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Sentences starting with instinct

Instinct and impulse were working in another direction. [11]
Instinct told him that he should not go to her. [4]
Instinct could help him much, but it could not interpret that parchment. [11]
Instinct spoke to him here; he seemed to read in their faces that he failed to strike in them responsive chords. [9]
Instinct and reason alike made me loathe him. [9]
Instinct will make a sleeping man grip a fast hold of the railing when the stage jolts, but when it only swings and sways, no grip is necessary. [5]
Instinct again. [5]

Sentences ending with instinct

Piegan ponies are wonders in a storm- seem to know their way by instinct. [11]
We may, if we choose, call these actions instinctive; but such cases are much too rare for the development of any special instinct. [1]
Not to respond to Gaston's call was her first instinct. [11]
Chambermaids are dead to every human instinct. [5]
Sometimes, in response to an interjection from Ingolby, deftly made, she told of some incident which revealed as great a poetic as dramatic instinct. [11]
I cannot help thinking, however, that he goes too far in underrating the power of instinct. [1]
She found Charley standing at a table pressing seams, and her quick eye took him in with knowledge and instinct. [11]
She was a social artist by instinct. [11]
Now holy superstition seized him in the midst of the work of the devil, surrounding him with an almost medieval instinct. [11]
I want to see if he is dead to every human instinct. [5]

Short sentences using instinct

Mrs. Tynan's instinct was right. [11]
Instinct, all the same. [5]
His instinct was remarkable. [11]
That could be mere instinct. [5]
It is an instinct. [5]
That could be instinct, too. [5]
Lacenaire, evil instinct, 392. [6]
What is instinct? [5]
Instinct, of course. [5]
Instinct. [5]

Sentences containing instinct two or more times

The maternal instinct was at the very core of her nature, and care for others was as much a habit as an instinct with her. [11]
The above case of the swallow affords an illustration, though of a reversed nature, of a temporary though for the time strongly persistent instinct conquering another instinct, which is usually dominant over all others. [1]
Every one knows how strong the maternal instinct is, leading even timid birds to face great danger, though with hesitation, and in opposition to the instinct of self-preservation. [1]
But the most curious instance known to me of one instinct getting the better of another, is the migratory instinct conquering the maternal instinct. [1]
Going into gaol a reckless man he came out a constitutional criminal; with the natural instinct for crime greater than the instinct for morality. [11]

