...And the strength of my rage carried me so far as where the horse stood, and then I fell prone beside it...
Anthony Hope 「The Prisoner of Zenda」
... Peter Blood judged her—as we are all too prone to judge—upon insufficient knowledge...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...Lying prone, he advanced his head and peered down...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...The natives are justas prone to perpetuate Zambezi or Lufira in Africa as we are to multiplyour Avons and Ouses in England...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...She was not prone to fear, but thedoctor dropped some word, like corruption of the blood, scarlatina, orelse—heaven help us—diphtheria, and off she went...
Leo Tolstoy 「The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories」
...A dog—especially a collie—that does notknow sheep, is prone to consider them his lawfulprey, in other words, the sight of a sheep hasturned many an otherwise law-abiding dog intoa killer...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...There existsno creature more liable to disorder, and in which disease is prone toassume a more virulent or a more complicated form...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...Full grown boars being often savage anddifficult to tame, and prone to attack men and animals, should bedeprived of their tusks...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...Almost at the very summit, within a rod ortwo of the point where the crest would intervene between him and hisfoes, Bruce whirled in mid-air and fell prone...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Bruce」
...Sofar, his attitude had been best describableas that of the prone position...
Major Gambier-Parry 「'Murphy'」
...Do not, if you please, confound reason with intelligence, as people are too prone to do...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...She was a warm-hearted, loving, undisciplined girl; prone to do thingson the impulse of the moment which she would afterward deeply regret...
Lucy Foster Madison 「Bee and Butterfly」
...In comparing man and animals scientists are prone to ascribe to man as awhole the faculties which only the best trained and most talentedpossess...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
...We are so prone to mix up everything we get, inthis country, that it is sometimes difficult to get anything exactly asit should be; but a little care will provide us, in this particular...
Lewis Falley Allen 「Rural Architecture」
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