the directions for these dispositions when the door to the cottage opened.   (source)
    dispositions = decisions
  • The press was there in force, but I sensed that they understood, too, that the occasion wasn't particularly momentous or crucial to the disposition of actual events, the real violence and tension, even if they would portray it as such on the evening programs.   (source)
    disposition = settling
  • In order to fully protect Miss Cardinal's rights in this matter, we are seeking to have her declared mentally unfit, and to have a guardian appointed so that an orderly disposition of her affairs may be conducted, including this very lucrative offer from Southern Valley.   (source)
    disposition = handling (decisions and actions)
  • The first of these dated from ten years back, and consisted of a series of dispositions by which he left the great mass of property to his daughter, with becoming legacies to his two sisters.   (source)
    dispositions = decisions
  • It is so, with testamentary dispositions.   (source)
  • And so, making his last dispositions, Captain Crawley ... went through the various items of his little catalogue of effects, striving to see how they might be turned into money for his wife's benefit, in case any accident should befall him.   (source)
    dispositions = decisions to settle things
  • And we must make our dispositions accordingly. [due to the plague]   (source)
    dispositions = arrangements (decisions and actions)
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  • The store is going to close forever. We have not decided on the disposition of the inventory.
    disposition = transferring of ownership
  • Sherrie wanted to talk about the disposition of certain funds, but John kept joking with her, stalling her with odd cracks and silliness.   (source)
    disposition = use
  • The person or group with the POWER to originate the disposition of honors and salary is more likely to attract than be attracted to the POWER that can only block them.   (source)
    disposition = giving
  • Did you, in any of your previous interviews, ask my client directly about disposition of funds?   (source)
    disposition = use or transfer
  • The line was busy for the second time so Webb replaced the phone and returned to W. F. Vella's Siam under Rama III to see if the Burmese exchange student had been right about Rama IPs conflict with the sultan of Kedah over the disposition of the island of Penang.   (source)
    disposition = transferring control
  • Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter either penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a matrimonial alliance.   (source)
    disposition = transferring items of value
  • As the couple grew older, they quarrelled more and more often about the ultimate disposition of their 'property.'   (source)
    disposition = transferring of ownership
  • You do not like to hear these things, Vincy, but on this occasion I feel called upon to tell you that I have no motive for furthering such a disposition of property as that which you refer to.   (source)
    disposition = transferring
  • Miss Crawley was now in the habit of writing to Mr. Waxy her solicitor almost every day in the week, for her arrangements respecting her property were all revoked, and her perplexity was great as to the future disposition of her money.   (source)
    disposition = transfer or use
  • Frankly, however, I must admit that in this case any other form of disposition would have rendered impossible the carrying out of her wishes. For by her predeceasing her daughter the latter would have come into possession of the property, and...   (source)
    disposition = transferring items of value
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  • Was disposition of the troops done in a strategic manner?   (source)
  • When we came to the discussion of the sequence of our efforts and of the disposition of our forces, there were new sources of doubt.   (source)
  • ADDRESS: 2929 Ridgemont Lane
    FINDING: Suicide
    DISPOSITION: Deceased   (source)
    disposition = the arrangement or position
  • —from a roomful of white men who held in their manicured hands the disposition of armies and atomic bombs, the power to extinguish every life on earth.   (source)
    disposition = positioning
  • I had been commanded to serve at dinner at the Hall that afternoon, and before that I would have to scour the house from bottom to top and then figure on the disposition of Mr. Viccars's effects.   (source)
    disposition = the arrangement or position
  • The Serbs stopped firing and stayed their ground, thinking that the engagement was finished, but First Battalion discovered that the route they were taking led to high ground over the enemy dispositions.   (source)
    dispositions = placements
  • After their carriage ride, the Lincolns eat dinner with their sons, and then Crook walks the president back to the War Department for a third time, to see if General Sherman has sent a telegraph stating the disposition of his troops in the South.   (source)