More example sentences with the word instinct in them

She had not yet learned to use the word patronize in the social sense, and she was at a loss to describe the attitude of Mrs. Duncan and her daughter, though her instinct had registered it. [9]
Well --argued Miles--he would naturally go to his former haunts, for that is the instinct of unsound minds, when homeless and forsaken, as well as of sound ones. [5]
It is instinct with us, I suppose. [11]
An instant, then, with the instinct of the woods and the plains, and the courage that has habitation everywhere, dropping her basket she sprang forward noiselessly. [11]
No clever man with the instinct of a highway robber could fail to notice what a chance for business was here offered. [5]
They became instinct with life to me, and have always remained so; for my mother gave them the form of dramas, in which I was permitted to be an actor. [10]
Like all bachelors who have lived a lonely life, Master Byles Gridley had his habits, which nothing short of some terrestrial convulsion--or perhaps, in his case, some instinct that drove him forth to help somebody in trouble--could possibly derange. [6]
Kitty--it was she who had so thoughtfully served him; Kitty, with the instinct of strong, unselfish womanhood, with the gift of the outdoor life, with the unpurchasable gift of friendship. [11]
Intellect's page, Instinct, who had risen from the lily with him, was a comical fellow. [10]
With an instinct, which proved correct, he opened the door leading into the old kitchen, and there, tied, and with pale faces, but in no other sense disordered, were Sheila and her mother. [11]
The military instinct, which is the special mark of barbarism, is strong in him. [4]
Words fail me when I come to describe the frightful panic of these creatures, frenzied by the instinct of self-preservation. [9]
One or two were poltroons in body and mind, with only a real instinct for money-making and a capacity for constructive individualism. [11]
Then we both went to her, I through some instinct I did not fathom. [9]
How often do we spoil our best chances by following an urgent instinct to arrive at certainty as early as possible, and by not being strong enough to postpone opening our business till a favorable moment offers. [10]
Mr. Tooting, as we have seen, had a remarkable business head, and combined with it--as Austen Vane remarked--the rare instinct of the Norway rat which goes down to the sea in ships--when they are safe. [9]
The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. [1]
Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade. [5]
Your other instinct was the truer one, if indeed you have really changed it--I don't believe you have. [9]
The vagabond instinct was strong upon me. [5]
At first it was mere blind instinct about which I had no thought, living like other infants the life of impressions without language to connect them in series. [6]
The blindman's instinct was coming to him. [11]
Art to him was an unknown book, but he had the instinct, and he was quick to feel. [11]
And no instinct warned me that I should never look upon him again in this world! [5]
Sunday morning her Voices or some instinct gave her a warning, and she sent Dunois to Blois to take command of the army and hurry it to Orleans. [5]
By instinct he understood that Carmen's husband knew all. [11]
Lacey did not understand, he did not recognise Hylda as yet; but he knew by instinct the Saadat's wishes, and he motioned the others to ride more slowly, while he and they watched horsemen coming out from Assouan towards them. [11]
But one or two vague remarks of Trixton Brent's which she recalled, and Howard's own request that she should be friendly with Brent, reenforced her instinct on this point. [9]
Why should the two halves of a brain not show a natural difference, leading to confusion of thought, and very possibly to that instinct of contradiction of which I was speaking? [6]
By instinct it turns to where help lies, as a wild deer, fleeing, from captivity, makes for the veldt and the watercourse. [11]
She did not turn instantly, but with the aboriginal instinct, listened, as it were, with her body; but presently faced about--to Hawley. [11]
She had the true instinct of womanhood, and she supposed that a heathen like this could have feelings to be hurt and a life to be wounded as herself or another. [11]
Artemus, with the true cosmopolitan instinct, always deferred to the customs of the country he was in, and so he ordered three of those abominations. [5]
The instinct of tradition which had been the cause of Mrs. Forsythe's departure was in him, too. [9]
Some instinct had told her to watch that afternoon, for she knew of his intended return and of his dangerous enterprise. [11]
Her maternal instinct told her that Natasha had too much of something, and that because of this she would not be happy. [2]
Meanwhile, in obedience to the unerring instinct for drama peculiar to great metropolitan dailies, newspaper correspondents were alighting from every train, interviewing officials and members of labour unions and mill agents: interviewing Claude Ditmar, the strongest man in Hampton that day. [9]
But his second thought told him that it was only an instinct on her part that there was something between them-- the beginning of love, maybe. [11]
Stupid and dazed though I was, the instinct of self-preservation lived, and I picked up the knife and hid it in my coat. [11]
The instinct of those far-off days which had been little removed from the finest animal intelligence had now developed into thought. [11]
We all honor this touching maternal instinct wherever we find it, be it in the home of luxury or in the humble cow-shed. [5]
The priest obeyed this instinct, as if it were possible to walk away from himself, and went on, at first with almost no sense of weariness. [4]
So strong is this instinct that it is practised under confinement, and Mr. [1]
The magnetism of this deep penetrating man, possessed of a devil, was on him, and in spite of every reasonable instinct he turned to him for companionship. [11]
But that one thing she came to know, partly by instinct, partly by something he accidentally dropped, partly from something Jacques once said to him. [11]
There's such a thing as instinct, and there's such a thing as keeping your eyes open. [11]
With either of these her instinct would have told her how to deal. [9]
It is time these gentlemen were finding out that these execrable eccentricities of instinct and conduct are only the evidences of genius, not the creators of it. [5]
It may be the Young Doctor knew Kernaghan's instinct to be true; and it also may be that what Kernaghan thought possible, the Young Doctor thought possible; but he also felt that things must be as they must be. [11]
On the contrary, the whole force of this instinct throws itself on the centre of inhibition, instead of quickening the heart-beats, and sending the rush of youthful blood with fresh life through the entire system to the throbbing finger-tips. [6]
By instinct, over the twenty-five years of his life, he had observed and become familiar with the main features of the work. [11]
Did you stay the term instinct is meaningless? [5]
Left alone in the street, Sibley looked back with the instinct of the hunter. [11]
