On an angle

Usage examples of inclined.

The General was inclined to be explosive and melodramatic, and the German bankers to make a poor mouth about it, but Loeffler was as steadfast as a rock.

We next experimented on nearly a score of radicles by allowing them to grow downwards over inclined plates of smoked glass, in exactly the same manner as with Aesculus and Phaseolus.

But there was also movement in a vertical plane at right angles to the inclined glassplates.

Thin slips of wood were cemented on more or less steeply inclined glassplates, at right angles to the radicles which were gliding down them.

For while Anglo cowhands preferred to fall clear of a cart-wheeling pony when things went wrong, the Mexican vaquero was inclined to be more fatalistic about the possible future, and preferred his ass comfortable in the here and now.

At first sight we should be inclined to think that these little swellings near the tips of the toes would be rather an inconvenience to the anolis, by impeding its movements.

Magister Artium is one of his titles on the College Catalogue, and I like best to speak of him as the Master, because he has a certain air of authority which none of us feel inclined to dispute.

Hommel, the Assyriologist, who is inclined to derive Egyptian civilization entirely from the Babylonian.

I had the same idea: Set up a sort of young artistic bohemian theme park, sprinkled around in all the major cities, where young New Atlantans who were so inclined could congregate and be subversive when they were in the mood.

We are inclined to think that it is a reference to the voyage of Magellan, coupled with an erroneous rendering of the date in the account of Maximilianus Transylvanus: Soluit itaque Magellanus die decimo Augusti, Anno, M.

Not inclined to stop and chat, I took the backstairs down to the whitewashed lower hall, a long basement with shallow windows high in the walls bringing light from outside.

He did not mention their destination, nor why Balam stayed behind, and she was not inclined to ask.

Che hung balkily back at the full stretch of his lead -neither of them had ever managed to train the stupid creature to follow, a failure that in his darker moments Rudy was inclined to attribute to the malice of the Bishop of Gae.

Che hung balkily back at the full stretch of his lead-neither of them had ever managed to train the stupid creature to follow, a failure that in his darker moments, Rudy was inclined to attribute to the malice of the Bishop of Gae.

Situated as it was between Cheston-on-the-Water and greater London, Bentley frequented it often, for the Cat was the sort of place one could get a clean, louse-free bed and, if a man were so inclined, a clean, louse-free bedmate to warm it.