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It may be traced remotely, in some degree, to the distrust of American railway securities in Europe which attended the reckless administration of the Erie Railway under Fisk and Gould, and which lingered after their overthrow, indisposing capitalists, as well as small investors, to have anything to do with American railways.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

Four motives appear to me to have been puissant in indisposing

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

The theological romanticism of Lacordaire and of Montalembert was not much more appreciated by them, the dogmatic ignorance and the very weak reasoning powers of this school indisposing them against it.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

He finds the pampered spirit of self-indulgence still asking for ease, and indisposing him to victory.

Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876

If there were no other indisposing causes, Pluck himself expressly forbade the practice, and trained his children to very different habits and feelings.

Margaret 1851

Ah me, that a man be self-subsistent, original, true, or what we call it, is surely the farthest in the world from indisposing him to reverence and believe other men's truth!

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

When sorrow is indisposing, it untunes the heart for prayer, meditation, holy conference; it cloisters up the soul.

The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 1653

This impatience of continued application to work, which is common to all opium-eaters, and which does not cease with the abandonment of the habit, seems to result in the first case from some specific relation between the drug and the meditative faculties, promoting a state of habitual reverie and day-dreaming, utterly indisposing the opium-user for any occupation which will disturb the calm current of his thoughts, and in the other, proceeding from the direct disorder of the nervous organization itself.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

They proceeded onward: the earthly Paradise was unfolded to their view; the air was balmy, and laden with rich fragrance from the numberless flowers around; but instead of filling the spirit with soft languor, and indisposing the body to exertion, the gentle breezes imparted new vigor to the frame, and the buoyant, hilarious feelings of early youth shot through the veins, making the thoughtful eye sparkle, and giving to the grave foot of saddened maturity the elasticity of childhood.

Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins