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inclining
1. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it
2. He lowered his head closer to her, inclining his ear toward her lips
3. “Good morning, Miss Steepleton,” he responded formally, inclining slightly his head
4. “Yours, all yours,” she moaned, inclining her head to offer more of herself
5. They are silent, but not somber—they smile at the Amity they pass, inclining their heads, a few of them stopping to exchange pleasantries
6. ground gradually inclining as they walked between houses of
7. inclining to evil, 23 have rejected the inestimable rights
8. Through four of these come winds of blessing and prosperity, and from those eight come hurtful winds: when they are sent, they bring destruction on all the Earth and on the water on it, and on all who dwell thereon, and on everything which is in the water and on the land; And the first wind from those portals, called the east wind, comes out through the first portal which is in the east, inclining towards the south: from it come out desolation, drought, heat, and destruction; And through the second portal in the middle comes what is fitting, and from it there come rain and fruitfulness and prosperity and dew; and through the third portal which lies toward the north come cold and drought; And after these come out the south winds through three portals: through the first portal of them inclining to the east comes out a hot wind; And through the middle portal next to it there come out fragrant smells, and dew and rain, and prosperity and health; And through the third portal lying to the west come out dew and rain, locusts and desolation; And after these the north winds: from the seventh portal in the east come dew and rain, locusts and desolation; And from the middle portal come in a direct direction health and rain and dew and prosperity; and through the third portal in the west come cloud and hoar-frost, and snow and rain, and dew and locusts; And after these four are the west winds: through the first portal adjoining the north come out dew and hoar-frost, and cold and snow and frost; And from the middle portal come out dew and rain, and prosperity and blessing; and through the last portal which adjoins the south come out drought and desolation, and burning and destruction; And the twelve portals of the four quarters of the Heaven are therewith completed, and all their laws and all their plagues and all their benefactions have I shown to you, my son Methuselah
9. Pressing on the ignition button, I glance at a grinning Zachary, my ears inclining to the sound of the engine
10. Through four of these come winds of blessing and prosperity and from those eight come hurtful winds: when they are sent they bring destruction on all the Earth and on the water on it and on all who dwell thereon and on everything which is in the water and on the land; And the first wind from those portals called the east wind comes out through the first portal which is in the east inclining towards the south: from it come out desolation drought heat and destruction; And through the second portal in the middle comes what is fitting and from it there come rain and fruitfulness and prosperity and dew; and through the third portal which lies toward the north come cold and drought; And after these come out the south winds through three portals: through the first portal of them inclining to the east comes out a hot wind; And through the middle portal next to it there come out fragrant smells and dew and rain and prosperity and health; And through the third portal lying to the west come out dew and rain locusts and desolation; And after these the north winds: from the seventh portal in the east come dew and rain locusts and desolation; And from the middle portal come in a direct direction health and rain and dew and prosperity; and through the third portal in the west come cloud and hoar-frost and snow and rain and dew and locusts; And after these four are the west winds: through the first portal adjoining the north come out dew and hoar-frost and cold and snow and frost; And from the middle portal come out dew and rain and prosperity and blessing; and through the last portal which adjoins the south come out drought and desolation and burning and destruction; And the twelve portals of the four quarters of the Heaven are therewith completed and all their laws and all their plagues and all their benefactions have I shown to you my son Methuselah
11. With their innate malignity they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil 23 have rejected the inestimable rights
12. “You need it after that fellow,” he continued, inclining his head towards George who was now engrossed in conversation in the farthest corner of the bar
13. the risk/return line would change in proportion to the change in the market - inclining
14. Once you start to have an inclining, find activities you can participate in to see
15. Had there been no inscription, that is to say, no printing the creatures would have stood baffled doing nothing, inclining to nothing and knowing nothing
16. Had there been no inscription – that is to say, no printing onto the pages of the spirit – the creatures would have stood around in bafflement, doing nothing, inclining to nothing, and knowing nothing
