inclining

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Yes, slanderers falsed my words, and thou to them * Inclining,      madest spite and envy grow.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Inclining my body to the left, I turned my horse in that direction as sharply as his speed would permit.

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis

Inclining with his main force to the right, the Adelantado met, not far from the river, the cacique Behechio, with a great army of his subjects, armed with bows and arrows and lances.

From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Irving, Washington

Inclining more to one side than the other, crooked, all o' one hugh.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

Inclining his course westwardly from the Nacoochee valley, De Soto set out for Guaxule, which marked the limit of the queen's dominion, and which has been identified as Old Town, in Murray County.

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler