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So that it was as unlike the usual exhibition of one pretty woman affecting to proner another as the friendship of David and Jonathan might be to the intimacy of two Bond Street loungers.

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As certain constitutions of the year alter the blood and lead to fever or cholera, why should not others render the nervous system irritable and proner to derangement?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

That he was proner than most youths to serious meditation

The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

So that it was as unlike the usual exhibition of one pretty woman affecting to proner another, as the friendship of

The Waverley 1877

So that it was as unlike the usual exhibition of one pretty woman affecting to proner another as the friendship of David and Jonathan might be to the intimacy of two Bond Street loungers.

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

So that it was as unlike the usual exhibition of one pretty woman affecting to proner another as the friendship of David and

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

So that it was as unlike the usual exhibition of one pretty woman affecting to proner another as the friendship of David and

Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

Some men are such favourable judges of themselves, that they are proner to accuse the infinite perfection and goodness itself than their own hearts, and imitate their first parents, that said, “The serpent tempted me, and the woman that thou gavest me gave unto me, and I did eat;” — secretly implying that God was the cause.

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live 1615-1691 1795

-- When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims Fran��ois duc de La Rochefoucauld 1646

In their education, therefore, the care must be the greater had of their beginnings, to know, examine, and weigh their natures; which, though they be proner in some children to some disciplines, yet are they naturally prompt to taste all by degrees, and with change.

Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605