Their incessant fire, moreover, wasted the strength of the Spaniards; and as both Christian and Mussulman fought with indomitable spirit, it seemed doubtful to which side the victory would incline.

There had been rain during the night, and the cobble-stones of the village street were dark with moisture, slipping under our hob-nailed shoes as we stumbled along down the sharp incline leading to the wharf.

Yet, if but heaven like earth incline to thee, Let my whole body be one eye to see, That not one part of me may miss thy sight! XXIV.

Sir, the misfortune is, that you will insensibly believe as much of it as you incline to believe.

In the first, such a desire of rectitude and amendment as may incline him to hear his own accusation from the mouth of him whom he esteems, and by whom therefore he will always hope that his faults are not discovered; and in the second, such zeal and honesty as will make him content for his friend's advantage to lose his kindness.' Member for Dumfries.

Then, slowly, they started to mount the long hill that began its incline just across the tracks.

Each gondolier had suffered the bows of his boat to incline slightly towards the left shore of the canal, as the jockey is seen, at the starting-post, to turn his courser aside, in order to repress its ardor, or divert its attention.

It is true I am sometimes very flat for want of company; but if I incline to go to Pyrmont, they are always pleased to see me, and would willingly have me always with them.(2 mo. 17, 1823.)

The Friends inquired of the Mennonists whether any of their Society would incline to sit with them on the First-day evening.

Descending the San Lorenzo grade, a sharp incline, Gloriana called our attention to a view panoramic and matchless beneath the glamour of sunset.

From the table we were taken along an upward incline of wooden boxes, which I learned afterward to call a stairway.

One felt the coming crash of a catastrophe, and the presence of a villain; snake-like treason writhed during this night, and none can foresee where the downward slide of a terrible design will stop when events are on a steep incline.

I am bound to take for granted that every man knows his own business best; and I incline more and more to the opinion that military men should be left to work out the problems of their art for themselves, without the advice or criticism of civilians.

I said, 'Leechman seemed to incline to Abernethy's doctrine.'

"I tell you frankly that I incline towards Busby's.

You know my character sufficiently to be sure that it would incline me rather to a noble and bold course.

The sense has generally such a sufficient pause, and will admit of such a punctuation at the close of the second line, and the verse is very often as harmonious too, as if it was calculated for a modern ear: tho' the great number of obsolete words retained would incline us to think the editors had not procured any very extraordinary alteration of the original edition, which we have never seen.

[Footnote 2: I incline to the Q. reading here: 'or is it some trick, and no reality in it?']

Should she ultimately incline towards Florence, and anticipate a good reception from the Grand Duke, do you apprehend that she would be disappointed in her hope?

The fourth column gives the inclination ABS, at which the line of impact must incline toward a plane surface RS, Fig.

Returning to the shore, which now begins to incline more westwardly, we come to another swell of tufa, which has all the characteristic fertility and abruptness of that peculiar formation, a vast and populous town of near half a million of souls being seated, in nearly equal parts, on the limits of the plain and along the margin of the water, or on the hill-sides, climbing to their summits.

I dashed down the incline with a stone in one hand and a long club in the other.

Of another he wrote, when President, to his sister, "If your son Howell is living with you, and not usefully employed in your own affairs, and should incline to spend a few months with me, as a writer in my office (if he is fit for it)

ON A SERMON AGAINST GLORY COME then, tell me, sage divine, Is it an offense to own That our bosoms e'er incline Toward immortal Glory's throne?

In this we can still see their tracks, but we cannot follow them, and therefore we have lost both the wealth and the wisdom, because we would not incline our hearts after their example.