    disposition = placement
  • The first was that the size and disposition of the attacking force could not be accurately estimated and the risk of capture or death outside was too great.   (source)
    disposition = positioning
  • But I disliked him for speaking them: he had spoken as someone who had foreseen it all and had made his dispositions.   (source)
    dispositions = arrangements
  • The line of aircraft coming up on Gruensee from the south was funneled toward it by the disposition of mountains and the track of the sun.   (source)
    disposition = placement
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  • Through a powerful telescope chained to a plate in the ceiling so it would not be inadvertently dropped from the window, he showed Alessandro the latest Austrian dispositions, upon which he had become expert.   (source)
    dispositions = placements
  • ...in all probability, he does not know that such a power exists to us as can sterilize his lairs, so that he cannot use them as of old. We are now so much further advanced in our knowledge as to their disposition that, when we have examined the house in Piccadilly, we may track the very last of them.   (source)
    disposition = arrangement or use of things
  • and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed.   (source)
    disposition = the arrangement or position
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  • Because Alexander Rostov could be counted upon to draw his dinner companions into a lively conversation, whatever their dispositions.†   (source)
  • What I found was a black man with a warm disposition and a booming voice, who bristled with energy and was constantly in motion, his hands swooping like birds in flight to accentuate his points.†   (source)
  • But such was clearly not her disposition.†   (source)
  • His pleasant disposition gave him a goofy quality that was probably what most people mean when they use the word "hick."†   (source)
  • It just has a foul disposition.†   (source)
  • She had such a sweet-tempered disposition, it was impossible to stay angry with her.†   (source)
  • Her even disposition is one of her best qualities.†   (source)
  • Feeling the black-furred creature begin to stir, Emily let her thoughts move away from her eldest daughter and sent the tendrils of a worrying disposition out toward her youngest.†   (source)
  • "It's a clean animal, with a nice disposition.†   (source)
  • …… I do not know what it is any more than he.
    I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.†   (source)
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  • Maybe not, Matt thought, but he doubted those quills had improved the dog's disposition.†   (source)
  • Allie organized, as was her disposition.†   (source)
  • For a while I'd been irritated by her dreamy disposition; but she was simple, and it was refreshing.†   (source)
  • All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition.†   (source)
  • People always felt sorry for him because of his back, though I've never met anyone so naturally gifted with a happy disposition, and of course the customers loved him …. outgoing fellow, very sociable, always was ….†   (source)
  • It has a nasty, mean disposition and its teeth are green with gangrene and it bites.†   (source)
  • Ruth used to joke that Fu-Fu, her feral cat, born with a nasty disposition, was the grandchild LuLing never had.†   (source)
  • The ultimate disposition of the material was irrelevant, a recreation.†   (source)
  • "We have been informed that carcasses in your plant are occasionally being delayed for extended periods of time on the USDA out-rail for final disposition (up to 6 hours)," the IBP memo began.†   (source)
  • Not for the first time, and far from the last, she envied Maman her naturally self-assured disposition.†   (source)
  • We don't have the disposition, the rage or whatever it takes to be a killer.†   (source)
  • I said a silent prayer that Marley had inherited his mother's disposition.†   (source)
  • No obviously bad effects were noticed from these ill-advised unions, but one or two old maids or gardener boys marked a weakening of faculties and a disposition toward eccentricity in some of the children.†   (source)
  • Her usual sunny disposition was gone.†   (source)
  • Can't say I felt particularly sorry about it because that baboon had the nastiest disposition around here.†   (source)
  • Elves do not incline toward the open displays of friendship humans and dwarves favor, and I have ever been of a solitary disposition.†   (source)
  • Disposition: Sent KSP 3-13-56 from Phillips Co. 5-10 yrs.†   (source)
  • The next day brought no opportunity, for Moody again was off work, and he was in a foul disposition.†   (source)
  • Did the boys represent the ideal for your Woman, Man, or Child of Excellent Bearing, Colour, Balance, and Summer Disposition?†   (source)
