It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions.
Death and other striking dispositions, such as feminine trustfulness, had come; and Bulstrode would have adopted Cromwell's words—"Do you call these bare events?
It is so, with testamentary dispositions.
" Miss Brooke argued from words and dispositions not less unhesitatingly than other young ladies of her age.
There, such as were not as spotless as an angel might have the dispositions of a fiend.
A mechanical and mathematical genius, Zhuge is credited with inventing a bow for shooting several arrows at once and with perfecting the Eight Dispositions, a series of military tactics.
Science has already proved that sunny days can lead to sunny dispositions, helping improve a person's mood, intelligence and memory -- and researchers in China have now shed light on why.
If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar before-hand, it does not advance their felicity in the least.
In addition to sunnier skies, spring has a way of bringing about sunnier dispositions — and that's never more true than for those who are spring babies.
A mechanical and mathematical genius, Zhuge is credited with inventing a bow for shooting several arrows at once and with perfecting the Eight Dispositions, a series of military tactics.
Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03 I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
