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Sentences starting with impulse

Impulse prompted her to tell her uncle what had happened; but at the first step she paused, and her thin lips uttered a firm "No. [10]
Impulse urged her to kiss the sufferer, but as she bent over the mourner the copper dish slipped from her knees and fell rattling on the floor. [10]
Impulse was written in every feature, in the passionate eagerness of her body; yet the line from the forehead to the chin, and the firm shapeliness of the chin itself, gave promise of great strength of will. [11]
Impulse had brought him thus far, but now he stood staring helplessly at a row of bells, speaking tubes, and cards. [9]
Impulse quickened his footsteps now. [11]

Sentences ending with impulse

I was bored with myself; and I had some purpose in coming, or I should not have had the impulse. [11]
I think it will be difficult for you to find any thought of self in that impulse. [5]
He had an uncontrollable impulse. [11]
She seemed about to retort, and then to conquer the impulse. [9]
I was going to buy a paper-cutter, but I believed I could remember the cold comfort of the Rigi-Kulm without it, so I smothered the impulse. [5]
So early as this I noticed that there were signs of commencing thickening in the heart, as shown by the degree and extent of its impulse. [6]
I, too, am their lord; but"--and he laughed bitterly--"who has ever raised a hand in prayer for me of his own impulse? [10]
I acted on the latter impulse. [5]
He had a sudden impulse. [11]
In him the shrewdness of a strong intelligence was mingled with wild impulse. [11]

Short sentences using impulse

Mr. Brice's impulse was flight. [9]
Then another impulse seized her. [10]
That impulse was reasonable. [2]
An impulse seized him. [11]
Her first impulse held, however. [11]
Warner felt the general impulse. [4]

Sentences containing impulse two or more times

My first feeling was of surprised gratification; my first impulse was an apprentice-sportsman's impulse to run and pick up his game. [5]
I understand your position, Isabel, and that you're really acting from a generous impulse, but there's nothing so precarious at our time of life as a generous impulse. [8]
The impulse which moves a person to do things--the only impulse that ever moves a person to do a thing. [5]
Jonathan seems to hold (as against the Arminian position) that the Man (or his Soul or his Will) never creates an impulse itself, but is moved to action by an impulse back of it. [5]
Nay, more, if Henderson had at this moment made by letter a proposal for her hand, her impulse would have been to repudiate the offer as unjustified by anything that had taken place, and she would no doubt have obeyed that impulse. [4]
He could distinguish even the hairs on the rat and suddenly another impulse came over him--the impulse to stoop down and catch the long-tailed vermin in his beak and claws. [10]
I could complete all of them in less than a year, if the impulse should come powerfully upon me: Long, long ago money-necessity furnished that impulse once, ("Following the Equator"), but mere desire for money has never furnished it, so far as I remember. [5]

