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• An impulse? (10)
• If only he could act on an impulse! (8)
• Redworth had his impulse. (10)
• Lowell had no impulse to stir. (14)
• Obeying an impulse, Harz went in. (8)
• Nay, I followed my paternal impulse. (10)
• No one seems able to fathom your impulse. (12)
• By some childish impulse Fleur unbuttoned it. (8)
• She might have an impulse to bathe her feet. (10)
• Rhoda could not control the impulse to cry it out. (10)
• He checked that impulse also, and more sovereignly. (10)
• My first impulse was not to make myself known to him. (6)
• He stopped, and then went on from a different impulse. (9)
• Acting forthwith on the hot impulse, he seized the lamp. (10)
• But no vestige of impulse towards work came to him down there. (8)
• So it was the right thing prompted on the impulse of the moment. (10)
• And following a sudden impulse George touched him on the shoulder. (8)
• Obeying a sudden impulse to see more clearly, Bianca lifted her veil. (8)
• A sudden impulse of sheer womanliness caused a tear to fall on his hand. (8)
• Her father started higher than the nervous impulse warranted in his chair. (10)
• The throb of the impulse precipitating speech subsided to a dumb yearning. (10)
• He came both on a mission from the Privy Councillor and of his own impulse. (12)
• I resisted; it was the impulse of the moment to resist, and still walked on. (4)
• An impulse of double-minded acquiescence caused Clara to stammer as on a sob. (10)
• In his fright he turned his eyes away, and resisted the impulse to look again. (12)
• Or else the impulse to protect the woman of his heart and soul was too strong. (10)
• Every impulse to love dalliance, she felt, must shrink before this great sorrow. (5)
• Soames, who still held her hand, was overcome by an impulse which surprised him. (8)
• She gazed round on the farm, under a quick new impulse of affection for her old home. (10)
• She gazed round on the farm, under a quick new impulse of affection for her old home. (22)
• In compensation for his prudence in regard to the Dryfooses he now indulged an impulse. (9)
• The impulse to think the best of what we are on the point of renouncing is spontaneous. (10)
• Modern gentlemen are not so formal; they are creatures of impulse and take a pride in it. (10)
• She felt not the impulse of the breeze; she was never harnessed to the patent track-horse. (2)
• Triscoe nervously crushed a biscuit in his hand, as if to expend a violent impulse upon it. (9)
• The impulse of the romantic movement in music is far from being exhausted at the present day. (3)
• When Mrs. Lander had once imagined the move, the nomadic impulse mounted irresistably in her. (9)
• There was no stirring of anger in him, no impulse to clench his fist and break down the door. (12)
• He suddenly remembered the moment in which the impulse to murder the machine had come upon him. (12)
• Lennan had an almost overwhelming impulse to turn on his heel and leave the young man standing there. (8)
• Mrs. Pasmer had an impulse to call her daughter back, and to make some excuse to keep her from going. (9)
• The strange blush prompted an impulse in Redworth to speak to her at once of his venture in railways. (10)
• Accident, the intricate web of fate, gives them their fit soil, their heat, their germinating impulse. (13)
• The impulse of each had wedded; in expression and repression; her sensibility told her of the stronger. (10)
• And, yielding to a swift impulse, he put his arms round her, pressed her to him, and kissed her forehead. (8)
• You will come to me, I assure you; and you will come not only when I summon you, but of your own impulse. (12)
• If I had written I should have clipped my glorious impulse, brought myself down to earth with my own arrow. (10)
• Ashurst took them, small, rough, brown; checked his impulse to put them to his lips, and let her pull him up. (8)
• Quelling her first impulse to scream, she dropped him gently on the pillow, and rapped to rouse up her maid. (10)
• Quelling her first impulse to scream, she dropped him gently on the pillow, and rapped to rouse up her maid. (22)
• But people have come to seek me out for so many years that I have lost the impulse and ability to go to them. (12)
• She became breathless, without emotion, but checked by the barrier confronting an impulse to ask, what changes? (10)
• Sometimes we can tell which impulse is likely to be the most active, and which principle the least restraining. (10)
• He took her hand with eager friendliness, and at her impulse began to move away to the end of the piazza with her. (9)
• The impulse I had been having to press on her the money, died within me; I felt suddenly it would be another insult. (8)
• The tall man fighting such odds excited his unwilling admiration; he had a momentary impulse to go to his assistance. (8)
• Nothing but a sense of duty kept me from rushing out of London, and I might have indulged the impulse advantageously. (10)
• If I were to act upon my own impulse, my own convictions, I should send her the rest of the story and take the chances. (9)
• His Austrian delight in feminine charm and his impulse to do homage to it scattered the fog of his egotistical vexation. (12)
• He dodged beneath the fire line and began to run toward the east end, driven by a wild impulse that he could not control. (13)
• Her true heart and her clear mind would have been infallible in the affair, and he had trusted to his own muddled impulse. (9)
• I suppose we must all allow, whether we like to do so or not, that the impulse seems now to have pretty well spent itself. (9)
• We inquired as to every impulse, the noblest, the holiest in effect, and he found them in the last analysis of selfish origin. (9)
• Or was it just some vague longing to please him by a show of affection toward his family, an unmeditated impulse of reparation? (9)
• But when his eyes had become accustomed to the semi-darkness of the room and he saw the emaciated face, his mocking impulse fled. (12)
• It was sheer anger, not disapproval of her impulse, that made him hesitate; money and revenge would never be associated in his mind. (8)
• He gave her a grateful, furtive look, and went back to his guest; an impulse had made him hide from her the true condition of affairs. (8)
• But if the humanitarian impulse has mostly disappeared from Christmas fiction, I think it has never so generally characterized all fiction. (9)
• He was a worthy man, having within him the spiritual impulse curiously ready to take the place where a material disappointment left vacancy. (10)
• The affectionately remorseful impulse was too quick for a conventional note of admonition to arrest her from paying that portion of her debt. (10)
• When one really takes to foreigners, there is a peculiar impulse (I speak of the people who are accessible to impulse) to make brothers of them. (10)
• Almost in the first germinal impulse the inventive mind forefeels the ultimate difference and recognizes the essential simplicity or complexity of the motive. (9)
• In some sense every European literature is a condition of some other European literature, yet the impulse in each eventuates, if it does not originate indigenously. (9)

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