Avoid as much as you can, in mixed companies, argumentative, polemical conversations; which, though they should not, yet certainly do, indispose for a time the contending parties toward each other; and, if the controversy grows warm and noisy, endeavor to put an end to it by some genteel levity or joke. ❋ Unknown (2005)
“What circumstances can possibly indispose you to give your law business to Mr. Darch?” ❋ Unknown (2003)
Grace comes to alter our natural dispositions, that are unsuited to love, and indispose us for it. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
Indeed, at or near this time there were three particular occurrences which, when taken together, might well disturb the serenity and cheerfulness of her mind, and indispose her for writing -- especially writing of a humorous character. ❋ Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh (N/A)
Brigade of Infantry as it issued, about 10 a.m., from among the trees of Les Amusoires, may have been a moral factor in itself sufficient to indispose the German outposts to remain longer upon the outskirts of ❋ Geoffrey Keith Rose (N/A)
It is possible, that in my own country, these strictures might produce an irritation, which would indispose the people towards (one of) the two great objects I have in view; that is, the emancipation of their slaves. ❋ Various (N/A)
It is matter of familiar remark that the tendency of warm climates is to relax the human constitution and indispose to labor. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)
Years and infirmities may indispose him to enter on a mighty war; but he thinks more of his dynasty than of himself, his ambition being to found a reigning house. ❋ Various (N/A)
Lents, and weekly Fasts, indispose if they do not disable their labouring Poor to Work as much as their Wants require; the spiritual ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Fox also attempted to prove that the accession of his majesty to the Germanic confederation, as Elector of Hanover, would give mortal offence to the Emperor Joseph, and would indispose him to an alliance with Great ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)
Independently of the time actually occupied by a wine-party, any excess will, probably, indispose you for study the morning after; ❋ Edward Berens (N/A)
Nor ought the humble condition of the oppressed to indispose him to grant them a hearing; for the doctrine they professed was not their own, but that of the Almighty himself. ❋ Henry Martyn Baird (N/A)
It is possible that, in my own country, these strictures might produce an irritation which would indispose the people toward the two great objects I have in view; that is, the emancipation of their slaves, and the settlement of their constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis. ❋ William Frederick Poole (N/A)
You are now, by the accustoming of his tender years, to indispose him to those inconveniences as much as you can; and it will be no small advantage, that contrary practice having made sitting up uneasy to him, it will make him often avoid, and very seldom propose midnight-revels. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Is it not probable that, lively and cheerful as she was in manner, she had that deep silent sorrow at her heart, which could not but indispose her to the exertion of writing, perhaps even paralysed the faculty of invention? ❋ Unknown (1901)
The majority of the persons who entered into a circle were ready to believe any extraordinary thing that came to them, and the inanity of the general proceedings, even when fraud was excluded, was sufficient to indispose serious people to take part in them. ❋ Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 (1901)
For my part, I recognised the impossibility of starting the subject: an uncalled-for interference from me would merely indispose Mr. Oke, and make him doubly dense of comprehension. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
I did not wish to indispose him still further by an appearance of marked curiosity. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
The religion of Sully also tended to indispose the Queen towards him. ❋ Pardoe, Julia (1890)
Sorry I couldn't answer [your call]. I was [indisposed] [at the moment]. ❋ Dudical Dude (2009)