More example sentences with the word impulse in them

But when he yielded to the impulse to read Wolff's letter again he felt like a dethroned prince whom some stranger, ignorant of his misfortune, praises for his mighty power. [10]
She could not yet feel any impulse of affection towards her, and she did not as yet understand that what was required of her was the one gift which the best will, the most loving heart in the world, could not offer at a command. [10]
One has to write according to the impulse that seizes one and after the fashion of one's own mind. [11]
They were her world, and her sole pleasure was to satisfy the compassionate impulse in her own breast by severe toil, by tender solicitude, by night watching, and by exertions often continued to actual suffering. [10]
Nothing in the world could have made the impulse which moved me more powerful, more masterful, more thoroughly irresistible. [5]
She was a woman of more impulse and constitutional good-nature than depth. [11]
I was alone with the servant, a bright fire was blazing in the stove, and, obedient to a hasty impulse, I told him to throw the whole contents of the box into the fire. [10]
Once, when Paulina, with tears in her eyes had spoken to her of her lost daughter, Arsinoe had been softened and following the impulse of her heart, had confided to her that she loved Pollux the sculptor and hoped to be his wife. [10]
Then, as though with sudden impulse, Kitty came forward to Crozier and leaned over him. [11]
Then she added, with something of an impulse, "After all, it is foolish of me not to tell you. [9]
Suddenly, in conflict with her desire to remain indefinitely talking with this strange man, Janet felt an intense impulse to leave. [9]
I stand here with clean hands, impelled solely by the impulse of my heart, to plead for the Queen. [10]
Then he said, with a wisdom that surprised him, for he would have liked to yield to the impulse of his curiosity: "Perhaps we'd better wait till Mrs. March comes down, and let things take the usual course. [8]
The intelligent reader will not confound this matured and serious intention of falling in love with the young lady with that mere impulse of the moment before mentioned as an instance of making love. [6]
Instinct and impulse were working in another direction. [11]
If these people were indeed so foul as to defile every thing they touch, how would this pure, this tender, holy impulse show itself even in them in all its beauty and perfection? [10]
Softened by affectionate weakness and no longer able to resist the impulse to see his little Belita happy, he whispered: "Poor thing, poor young lovers! [10]
The tramps in Washington Square felt the genial impulse, and, seeking the shaded benches, began to dream of the open country, the hospitable farmhouses, the nooning by wayside springs, and the charm of wandering at will among a tolerant and not too watchful people. [4]
Facile as she was, in all her successful life she had never acted upon impulse, but from a conscience keenly alive to what was just to herself. [4]
Her first impulse was to write him a curt note of a character that would end at once all intercourse. [4]
Virginia's first impulse was to shrink under the stairs. [9]
His first impulse was to shout "Done! [5]
Her first impulse was to send it back to her uncle. [9]
Her first impulse was to rise, yet for some inexplicable reason she remained. [9]
His first impulse was to let Charley take his fate at the hands of the people of Chaudiere, whatever it might be. [11]
His natural impulse was to hurry to the States and save his sister if possible, for he loved her with a deep and abiding affection. [5]
His first impulse was to have Dicky seized and cast to the crowd, to be torn to pieces. [11]
Her first impulse was to hand the letter over at once; then there came the remembrance of all it contained, all it suggested. [11]
My first impulse was to get him removed. [5]
My first impulse was to dash forward and destroy the Bedouins. [5]
My first impulse was to crack his head with a billiard cue; but my second was to refrain from this attention, because he was between me and the cue rack. [5]
Her first impulse was to call to him; her next to wonder who his associates could be, and for what purpose they were together. [12]
Fleda's first impulse was to break in upon the woman's story and tell her father what had happened just now outside their own house; but she waited. [11]
His first impulse was to blow out the other candle. [11]
Her first impulse was to assure herself that nothing was changed in the familiar objects around her. [6]
Behind that door was the future: so he opened it fearfully, with an impulse to throw his arm above his head. [9]
The second impulse was plainly the soundest, so I refrained, and proceeded to compromise. [5]
But the impulse was only momentary, and the vexed look became a kind one before it had crossed the room. [12]
Perhaps the impulse was more deep-seated, after all. [9]
Such a tumult was generally odious to her retiring nature; but to-night she felt herself merely one drop in the great, flowing river, of which every other drop felt the same impulse which was carrying her forward to her destination. [10]
This bunch of violets was the impulse of a big, magnanimous nature; but it would be followed by the inevitable reaction, which would be the real test and trial. [11]
Watching the tempest-swept valley, the tortured forest, where wild life was in panic, there came upon him the old impulse to put his thoughts into words, "and so be rid of them," as he was wont to say in other days. [11]
A strong impulse urged him to sketch boldly and without long consideration, the picture of the Madonna, as it had once lived in his soul, but he restrained himself, repeating the warning words which had so often been dinned into his ears: Draw, draw! [10]
There had come upon her the sudden impulse to leave it all, and go back to her father. [11]
Once he got up in the dark and drank great draughts of water; once again, as he thought of Mona, his wife, as she was in the first days of their married life, a sudden impulse seized him. [11]
We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. [7]
They notice the trivial movements and accents which betray the blood of this or that ancestor; they can detect the irrepressible movement of hereditary impulse in looks and acts which mean nothing to the common observer. [6]
Even the partial transmission of virtuous tendencies would be an immense assistance to the primary impulse derived directly and indirectly from the social instincts. [1]
He has no traditions to bind him or guide him, and his impulse is to break away from the occupation his father has followed, and make a new way for himself. [5]
Mr. Botcher's tone towards his erstwhile friend was regretful,--a good man gone wrong through impulse and inexperience. [9]
As she ran towards him, with sudden impulse, his arms spread out and he caught her to his breast. [11]
They were walking towards Fourth Avenue one evening--the priest could not resist the impulse to accompany her a little way towards her home--after a day of unusual labor and anxiety. [4]
