When the colonel showed her the lump of sugar, holding it between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand, she again uttered her little wild cry, and sprang toward him; then she stopped, struggling against the
instinctive fear he caused her; she looked at the sugar and turned away her head alternately, precisely like a dog whose master forbids him to touch his food until he has said a letter of the alphabet which he slowly repeats.
Dare devil that you are, full of guile, unwearying in deceit, can you not drop your tricks and your
instinctive falsehood, even now that you are in your own country again?
Even little Alice opened her sweet blue eyes, with her lips apart, and almost held her breath to listen; so
instinctive is the reverence of childhood for the father of his country.
There are regrets, memories, the
instinctive longing for the departed idleness, the
instinctive hate of all work.
In our
instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.
I rose at once to my feet, and my
instinctive impulse was to hurry down to the beach, equally regardless of the distance that separated me from it, and of my disabled condition.
At his first Appearance my Sensibility was wonderfully affected and e'er I had gazed at him a 2d time, an
instinctive sympathy whispered to my Heart, that he was my Grandfather.
roared the object of Roderick's persecution, at the same time giving an
instinctive clutch to his breast.
When she had ascertained, by peeping out several times, that the lady had not seen her, she watched more carefully, all her
instinctive hatred flooding back at the sight of her.
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and
instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
Tess made no reply to this remark, of which, indeed, she did not quite comprehend the drift, unheeding the snub she had administered by her
instinctive rub upon her cheek.
he wondered, puzzled by the effort to reconcile his
instinctive disgust at human vileness with his equally
instinctive pity for human frailty.