| 1. | He had a decided propensity for bullyin. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 3. | I was conscious, even when I took the draught, of a more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 4. | Elton, even in the days of his favour, none had disturbed her more than his propensity to dine with Mr. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 5. | A propensity to be saucy was one and a perverse will, that indulged children invariably acquire, whether they be good tempered or cross. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 6. | There was excellent blood in his veins--royal stuff though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity he nourished in his untutored youth. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | No one who trustingly consults and thoroughly questions his own soul, will be disposed to deny the entire radicalness of the propensity in question. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 8. | Then, it is true, the propensity of human nature to tell the very worst of itself, when embodied in the person of another, would constrain them to whisper the black scandal of bygone years. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 9. | It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have mentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who resides there for a time. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |