...Others attribute the consent of the assembly toa sentiment of submission alone; which, indeed, in the presence ofabsolute power, is apt to absorb every other...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...Apt scholar that he was, they were equally apt teachers,never allowing him to linger long in error, and enforcing their teaching withtheir sharp teeth...
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
... “Monsieur, there are things that must be guessed; and you, above all, are apt to guess them...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...de La Tour d’Azyr too apt for mere coincidence, a direct challenge in itself...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Living inthe trenches, you are apt to get your horizon narrowed down to the front lineof enemy barbed wire on one side and the nearest rest billets on the other...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...The authorities are afraid of him, for he’s apt to talk wild, hishealth having made him peevish about the British...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Don’t you, sir? Whenever things get really excitin’, theengine’s apt to quit work and take a rest...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...The fish are runnin' smaller an' smaller, an' you've took baout as logy a halibut's we're apt to find this trip...
Rudyard Kipling 「"Captains Courageous"」
... "We're all apt to be mistaken...
Rudyard Kipling 「"Captains Courageous"」
...But don’t use false hair if you can help it—it is apt to shift in a scrimmage...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...Hence, if others did not think precisely as he did, when he conversed with them on the subject, he was apt to go out of due bounds...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...The Makololo are apt to get into trouble by their propensity to lift cattle; for if their marauding is sanctioned by the chief, they do not look upon it as dishonourable...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...We are far too apt to exaggerate both in our disparagement and in ourpraise of backward people...
Peter Nielsen 「The Black Man's Place in South Africa」
...Our acquaintance with the oldest explorations is at present fragmentary, and we are apt to assume that the little told us in our school-books is the sum-total of former exploits...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...Many of the people also had small family idols which they worshipped much in the same manner; but if they did not obtain what they wanted from the idol, they were very apt to send it away in disgrace...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
... "Would your owner be apt to pursue you?" said a member of the Committee...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
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