  • In prison, one likes to be around men who have a sunny disposition, and Selby had one.†   (source)
  • All it takes is a big voice and a mean disposition.†   (source)
  • He tried to read in her countenance any disposition of the mistress so recently visited that might reflect upon his case.†   (source)
  • Put yourself at the disposition of the revolutionary court.†   (source)
  • You know his inquisitive disposition; he was hopeful that they could be tamed.†   (source)
  • Their captains, no doubt, were muttering a few choice words at this disposition.†   (source)
  • The horse had an erratic disposition but was noted for his speed and wind.†   (source)
  • My long illness damaged my body and worsened my disposition.†   (source)
  • Major Sanderson's disposition seemed to mellow as he reeled off the uncomplimentary adjectives.†   (source)
  • Though my daughter's bones and disposition were pliant, she wept piteously.†   (source)
  • The smile seemed genuine and suggested a better disposition than Helen's.†   (source)
  • Mikil and Johan had tried to lighten his disposition with talk of the dreams, but he quickly reminded them that there was little hope of surviving in the dreams more than a week.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's best this way," Cesar said to Lucky while trying to find something to say to fill the awkward silence that pervaded the wait for news of their disposition.†   (source)
  • That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact.†   (source)
  • We'd just got a nice new boat courtesy of a bunch of Dutchmen of a charitable disposition, and then just after we'd chucked them over the side, a load of our brown chums comes up on us all in a rush, and we had a bit of an argument.†   (source)
  • Our men stood it amazingly well, not even one of them showed a disposition to shrink.†   (source)
  • And it will remain ongoing until I, as primary, am satisfied with its disposition.†   (source)
  • Part of me felt that Russell's disposition was due to Mother's years of psychotic brainwashing, or maybe jealousy that I had escaped her wrath while he and my other brothers remained behind.†   (source)
  • What Amos tells them seems like the happy babbling of a harmlessly deranged man, but babbling nonetheless, and from one who was but a few minutes ago a scientist of serious—if not brooding—disposition.†   (source)
  • Tell me of your dispositions, coz.†   (source)
  • You've no idea whether he intends to join in the fighting himself, or whether he is simply making tactical dispositions?†   (source)
  • She worried that the queen might leave her megaron in order to oversee the disposition of her army.†   (source)
  • Or are you of the same disposition as the Spanish slave dealers?†   (source)
  • Lord Prusias requires men and women of adventurous spirit and noble disposition to aid in the administration of his vast, expanding Kingdom of Blys.†   (source)
  • I had known from the first moment I met him that he was a person of singular resolve and even hardness, particularly when it came to the disposition of what must always be for him the patent, terrible frailty of his patients and others under his care, but I assumed it was his necessary mode, his own way of focus and concentration.†   (source)
  • A disposition like an angel's, Ellen used to say.†   (source)
  • Two fighters stood over him always, and Abu Ahmed—he of the lobster claw and overcast disposition— was never far.†   (source)
  • This temperamental disposition towards an art that was earnest and devoted to things as they are was corroborated by the experience of having been born and brought up in Northern Ireland and of having lived with that place even though I have lived out of it for the past quarter of a century.†   (source)
  • GUIL (returning in time to take it up) : But with much forcing of his disposition.†   (source)
  • Then they called Penn Jones, who came immediately and placed himself at their disposition.†   (source)
  • He writes under this date: "I have observed that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure 'till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like Nature, that conduce very much to the right Understanding of an Author.†   (source)
  • Maybe if patients had two days off each week, like nurses, it would improve their disposition.†   (source)
  • Barthelme took me through the second lab, which was vacant just then, so that I could admire the large, illuminated map of the seas about Andros, beads of light indicating the disposition and well-being of the devices that maintained the sonic 'walls' about the parks and stations.†   (source)
  • But when Reepicheep asked what a disposition was and how you lodged it (Reepicheep thought it was some new way of arranging a single combat) Eustace could only reply, "Fancy not knowing that."†   (source)
  • This probably accounted for the happiness of his marriage, because Aunt Sister had inherited Ida Rebecca's disposition to be a commander of men.†   (source)
