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My morning's experience of Miss Halcombe had predisposed me to be pleased with everybody in the house; but my sympathies shut themselves up resolutely at the first sight of Mr. Fairlie.

From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie

The extreme dejection of spirits, consequent upon her persecuted loneliness, had predisposed her to disease in the first place, and aggravated its character when it came.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various

He was young and susceptible; and the excited state of his feelings, from wandering among the abodes of departed grace and gallantry, had predisposed him for a sudden impression from female beauty.

From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington

He remembers that portrait on the wall at Albuquerque, and how it had predisposed him in favour of the original.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

The general opinion he had always entertained of Richard's character had predisposed him to fear, even before the inquiry respecting the Insurance shares.

From Ruth by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn