Unable to assimilate the elements of beauty and grace furnished by more genial races, this mystic and vanished nation was rather prone to the stupendously and minutely practical, than devoted to the beautiful for its own sake.

Are they not prone to perpetual colds in the head, accompanied by loud and labored breathing, and rarely mitigated by the judicious use of pocket-handkerchiefs?

Are they not as prone to bad language as the Tribune, and as noisy and noisome as the Sun itself?

Of the two well known types of mushrooms, the button mushroom is more prone to disease whereas the oyster mushroom is hardier.

To me, they have ever seemed more prone to vent their seditious discontent.

The difficulties of his position, perhaps a lack of sufficient employment, and the want of that instant watchfulness without which the disciple is ever prone to stray from his Master's side, seem to have again produced, as they did twelve months before, a season of spiritual famine.

At my feet a man's figure lay prone in blood-red snow.

Go both, cold comfort shall you finde: My manly shape hath yet a womans minde, Prone to reveale what secret she doth know.

" "How?" "Burnt!" Even the very grave Hannen, my ever-respected friend and junior, smiled; Cresswell, never prone to smile at villainy, smiled also.

Even their descendants are often prone to become perverse.

Perhaps by and by, when you have become enough used to your new home to feel as mischievous as you are prone to be, you will take a fancy to sing to me, 'O, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's old dream.'

With far more acuteness, penetration, and fertility of imagination than are usually given to women, or to men either, she had still in some degree the defect common to her sex, of being prone to confine her views to one side of a question; and to overrule her reason by her feelings and prejudices.

The king's situation, in the beginning of his reign, obliged him to pay great court to Anselm: the advantages which he had reaped from the zealous friendship of that prelate had made him sensible how prone the minds of his people were to superstition, and what an ascendant the ecclesiastics had been able to assume over them.

Solange was prone to be an object of unpleasant inquiries.

It would be a mistake to think them, on that account, insensible or selfish; on the contrary they perhaps feel more keenly than others and are but too prone to blow their brains out in a moment of despair; but, this moment once passed, if they are still alive, they must dine, they must eat, they must drink, as usual; only to melt into tears again at bed-time.

No more she said, When poor blind Ball, with stumbling tread, 30 Fell prone; o'erturned the pannier lay, And her mashed eggs bestrewed the way.

30 The tumbler whirls the flap-flap round, With somersets he shakes the ground; The cord beneath the dancer springs; Aloft in air the vaulter swings; Distorted now, now prone depends, Now through his twisted arms ascends: The crowd, in wonder and delight, With clapping hands applaud the sight.

Of course they have their false gods, as all men that follow one exclusive calling are prone to do.

None can be more pitiful to the distressed, or more prone to succour; and then most where is least means to solicit, least possibility of requital.

To a mind like that of Charles, eager to multiply experiments, and prone to believe improbabilities, the hostile position of these parties opened a new field for intrigue.

Then seeing Christ amid His white million of youths, beautiful singing saints, gold curls and gold aureoles, lifted throats, and form of harp and dulcimer, he fell prone in great bitterness on the misery of earthly life.

In the year of grace 1326, upon Walburga's Eve, some three hours after sunset (thus Nicolas begins), had you visited a certain garden on the outskirts of Valenciennes, you might there have stumbled upon a big, handsome boy, prone on the turf, where by turns he groaned and vented himself in sullen curses.

The little pear-trees, heavy with fruit, lay prone in literal "windrows.

But its victims still lay there, prone, in every possible attitude of complete and overpowering abandonment.

Yet they were prone to early marriages.