  • Obviously my platoon sergeant did not agree with my disposition of the platoon.†   (source)
  • They could smile at themselves as quickly as at anything else, and yet, however sunny their dispositions, their minds raced smoothly on, ingenious and just.†   (source)
  • Siddhartha lost his calmness when losses occurred, lost his patience when he was not payed on time, lost his kindness towards beggars, lost his disposition for giving away and loaning money to those who petitioned him.†   (source)
  • He didn't have a naturally sunny disposition like she did and trips made him nervous.†   (source)
  • You have told us about the dispositions of your Berlin organization, about its personalities and its agents.†   (source)
  • She prepared her mind and her disposition for it as carefully as she dressed for it, and Rufus had seldom seen her forced to consult a shopping list, even if she were doing intricate errands for others.†   (source)
  • You will use your discretion as to the disposition of these forces, and you will terminate or continue their employment under Australian command as you think fit.†   (source)
  • For many years the Lord had pressed Sister McCandless to get up, as she said, and move; but she had been of timid disposition and feared to set herself above others.†   (source)
  • Myself I'm acquainted with only the general idea of their character and disposition, formed after putting two and two together.†   (source)
  • He turned away to make his dispositions.†   (source)
  • "She's a real trouper, and she's got a wonderful disposition."†   (source)
  • Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.†   (source)
  • I guess he has a timid disposition, and you really shook him.†   (source)
  • I have such a delicate disposition, and your scar is so dreadful to look upon ….†   (source)
  • His disposition appears extremely amiable.†   (source)
  • Too large a garrison, in truth, but Lord Emmon had an anxious disposition.†   (source)
  • This disposition may be used effectively against the Federal Government's case in court.†   (source)
  • Happy disposition-yes and no, very serious if mistreated he never forgets.†   (source)
  • I shall overrule Mr. Baldwin's objection regarding the disposition of the negroes.†   (source)
  • A legal battle ensued regarding the disposition of the slaves and the right of salvage.†   (source)
  • He then turned to the questions of the blacks' disposition and their origins.†   (source)
  • Will you give unto me the full disposition of this thing, Creator?†   (source)
  • Aron did not attempt to hide his disposition.†   (source)
  • She is a competent girl, with a cheerful, unfrazzled disposition, and they have lived together easily, though Zahia is now engaged to her boyfriend, Sami, and moving in with him at the end of the semester.†   (source)
  • That she is a woman of quick temper and perhaps not always of a good disposition may be true, but that any of her friends and relatives will believe her to be an amoral woman, or one who would be a party to a criminal act I do not think.†   (source)
  • Either the barbarians stomped the cities or else they got stomped, but you had to start out with the historical disposition of energies and go on from there.†   (source)
  • He never drank very much of it— I never saw him get drunk, not before Basic Training—but Hester remarked that the beer vastly improved his disposition.†   (source)
  • The ideal disposition is one of a kindly, outgoing, tractable nature, eager to please and non-aggressive towards man or animal.†   (source)
  • I wondered why I had ever walked away from a gig that so perfectly fit my disposition to wade into the treacherous waters of magazine management with its bare-bones budgets. relentless advertising pressures, staffing headaches, and thankless behind-the-scenes editing chores.†   (source)
  • And now—in my very own English Department—I must endure a woman of an apparently similar temperament, a woman whose prickly disposition is also upheaved in a sea of sexual contradictions ….†   (source)
  • The English line tends to be smaller and stockier than the American line, with blockier heads and gentle, calm dispositions.†   (source)
  • That for all his sourness, her disposition remained sunny—that she even cheerfully sought the bleacher seats for him, and waved to him only a split second before she died—how insubstantial that must have made her in his eyes!†   (source)
  • Because her complexion was further wrecked by blotchiness in the extreme cold, and because her excessive smoking had ill-influenced her circulation, a weekend of winter skiing in New England—even to forward the cause of her competition for her son's affection—did not favor either Mrs. Lish's appearance or her disposition.†   (source)
  • The savagery with which Noah hit his brother could easily have misled any visitor regarding Noah's truly relaxed disposition and steadily noble character; Noah had learned that striking his brother was a workout requiring patience, deliberation, and strategy—it was no good giving Simon a bloody nose in a hurry; better to hit him where it hurt, but where he didn't bleed easily; better to wear him down.†   (source)
