Very few English people can stand the intense heat of the Egyptian summer, and Mary Whately being disinclined in 1864 to come so far as to England, spent a short time instead in Syria.

Even now he was exceedingly disinclined to face that obvious necessity.

And for that, now the time was come, and the incognita and he were as much alone as the most ardent lover could wish, he felt singularly disinclined.

" She seemed strangely disinclined for conversation, so her wise parent left her to her meditations and her breakfast.