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Sentences starting with involuntarily

Involuntarily recalling his wife's past and her relations with Dolokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. [2]
Involuntarily her mind turned to Austen, and she wondered what he had said; she wondered how he would have answered her father--whether he could have answered him. [9]
Involuntarily listening now to the firing, which had drawn nearer and was increasing in strength, Alpatych hurried to his inn. [2]
Involuntarily he wished to impress her. [11]
Involuntarily she thought their thoughts and felt their feelings. [2]
Involuntarily she removed the lower veil from her face and raised her hand in prayer. [10]
Involuntarily my eyes sought the poop, and I gave a sigh of relief at the sight of the commanding figure in the midst of the whirling smoke. [9]
Involuntarily his eyes saw. [11]
Involuntarily David's eyes ran round the room before he replied. [11]
Involuntarily he drew in a great draught of it, and his eyes seemed to gaze out, almost wonderingly, over the grass and the trees to the boundless horizon. [11]

Sentences ending with involuntarily

He passed a stream, and glanced down into a dark pool involuntarily. [11]
The mountaineer watched it with a dazed expression for a moment longer, then both hands clutched the rifle and half swung it to position involuntarily. [11]
We started back involuntarily. [9]
He looked at Elsie, instinctively, involuntarily. [6]
He saw her bright delighted look, and he sighed involuntarily. [11]
Janet drew in a great breath, involuntarily. [9]
Stephen paused involuntarily. [9]
Philip rose involuntarily. [4]
I thrilled involuntarily. [11]