  • He didn't know precisely who knew about the Raison Strain, but the urgency on their faces betrayed the panicked disposition of half a dozen other visitors who'd evidently demanded and received appointments with the world's highest office.†   (source)
  • Emma, thirty-eight, was a green-eyed blonde with a sunny disposition, which more than offset the fact that she wasn't all that pretty in the classic sense.†   (source)
  • I have had some maps prepared to show the dispositions of our foes, their camps and siege lines and trebuchets.†   (source)
  • The number and disposition of your troops; the state of your provisions; the locations of your supply trains; the manner in which you plan to lay siege to this citadel; Eragon and Saphira's duties, habits, and abilities; the Dauthdaert you acquired in Belatona; even the powers of the witch-child, Elva, whom you have kept by your side until but recently—all this I know, and more.†   (source)
  • Horse-drawn wagons came and went, burdened and brimming with materials ordered by the foreman, Williamson, a big, Irish-looking man with florid cheeks, a broad mustache and a surly disposition.†   (source)
  • As the disposition [of the troops] was made and the enemy advancing, we durst not attempt to make any new disposition.†   (source)
  • She would manufacture a beautiful corpse, with the linen shroud and a plush-lined coffin with purple trim. and she would put it at the disposition of the worms with splendid funeral ceremonies.†   (source)
  • One by one, the ministers presented their reports on the distribution of the grain, the consumption of resources, the disposition of the armed forces, and the other vital statistics of her nation.†   (source)
  • He had admired Jefferson's abilities and disposition for so long, Adams told Abigail, that he could not help feel some regret at his leaving.†   (source)
  • The usual Monday afternoon meeting had covered most of what had to be done that week, and nearly everything Padorin was concerned with was now in the hands of his staff for disposition.†   (source)
  • He couldn't see her face or judge her disposition, but he felt a longing to be back on his couch in the jail, where crazy things didn't happen.†   (source)
  • Nasuada and Nar Garzhvog had taken great care in picking the warriors who were to travel with him, selecting only those with a reputation for a quick blade, sound judgment, and, above all, a calm and even disposition.†   (source)
  • Lisa, who'd always been small for her age, had hair the same color as Gabby's and a generally sunny disposition.†   (source)
  • I don't think my bad disposition was to blame for all of it, because I was a good husband, nothing like the hothead I had been when I was a bachelor.†   (source)
  • It was Michaela, the skinny maid with the merry disposition and homely sallow face, and she was waking him up because he had a visitor waiting just outside the door.†   (source)
  • If it were to become known to a spellweaver of evil disposition, he or she could wreak vast amounts of destruction, especially since it would be difficult to stop anyone with access to so much power.†   (source)
  • Until she knew whether this king was friend or foe, Catelyn was not about to reveal the least part of Robb's dispositions.†   (source)
  • Her disposition did suggest some time spent with Indians, but which Indians and how long was anybody's guess.†   (source)
  • I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka yelped and ran out of the medical tent to remonstrate with Sergeant Towser, who edged away from him with repugnance and advised Doc Daneeka to remain out of sight as much as possible until some decision could be reached relating to the disposition of his remains.†   (source)
  • The French were "the happiest people in the world …. and have the best disposition to make others so.†   (source)
  • Andrews kept his. ln the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months.†   (source)
  • "I have sent out some reconnoitering parties to gain intelligence if possible of the disposition of the enemy," he had already reported in a letter to Congress that morning.†   (source)
  • Within, Catelyn found Brienne armoring the king for battle while the Lords Tarly and Rowan spoke of dispositions and tactics.†   (source)
  • Elsewise, the crown is content with whatever dispositions they might make for the governance of the Vale during Robert Arryn's minority."†   (source)
  • Three days past, he had summoned all his captains to a war council aboard the Fury while the fleet lay anchored at the mouth of the Wendwater, in order to acquaint them with his dispositions.†   (source)
  • Pea Eye, who had a jumpy disposition, was always shying from shadows, and he had even blazed away at innocent chaparral bushes on occasion, mistaking them for bandits.†   (source)
