Inclines

The world, in short, inclines to appear an ill-lit mine, wherein one quarries gingerly amidst an abiding loneliness (as with Pope and Ufford and Sire Raimbaut) -- and wherein one very often is allured into unsavory alleys (as with Herrick and Alessandro de Medici) -- in search of that raw material which loving labor will transshape into comeliness. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The idea of the Pyrenees is very charming, and I do not wonder Mrs. Malkin inclines thither, though I remember that when I was there, great as was my admiration for them, I felt rather as I was guilty of infidelity to the Alps all the time and made haste back to the latter, with something of penitence in delight at being once more upon my mountains. ❋ Unknown (1891)

But St. Martin inclines to agree with Gibbon, note, vi. ❋ Unknown (1206)

-- not too hilly/mountainous because walking long distances or up too many inclines is difficult ❋ Unknown (2003)

The world, in short, inclines to appear an ill-lit mine, wherein one quarries gingerly amidst an abiding loneliness (as with Pope and Ufford and Sire Raimbaut) -- and wherein one very often is allured into unsavory alleys (as with Herrick and ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

That kind of inclines me to go back at least once more to vote again. ❋ Julieandrews (2010)

Schenley Park with thoroughness, investigated several of the "inclines" which carried passengers from the river level to the top of the heights above, motored among the handsome residences and ended, on the way to the station, with a flying visit to the old blockhouse which is all that is left of Port Pitt. ❋ Unknown (1903)

For highly observant fundamentalist Americans, their theology inclines them toward skepticism about human nature, but their frequent church attendance somehow moves them to a more optimistic view. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

High up where Highway 200 snakes above the cliffs, Frida clings to the tree clad mountainsides as over and over again she pants up innumerable steep inclines and breathlessly swoops down the other side. ❋ Unknown (2009)

London during the interwar period, as depicted in Jacqueline Winspear's eighth Maisie Dobbs novel, "A Lesson in Secrets" Harper, 323 pages, $25.99 , is a place where the Royal Automobile Club thoughtfully posts men with water cans at the top of steep inclines to aid motorists whose car engines have overheated. ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)

The train moved slowly up the steep inclines through dense forest shrouded in silence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The high school laps have had some staggering inclines and torturous descents, but neither my husband nor I have dropped out of the parenthood race, even when taking the next breath seemed impossible. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

Not everyone has time to, or are inclines to, do in depth research on a subject. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Fairmont Southampton Fairmont Southampton Golf Course The golf course was designed by Theodore Robinson and meanders across a procession of steep inclines, with a series of bunkers and lakes. ❋ William Lyons (2011)

Their pantry was the last stop on our list, and to get there, you have to drive up curving mountain roads, winding bends, and steep inclines with barely enough room to squeeze one car through, let alone a truck. ❋ Amy Guerrieri (2011)

Something in my experience as an archivist inclines me to resist the deliberately antiquarian aesthetic impulse these images manifest, yet I am pulled by it nonetheless. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)