His mind had the poetry of a free, simple--even wild-life, but he had no instinct for vice in the name of amusement. [11]
The craft of the plains, the inherent instinct, the feeling which was more than eyesight became the only hope. [11]
The poet links the most remote objects together by the slender filament of wit, the flowery chain of fancy, or the living, pulsating cord of imagination, always guided by his instinct for the beautiful. [6]
For I had the instinct that here was another cross-roads, that more depended on my decision than I cared to admit. [9]
So persistent is the instinct of barbarism in our modern civilization. [4]
In vital things the instinct becomes abnormally acute, and, one day, when the priest looked at her commiseratingly, she had divined what moved him. [11]
Already, however, in the first moment, with a true instinct of self-government, they drew together in the cabin of the "Mayflower" in an association--to carry out the divine will in society. [4]
These actions of the elephant and bear can hardly be attributed to instinct or inherited habit, as they would be of little use to an animal in a state of nature. [1]
Her instinct for the detection of book-agents, no matter how brisk and businesslike they might appear, was unerring--she remembered faces and the names belonging to them: an individual once observed to be persona non grata never succeeded in passing her twice. [9]
I've come to the conclusion that there is a true instinct in it, that there are certain things we have done which have been mistakes, and which we can't do any more. [9]
Whether this is the case with the migratory in comparison with the maternal instinct, may be doubted. [1]
She had made that speech by mere instinct, not suspecting what tremendous forces were hidden in it, and there was none to tell her what she had done. [5]
It may be that Kernaghan's instinct was no truer than his own. [11]
Her instinct whispered that it had left its mark, a hidden mark. [9]
But it's more than mere playing safe--my instinct, I mean. [9]
Never had vessels taken such risks on the Nile before, never had pilots trusted so to instinct, for there were sand- banks and ugly drifts of rock here and there. [11]
Dyck had learned swordsmanship with as skilled a master as Ireland had known, and he had shown, in getting knowledge of the weapon, a natural instinct and a capacity worthy of the highest purpose. [11]
But by a sure instinct he had guessed the identity of the White Horseman, and every nerve quivered with desire to meet him in combat. [11]
Then, as if suddenly instinct with life, it leaped hurtingly down to alight on the steep incline, to bound more swiftly into the air, to gather momentum, to plunge into the lofty leaning crag below. [13]
But you sit stronger, and the fight becomes shorter; and after many battles, and you have learned never to be off guard, to know by instinct where every ambush is, then at last the victory is yours. [11]
Any instinct, permanently stronger or more enduring than another, gives rise to a feeling which we express by saying that it ought to be obeyed. [1]
They had a strong instinct that they were lost, but they had no proofs--except that they did not know where they were. [5]
I have a strong fatherly instinct and all the foundlings are foisted on me. [5]
The nature and strength of the feelings which we call regret, shame, repentance or remorse, depend apparently not only on the strength of the violated instinct, but partly on the strength of the temptation, and often still more on the judgment of our fellows. [1]
Thus, it is stated on good authority that "almost every animal becomes panic-struck at the sight of the rattlesnake, and seems at once deprived of the power of motion, or the exercise of its usual instinct of self-preservation. [6]
He had the sound instinct of primitive man. [11]
It is this sort of blind instinct of the young man for preserving himself in the world that makes him so inaccessible to the good he might get from the prevailing culture of the leisure class. [4]
As he did so, with a quick, mothering instinct Norah impulsively kissed his shaggy head, and her eyes filled with tears. [11]
Iberville staggered forwards, so weak was he from loss of blood, and, with a deep instinct of protection and preservation, fell at Jessica's feet. [11]
If it is so that I have some instinct for the life of Canada, and have expressed it to the world with some accuracy and fidelity, it is apparent that the capacity for understanding could not be limited absolutely to one environment. [11]
But, by instinct, she knew also that Leicester, through jealousy, had increased the complication; and, fretful under the long influence he had had upon her, she steadily lessened intercourse with him. [11]
The instinct of self- preservation is not felt except in the presence of danger; and many a coward has thought himself brave until he has met his enemy face to face. [1]
Then, as the Seigneur suddenly swayed and would have fallen, the instinct of effective courtesy, strong in him, sent him with arms outstretched to lift him up. [11]
He had never seen the young lady, but he thought that she perhaps knew his mother; at any rate, his instinct of politeness made him say: "She's pretty well, I thank you. [4]
And yet she seemed to have risen through instinct to share the fire of his vision of religion revealed to the countless ranks of strugglers as the hidden motive-power of the world, the impetus of scientist, statesman, artist, and philanthropist! [9]
But at the same moment came the instinct to throw himself to one side; which he did as the rush came. [11]
He trusted, he said, Sally's instinct. [9]
Didn't look very rugged to take care of a femily, but could get hired haalp, she calc'lated.--The great maternal instinct came crowding up in her soul just then, and her eyes wandered until they settled on her daughter. [6]
She tried to rouse herself, to think, to consider a situation in which her instinct had whispered just once--there must be some hidden danger: but the electric touch of his hand destroyed the process, and made her incapable of reason. [9]
Was it the revival of the maternal instinct? [11]
How often I repeated to myself this well-founded apology, but in truth every instinct of my nature impelled me to write, and at this very time Moritz Hartmann was also urging me in his letters, while Mieczyslaw and others, even my mother, encouraged me. [10]
Should he afterwards reflect over his own conduct, he would feel that there lies within him an impulsive power widely different from a search after pleasure or happiness; and this seems to be the deeply planted social instinct. [1]
The time of reckoning had come, and every evil instinct of his nature mingled its exulting voice with the anguished cries of his bleeding heart. [10]
Suffice it to recall, with Honora, that Lily Dallam, with a sure instinct, had put the finger of her wit on this new attribute of Howard's. [9]
With a woman's ready instinct she avoided committing herself to his renewed proposals, sometimes covert, sometimes direct, but the struggle tired her. [4]
Then, as he reached out and took my hand, I knew by some instinct what was to come. [9]
She glanced around quickly, running, as she did so, with a kind of blind instinct towards the clump of firs. [11]

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