  • To what degree she had benefited from her years in France, whether she could reador write, or anything about her disposition or abilities are matters of speculation.†   (source)
  • Under every disadvantage my utmost exertions shall be employed to bring about the great end we have in view, and so far as I can judge from the professions and apparent disposition of my troops, I shall have their support.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, the monotony was broken by some officer or enlisted man Sergeant Towser referred to him on some matter that Major Major was unable to cope with and referred right back to Sergeant Towser for sensible disposition.†   (source)
  • Once shown the proper way to throw a roped animal, they cheerfully flung themselves on whatever the ropers drug up to the branding fire, even if it was a two-year-old bull with lots of horn and a mean disposition.†   (source)
  • Presently he was "much hurried and engaged in arranging and making new dispositions of our forces," he said.†   (source)
  • Still, they shall find, as long as I am in office, candor, integrity, and, as far as there can be any confidence and safety, a pacific and friendly disposition.†   (source)
  • The lady in question had "goodness of heart and gentleness of disposition, as well as spirit and discretion," and would "prove such a daughter as you would wish for your son.†   (source)
  • Mr. Baldwin, the disposition of your clients' condition will comprise a substantial part of this tribunal's inquiry.†   (source)
  • He reported to the learned physician of his own health and disposition, assuring him "my spirits have been as cheerful as they ever were since some sin, to me unknown, involved me in politics."†   (source)
  • The documentation regarding the disposition of the slaves is clear, Your Honor, and sanctioned by Spanish authorities.†   (source)
  • On the Cubans' original bills of sale, on the trespassos, and on other identity documents, the word landinos appeared in each referring to the disposition of the blacks.†   (source)
  • In Franklin's estimate, the "disposition" of the Court to the American cause was as favorable as it had ever been, and Adams came away from these initial discussions feeling even more sanguine.†   (source)
  • On March 2, Silas Deane was appointed a secret envoy to France to go "in the character of a merchant" to buy clothing and arms, and to appraise the "disposition" of France should the colonies declare independence.†   (source)
  • This disposition has been appealed by the government, and thus, ultimately, the rights regarding freedom will have to wait until the Supreme Court issues a final ruling.†   (source)
  • I had my favorites among the young women and spent many of my evenings in their company and this disposition although controlled for seven years after my entrance into college, returned and engaged me too much 'til I was married.†   (source)
  • Your Honor, I move that this case be immediately dismissed on the grounds that the disposition of the Amistad and its cargo are covered under Articles eight through ten of Pickney's Treaty of 1795.†   (source)
  • But the appeal of young women was exceedingly strong, for as an elderly John Adams would one day write, he was "of an amorous disposition" and from as early as ten or eleven years of age had been "very fond of the society of females."†   (source)
  • "Your Honor," Baldwin spoke while rising slowly, "I wonder if the Prosecutor can provide some clarification regarding the government's disposition toward my clients?"†   (source)
  • The "disposition" of trees was of particular importance, and among the trees and lakes were nearly always arranged a variety of classic temples or pavilions, a faux ruin or grotto, all very romantic in spirit, their size and number depending on the wealth or fancy of the client.†   (source)
  • Also notice the form and phraseology employed in these orders not only permits Paine to do so despite the fact that a trial regarding the disposition of the blacks was pending, but also that there was no stipulation that this action of apprehension had to wait until after a decision had been rendered by the district court.†   (source)
  • He traveled the road to Versailles in a state of extreme apprehension, wondering, as he later wrote, whether he was to "hear an expostulation? a reproof? an admonition? or in plain vulgar English, a scolding? or was there any disposition to forget and forgive? and say all malice depart?†   (source)
  • I have felt a disposition to quarrel with him several times, but have restrained myself, and only observed mildly that merit, not titles gave a manpreeminence in our country, that I did not doubt it was a mortifying circumstance to the British nobility to find themselves so often conquered by mechanics and mere husbandmen—but that we esteemed it our glory to draw characters not only into the field, but into the senate, and believed no one would deny but what they had shone in both.†   (source)