He went uninjured, too--I had the murderous impulse to harpoon him in the back with my alpenstock, but as I raised the weapon the disposition left me; I found I hadn't the heart to kill him, he was such a joyous, innocent, good-natured numbskull. [5]
She had managed to turn the knife in the Arab's hand against his own breast, and then suddenly pressed her body against it; but the impulse of the act came near carrying her over also. [11]
What impulse led to this selection she could not explain. [4]
Struggling, then yielding to the impulse, Virginia let herself be led on into the years. [9]
His first impulse, to tell them not to let her know he had inquired, he set aside. [11]
Her impulse was to tell the truth, and so for ever have her conscience clear, for there would never be any more need for secrecy. [11]
If I were to rise and go forward--and I now felt something like a continued impulse, in spite of relaxations and revolts--I must master this knowledge, it must be my guide, form the basis of my creed. [9]
It was hard to resist the impulse to burst out with exultation and reveal everything; but I did resist. [5]
The compassionate impulse to lighten the lot of a sufferer, which had before drawn her so strongly to Caracalla, had now lost its sense and meaning for this healthy, high-spirited man. [10]
Here, it seemed to him, that the Divine being would hear the lightest murmur of his lips, though indeed his heart was so full of gratitude and devotion that his impulse was to give expression to his mighty flow of feelings in jubilant song. [10]
I was determined to fulfil myself; and in doing so to take no instructions except those of my own conscience, impulse, and conviction. [11]
Her impulse was to fly, nor could she tell what force that stayed her feet. [9]
If sometimes tempted to exercise it, the impulse was roused far more frequently by those of her own station, who were base in mind and heart, than by the sufferers in the hospital. [10]
My impulse was to charge the procession, seize Nick and the drum together, and drag them back to my room; but the futility and danger of such a course were apparent, and the caution for which I am noted prevented my undertaking it. [9]
One's impulse is to ask, "Where did you come aboard? [5]
What was apparent to another was that he was broken by the sorrow that had fallen upon him, and it was this that Beaton respected and pitied in his impulse to be frank and kind in his answer. [8]
She had yielded to an irresistible impulse and, instead of returning to Naukratis, had stopped at Sais. [10]
Caracalla, in obedience to a softer impulse, had wished to show himself grateful to Melissa. [10]
He remembered the thrill he felt as the coil settled on his shoulders, and the sudden impulse which led him to fire as he did. [6]
It seemed as though he held in his hand a portion of herself and, obeying a hasty impulse, he kissed the letter. [10]
The impulse of this was so strong, that they slipped, and quivered on the precipitous edge: but Pierre righted then, and presently they were safe. [11]
Washington plunged into this love affair as he plunged into everything else--upon impulse and without reflection. [5]
Maybe something of this element entered into the heroism which had been displayed; but whatever the impulse or the motive, the act and the end were the same--men's lives were in peril, and they were risking their own to rescue them. [11]
She did not think that very funny; but after a first impulse to inculpate her husband, she let him laugh, while they stopped under a lamp and she held the permits half a yard away to read the numbers on them. [8]
She did these things not under any external impulse as people in the full vigor of life do, when behind the purpose for which they strive that of exercising their functions remains unnoticed. [2]
Yet after all these years, with an impulse behind which there is nothing--nothing at all, you repeat that incident. [11]
All at once there shot through Pierre's body an impulse, and his eyes lighted with excitement. [11]
It was that, then, that made him, for that fatal instant, forget his vow, and yield to the impulse of human passion. [4]
And we respected then the heretofore seemingly insane impulse that had driven us on to Baddeck. [4]
She did not then follow her first impulse to show that she saw the real meaning of that speech, and rise and say, "You are insulting," and bid her good-day. [11]
The people threw themselves on the champion in a frenzy of rage, but he felt a sudden warlike impulse surging up in him, which he had never felt before. [10]
An impulse made them pause and turn, and they stood looking back together at the great house which loomed the greater in the thickening darkness, its windows edged with glow. [9]
One only of their number disputes his claim to giving the first impulse to the practice, in Boston. [3]
When she saw the wild impulse in his face to thrust her aside, she added: "It is only the shameless coward that strikes the dead. [11]
I secretly admitted the truth of his remark, but whenever I yielded to the impulse to write I felt as if I were being disloyal to the mistress to whom I had devoted all my physical and mental powers. [10]
Emerson follows out the train of influences which added themselves to the impulse given by Mr. Everett. [6]
Had I steered the straight course of my impulse I need never have deceived that dear gentleman whom I loved and honoured above any in this world, and with whom I had always lived and dealt openly. [9]
Emerson looked at the rose admiringly, and then as if by a sudden impulse lifted his hat gently, and said with a low bow, 'I take off my hat to it. [6]
Logic, philosophy are the props of life, but still you must obey the impulse of the soul--oh, absolutely! [11]
The old life, the old impetuous egoism, the long years of self were not yet gone from a character composite of impulse, vanity and intensity. [11]
Emerson has had the name of being a leader in many movements in which he had very limited confidence, this among others to which the idealizing impulse derived from him lent its force, but for the organization of which he was in no sense responsible. [6]
I can understand the impulse which led the red caps to make a wreck of this grand old historical building. [6]
I have had the impulse to write you several times. [5]
With none of the impulse that usually marked her actions, she put her arms round Guida's neck and kissed her, saying with a subdued intensity: "I'd go through fire and water for you. [11]
No matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is beyond imagination marvelous to our kind of people, the cold whites. [5]
While wavering between the duty which, as a physician, she owed the sufferer and the impulse not to refuse the request of a dying woman, she read in old Nun's eyes an entreaty to obey Kasana's wish, and with drooping head left the tent. [10]
It is to the credit of the devisers of it that they tried to conceal it--this comedy whose text and impulse are describable in two words. [5]
She turned towards the bed, but stopped abruptly, because she heard footsteps in the hall outside--footsteps she knew, footsteps which for years had travelled towards her, day and night, with eagerness; the quick, urgent footsteps of a man of decision, of impulse, of determination. [11]

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