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  • Indisposed at the moment, Im afraid, the man replied.

    Cruel Intent J.A. Jance 2008

  • Indisposed, unwell: “The day after the big party, Jay had to call in sick, saying he was feeling under the weather.

    under the weather 2002

  • Indisposed as I was, older than himself, longer acquainted in the house than he had been, the person who had introduced him there, and to whom as a favorite of the lady he ought to have done the honors of it, he suffered me to sup at the end of the table, at a distance from the fire, without showing me the least civility.

    The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

  • Indisposed to quarrel, and possessed of small skill in verbal fence,

    Born in Exile George Gissing 1880

  • Indisposed to hesitate, and full of impatient impulses -- soul and senses quivering with keen throes -- I put it back and looked in.

    Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848

  • Indisposed to the uncertainty of a night-action, he declined bringing it on, and the lights disappeared from his ports an hour later; at that time the English ships, by carrying sail harder than was usual in so stiff a breeze, found themselves out of gun-shot, on the weather-bow of their enemies.

    The Two Admirals James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Indisposed as I was, older than himself, longer acquainted in the house than he had been, the person who had introduced him there, and to whom as favorite of the lady he ought to have done the honors of it, he suffered me to sup at the end of the table, at a distance from the fire, without showing me the least civility.

    The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782

  • Indisposed as I was, older than himself, longer acquainted in the house than he had been, the person who had introduced him there, and to whom as a favorite of the lady he ought to have done the honors of it, he suffered me to sup at the end of the table, at a distance from the fire, without showing me the least civility.

    The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Volume 09 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745

  • Indisposed as I was, older than himself, longer acquainted in the house than he had been, the person who had introduced him there, and to whom as a favorite of the lady he ought to have done the honors of it, he suffered me to sup at the end of the table, at a distance from the fire, without showing me the least civility.

    The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745

  • Christian virtuoso: Shewing, That by being addicted to Experimental Philosophy, a Man is rather Assisted, than Indisposed, to be a Good Christian ..

    Mick Hartley 2009

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