  • What heightens the pleasure is their being universally men of unaffected manners and good dispositions.†   (source)
  • Writing from Paris a few days later, before receiving Adams's letter, Jefferson said nothing about a bill of rights, only that there were "things" in the Constitution that "stagger all my dispositions to subscribe" to it.†   (source)
  • The circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper, and the feelings you have discovered so justly adapted to the occasion, that I must say that I not only receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad that the choice has fallen upon you to be their minister.†   (source)
  • He even has an ugly disposition.†   (source)
  • The little town was full of people drifting in and out of doors, saying hello to one another, wearing golden masks and blue masks and crimson masks for pleasant variety, masks with silver lips and bronze eyebrows, masks that smiled or masks that frowned, according to the owners' dispositions.†   (source)
  • But he has never attacked with his real force, and so Eric is troubled, and the disposition of the Crown and Scepter remains uncertain, though Eric holds the one in his right hand.†   (source)
  • We've been there before, and on the same errand; but in previous years our dealings have been with Haha's wife, an iodine-dark Indian woman with brassy peroxided hair and a dead-tired disposition.†   (source)
  • Of course he was very seldom answered; the boys would merely stare at him for a second or so, with the stare turning hot or more often cold, and the girls, depending on age or disposition, either giggled in a way that made him look quickly away, or pretended that they had not even seen or heard him.†   (source)
  • Since time had passed on in the meantime, and the boy remained a stranger and in a gloomy disposition, since he displayed a proud and stubbornly disobedient heart, did not want to do any work, did not pay his respect to the old men, stole from Vasudeva's fruit-trees, then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry.†   (source)
  • A little later she came back with a tray of toast, poached eggs and coffee, arranged them on the bed table, saw that he took two capsules—"Happy pills, to sweeten your disposition"—and went away.†   (source)
  • And you have been told never, never to ask questions of another Comrade on the organization dispositions of the Party?†   (source)
  • "If Charlie is entirely dependent on Allen," Uncle Willie wrote back, "he is certainly not in a position to give rein to a temperamental or neurotic disposition.†   (source)
  • For the much-feared goddess was to be wed with Death, and it was hoped that this would serve to soften both their dispositions.†   (source)
  • He accepted the responsibility laid on him like a mantle by both nature and society, if Hodge's article was right, and, overworked, forever lonely--for all the good humor in his disposition--he preserved his good health by the voluntary self-abandonment of watching television or dancing at the VFW Hall or building mahogany knickknack shelves--he had literally hundreds of them--in his basement.†   (source)
  • But he took a drop from her flask, and though he said it was beastly stuff (the smell in the cabin when she opened it was delicious) it is certain that his face came the right colour a few moments after he had swallowed it, and he must have felt better because, instead of wailing about the storm and his head, he began demanding to be put ashore and said that at the first port he would "lodge a disposition" against them all with the British Consul.†   (source)
  • When her husband's disposition began to disintegrate, causing him to be restless and snappish, to sit staring and then to rush out of the house in a nervous rage, she ascribed it first to his stomach and then to business reverses.†   (source)
  • Then we will make the dispositions for the rest.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, Hastings, I regret that I am of such a moral disposition.†   (source)
  • Those Indians are of a sullen disposition.†   (source)
  • Afterwards, when Chang entered, there was small disposition to continue the squabble.†   (source)
  • AMANDA [absently]: He must have had a jolly disposition.†   (source)
  • Manny came from a high mountain slum and had a cultureless disposition.†   (source)
  • But you've always had a bright disposition, Peter.†   (source)
  • She had a cheerful disposition, too, and a pleasant sense of humour.†   (source)
  • He was of a tyrannical and overbearing disposition and bore a hard hand on the natives.†   (source)
  • Even the two younger boys, still children, showed a vicious disposition.†   (source)
  • Frank, Pitty and the servants bore her outbursts with maddening kindness, attributing her bad disposition to her pregnancy, never realizing the true cause.†   (source)
  • Well, get up, so I told myself, lather yourself, scrape your chin till it bleeds, dress and show an amiable disposition towards your fellow-men.†   (source)