More example sentences with the word involuntarily in them

In the Petersburg world this sad side of the affair again involuntarily centered round a single incident: Kutaysov's death. [2]
It was a world of unbridled will, this, where the soul of Jethro Fawe had its origin; and to it his senses fled involuntarily when he put Sarasate's fiddle to his chin this Autumn evening. [11]
She had noticed with what dissatisfaction he turned from the look she sometimes involuntarily fixed on him. [2]
For a little while he was left alone and involuntarily witnessed what was taking place on the other two tables. [2]
His hand involuntarily went to his head. [11]
Unconsciously she sat up, smoothed her hair, got up, and went to the window, involuntarily inhaling the freshness of the clear but windy evening. [2]
She picked it up, and, as she did so, involuntarily observed the writing. [11]
We all looked up involuntarily, as if we should see the national flag by so doing. [6]
Hermas involuntarily glanced up at the window where more than once he had seen Sirona, and said, as he pointed to the centurion's house, "He too fell. [10]
The blood rushed to Natasha's face and her feet involuntarily moved, but she could not jump up and run out. [2]
Pierre felt reluctant to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. [2]
He avoided talking to Conrad, from a feeling that if he did he should involuntarily lead him on to speak of his differences with his father. [8]
The officers followed to check the soldiers and were involuntarily drawn into doing the same. [2]
At the same time he felt that the deeper the ground sank under him the closer bound he involuntarily became to the order. [2]
Her mind was thus involuntarily reproducing Ingolby's policy, as he had declared it to Jowett and Rockwell. [11]
As Pierre passed through the fence gate, he was enveloped by hot air and involuntarily stopped. [2]
He involuntarily seized the saddlebag which contained the handsomest gift he had bought in Brussels for the person who had drawn him back to Ratisbon with a stronger power of attraction than anything else. [10]
He involuntarily compared the old capital of the Pharaohs to a time-eaten mummy, and Amru's new city to a vigorous youth. [10]
As they reached the middle of the steep bridge across the canal he involuntarily stood still, riveted by the view of the southwest. [10]
It was as the master- carpenter had remarked seven years before, he was always involuntarily saying, "Here I come--look at me. [11]
At that instant the little man himself caught the eye of the Khedive, and Ismail involuntarily dropped a hand upon his sword, for some gesture of this dervish, some familiar turn of his body, startled him. [11]
Hers were not the first red lips which, voluntarily or involuntarily, had invited him; nor hers the first eyes which had sparkled to his glances; and this triumphant Titian head of hers was not the only one he had seen. [11]
Eglington vaguely knew that now he was to face some trial of mind and nerve, but with great deliberation he continued dropping liquid from a bottle into the glass retort he carried, his eyes, however, watchful of his visitor, who involuntarily stared around the laboratory. [11]
He noted, involuntarily, that in her agitation the white tulle at her bosom had been disturbed into pretty disarray, and that there was neither brooch nor necklace at her breast or throat. [11]
During the speech that followed, Balashev, who more than once lowered his eyes, involuntarily noticed the quivering of Napoleon's left leg which increased the more Napoleon raised his voice. [2]
While Paaker was telling her that he must shortly leave for Syria, she involuntarily observed the action of this hand, which often went cautiously to his girdle as if he had something concealed there; this was the oval phial with the rest of the philter. [10]
To make quite sure of the firmness of the ground, he put his other foot down and sank deeper still, became stuck in it, and involuntarily waded knee-deep in the bog. [2]
He began his story meaning to tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. [2]
As her head slightly turned from him again, he involuntarily noticed the pulse beating in her neck, the rise and fall of her bosom. [11]
Everything seemed so simple and clear in Speranski's exposition that Prince Andrew involuntarily agreed with him about everything. [2]
Speranski did not shift his eyes from one face to another as people involuntarily do on entering a large company and was in no hurry to speak. [2]
Whenever he or she, by way of example, mentioned any well-known work of art, she imitated, as if involuntarily, its pose and action with surprising fidelity, frequently also in admirable caricature, whose effect was extremely comical. [10]
At such moments she would turn to the typewriter, her fingers striking the keys with amazing rapidity, with extraordinary accuracy and force,--force vaguely disturbing to Mr. Claude Ditmar as he entered the office one morning and involuntarily paused to watch her. [9]
In her sleep she had involuntarily responded to the call of Charley's approach. [11]
The frivolous waiting-woman sank involuntarily on her knees, as her eyes, full of smiling admiration, met the radiant glance of Nitetis,--of the woman who was beloved by the most powerful of men. [10]
He involuntarily looked round at the aide-de-camp. [2]
Seeing that smile, Rostov involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still stronger flow of love for his sovereign. [2]
That is a power she has: she can bend one to her will, although she often, involuntarily, wills things that are death to others. [11]
At that moment Pierre involuntarily betrayed to her, to Princess Mary, and above all to himself, a secret of which he himself had been unaware. [2]
But his eyes, perhaps involuntarily, paid a tribute to her personal appearance which heightened her color. [9]
On the instant's pause, in which Zoe looked at her lover almost involuntarily, and without fully understanding what he said, someone else started forward with a smothered exclamation--of anger, of horror, of dismay. [11]