17. "and no store it shall enter but ruins it": that is: it corrupts the heart of the store's owner who turns inclining to amusement and impudence, and seeks to achieve his purposes and desires by getting winnings exceeding the humane extent
18. Only by performing this communication and reaching this state can the spirit be prevented from inclining to the worldly life and the mean desires that it contains
19. “I wish you a safe journey,” Aazuria said, inclining her head slightly in gratitude
20. She moved forward and slipped her arms around his waist, inclining her head upwards to kiss him
21. consideration that if it is mass that produces an inclining force of contraction as Newton says then…when
22. Why then, when considering that if it is mass that produces an inclining force of contraction as Newton
23. directs the object to follow an inclining line of 21
24. Gravity is the inclining of material spinning
25. The natural inclining is in the form of the sphere
26. “It would seem then that there is reason to believe that the future can still have a fruitful outcome after all,” Rolf said, inclining his head slightly in a bow to me
27. Waves appeared, then a shining energy beam burst forth from his hand in a straight line, inclining only slightly
28. any way, but for a nose inclining to the Roman, eyes large, black, and
29. They had made their little circuit to the left, and were already inclining again toward the right, having, as Heyward thought, got over nearly half the distance to the friendly works, when his ears were saluted with the fierce summons, apparently within twenty feet of them, of:
30. "What are your orders, gracious Fairy?" he asked, inclining his
31. nobler in the mind to suffer, some roared yes, and some no, and some inclining to both opinions said "Toss up for it;" and quite a Debating Society arose
32. Her figure was slight and graceful, inclining even to fragility but those iron jelloids she had been taking of late had done her a world of good much better than the Widow Welch's female pills and she was much better of those discharges she used to get
33. scoffer,—"Great city," murmured he, inclining his head, and joining his hands as if in prayer, "less than six months have elapsed since first I entered thy gates
34. I think you should rather say, It shows itself by inclining the soul to abhor its sin
35. Coming then into my chamber, and seeing me lie alone, with my face turned from the light towards the inside of the bed, he, without more ado, just slipped off his breeches, for the greater ease and enjoyment of the naked touch; and softly turning up my petticoats and shift behind, opened the prospect of the back avenue to the genial seat of pleasure; where, as I lay at my side length, inclining rather face downward, I appeared full fair, and liable to be entered
36. "It is all the work of Gamacho and his Nationals;" and then, inclining his head on his left shoulder, would press together his lips so firmly that a little hollow would appear at each corner
37. Meantime, he had deviated from the straight course, inclining by a sort of instinct to the right, towards the jetty and the harbour, the scene of his daily labours
38. Tess's excitable heart beat against his by way of reply; and there they stood upon the red-brick floor of the entry, the sun slanting in by the window upon his back, as he held her tightly to his breast; upon her inclining face, upon the blue veins of her temple, upon her naked arm, and her neck, and into the depths of her hair
39. Tess saw her three chamber-mates in a row against the wall, pensively inclining their heads
40. Garth, which had of late become more frequent, the increasing ardor of his affection for Mary inclining him the more towards those who belonged to her
41. “Just arrived?” she said, inclining her head
42. “Madam,” he said, inclining his head toward her, “you have my sincere condolences
43. If I did simply follow my inclining I would do now, at this moment, what is to be done
44. RAX had an ugly earnings report and was coming into key support at its inclining 200 day moving average as well as price support
45. The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; this old Fleece, as they called him, came shuffling and limping along, assisting his step with his tongs, which, after a clumsy fashion, were made of straightened iron hoops; this old Ebony floundered along, and in obedience to the word of command, came to a dead stop on the opposite side of Stubb's sideboard; when, with both hands folded before him, and resting on his two-legged cane, he bowed his arched back still further over, at the same time sideways inclining his head, so as to bring his best ear into play
46. “Don't mention it,” said Samsonov, inclining his head
47. The general expressed neither satisfaction nor dissatisfaction at Nekhludoff's request, but, inclining his head to one side, seemed to reflect
48. “Madame, I doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, smilingly inclining his head
49. A tight vessel, cylindrically shaped, was first employed, containing rosin, connected with a small boiler by a pipe which entered near the bottom, and extended nearly its length, having small apertures, over which were two inverted gutters, inclining or sloping upwards over each other; the upper one longer than the other, intended to detain the steam in the rosin, in its way to the surface
50. Its strata are almost perpendicular, inclining a few degrees to the west