  • You used to have a nice disposition.†   (source)
  • I smiled each day, fighting desperately to maintain my old behavior, to keep my disposition seemingly sunny.†   (source)
  • Thus it had fallen to him to add up the number of deaths during the last few days, and, being of an obliging disposition, he had volunteered to bring a copy of the latest figures to the doctor.†   (source)
  • Now the ancient enemy of man, perceiving little Bernard to be of such wholesome disposition, exerted himself to set traps for his chastity.†   (source)
  • These two are also of the same position, but the Count impressed me as a man of somewhat truculent disposition.†   (source)
  • There would be more stories about how poor the brute was; his age; his evil disposition and his latest caper.†   (source)
  • But father, with his severe love of truth, disbelieved it; he said, in his opinion, this was no genuine Loggan rock; but the natural disposition of ordinary rocks.†   (source)
  • But she procured slaves, among them a yellow coachman named Richard, mild of manner, sensible, and plausible disposition.†   (source)
  • Here the poor roach began fizzing so much, what with its stammer and its tearful disposition, that it became quite inarticulate and could only stare at Merlyn with mournful eyes.†   (source)
  • Every time, they seemed to change their minds and rose up into the air again, because, she thought, the old rook, the father rook, old Joseph was her name for him, was a bird of a very trying and difficult disposition.†   (source)
  • How deep the loneliness into which his life had drifted on account of his disposition and destiny and how consciously he accepted this loneliness as his destiny, I certainly did not know until I read the records he left behind him.†   (source)
  • It would be bad enough to have pale hair and eyelashes and a jutting chin that meant a stubborn disposition, without being twenty years old and an old maid in the bargain.†   (source)
  • Golz had been up to inspect the dispositions for the attack and was on his way to an observation post.†   (source)
  • Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.†   (source)
  • Done been worked tuh death; done had his disposition ruint wid mistreatment, and now they got tuh finish devilin' 'im tuh death.†   (source)
  • Being of an open, talkative disposition, she declared that I was going about the business of living wrongly, that reading books would not help me at all.†   (source)
  • Powers, Thrones, and Dominations might be gathered round, and if Sadie felt like it she would cut loose, and the Boss wasn't precisely of a shrinking disposition.†   (source)
  • Scarlett, standing in the sun in the cotton rows, her back breaking from the eternal bending and her hands roughened by the dry bolls, wished she had a sister who combined Suellen's energy and strength with Carreen's sweet disposition.†   (source)
  • There has been no abnormal movement on the road and I know the dispositions and the habits of this post at the sawmill across the road.†   (source)
  • She was, he says, "of a warm nature, reckless and passionate of disposition, hating all mention of the future (she would never let me mention times to come), agile, resourceful, and cheerful in devising to gratify our appetites, but with a womanly tenderness such as any man might prize at a sanctified hearth-side."†   (source)
  • I read the Steppenwolf treatise through again many times, now submitting gratefully to an invisible magician because of his wise conduct of my destiny, now with scorn and contempt for its futility, and the little understanding it showed of my actual disposition and predicament.†   (source)
  • Never again did I write words like that; I kept them to myself After my father's desertion, my mother's ardently religious disposition dominated the household and I was often taken to Sunday school where I met God's representative in the guise of a tall, black preacher.†   (source)
  • And certain dispositions are found in the universe, according to those thirteen dispositions which depend from that venerable beard, and they are opened out into the thirteen gates of mercies.†   (source)
  • …asking if he, Jack Burden, thought that the enclosures were of any "financial interest" since he, the heir, had heard that libraries sometimes would pay a "fair sum for old papers and antebellum relics and keepsakes" Jack Burden replied that since Cass Mas-tern had been of no historical importance as an individual, it was doubtful that any library would pay more than a few dollars, if anything, for the material, and asked for instructions as to the disposition of the parcel.†   (source)
  • But he had showed a disposition to be courteous, for the first time in their married life, and a desire to let life go on as though there had never been anything unpleasant between them—as though, thought Scarlett, cheerlessly, as though there had never been anything at all between them.†   (source)
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