He involuntarily put out his hand towards the gleaming helmet, and interrupted the pretty preacher with the question, "May I try it on? [10]
But the little one struggled with such loud cries, and could not be pacified, that Paaker set it down on the ground, and involuntarily exclaimed: "The naughty little thing! [10]
Rostov got out of their way, involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. [2]
He reminded her of their first encounter in the Otradnoe avenue, and how she had been unable to sleep that moonlight night, and told her how he had involuntarily overheard her. [2]
She involuntarily thought of the great Napoleon and his toy kingdom of Elba, of Garibaldi and his handful of patriots. [11]
She involuntarily thought of him as one of those few with whom she had come into personal contact, and in whose weal or woe she had some sympathetic interest. [10]
Involuntarily, the eyes of both were attracted to Mrs. Falchion. [11]
When she was not looking at him she felt that he was looking at her shoulders, and she involuntarily caught his eye so that he should look into hers rather than this. [2]
This is claiming much when that kin must face the challenge of a phrase like the one in the middle sentence: "an idealist immersed in realities who involuntarily transmutes the events under his eye into something like the visionary issues of reverie. [5]
In a few minutes she must meet the Roman, and, involuntarily putting up her hand to smooth her hair, she was reminded that she still wore Glaucus' hat on her head and his cloak wrapped round her shoulders. [10]
It was this material use to which she was so largely assigned, almost involuntarily but none the less truly, that had destroyed all of the finer, dearer, more delicate intimacy invading his mind sometimes, more or less vaguely, where Faith was concerned. [11]
He thinks that Machiavelli was in earnest, as none but an idealist can be, and he is the first to imagine him an idealist immersed in realities, who involuntarily transmutes the events under his eye into something like the visionary issues of reverie. [5]
Almost involuntarily he looked to the bench by the chapel door which she occasionally occupied at vespers. [4]
And as she lingered, idly dreaming, she involuntarily compared the two men. [10]
But these were items, for in all he was a fine piece of humanity, and Iberville said as much to De Casson, involuntarily stretching up as he did so. [11]
She glanced at it, read involuntarily the first lines, and then, with a little cry, turned it over. [9]
Hodder glanced up, involuntarily, at the window of the woman he had visited the night before, but it was empty. [9]
He stepped aside, involuntarily, apologetically, as though he had instinctively read in her attitude an unaccountable disdain. [9]
Her feet moved involuntarily while her gaze rested on the litter, and she caught a glimpse sometimes of a golden curl, sometimes of a little hand, sometimes of the whole marvellously beautiful fair head. [10]
Her glance turned involuntarily toward the picture of the Olympian dinner party pinned on the wall. [9]
All eyes fastened involuntarily on this French column advancing against them and winding down over the uneven ground. [2]
Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer Tushin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes from Prince Andrew to the staff officer. [2]
Natasha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more. [2]
It is the innocent fellow-creature, otherwise inoffensive to me, whom I find I have involuntarily joined on turning a corner. [6]
Ani shuddered, as if he were in the presence of a mad woman, and he involuntarily drew his chair back a little way. [10]
The two gentlemen, however, slowed their steps involuntarily at a sight which was uncommon, even in Washington. [9]
He involuntarily remembered how Dolokhov, who had fully recovered his former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come to him. [2]
He left the house buried in morbid speculation, and involuntarily made his way to a little hut of two rooms which he had built in the Seigneury grounds. [11]
Speaking so, the historians of culture involuntarily contradict themselves, and show that the new force they have devised does not account for what happens in history, and that history can only be explained by introducing a power which they apparently do not recognize. [2]
All seriously thinking historians have involuntarily encountered this question. [2]
He choked back his wrath and moved on amiably enough, and suddenly the fashion in which the tables had been turned on him struck him with its tragic comedy, and he involuntarily smiled. [11]
Involuntarily Cowan lined his sights across the woodpile on this mark of color. [9]
Involuntarily Wetherell put his hand to his pocket, felt something crackle under it, and drew the something out. [9]
Hermon involuntarily dipped his hand into the water which stood ready to wet the bandages, and sprinkled his own face with it; but if he had ever beheld life with waking eyes, he was doing so now. [10]
He got to his feet involuntarily and stepped towards the door, looking down into the valley. [11]
Dick involuntarily moved his chair a little away from her, and thought he felt a pricking in the small white scars on his wrist. [6]
Involuntarily he rested himself on the mahogany stool, and ran his fingers over the keys. [9]
Tears came to her eyes, and she said to me, her hand involuntarily clasping my arm: "Oh no, no! [11]
Cambyses felt that he hated Bartja, and his fist clenched involuntarily as he saw the young hero looking so happy in the consciousness of his own well-earned success. [10]
His suite, not having expected this, involuntarily came closer to him. [2]
Suddenly, the world had grown unfamiliar to him; he saw it from afar; but his subconscious self involuntarily registered impressions, and he moved mechanically through the ceremonies and duties of the immediate present. [11]
Involuntarily the village had built itself in such a way that it made a wide avenue from the common at one end to the Meeting-house on the gorse- grown upland at the other. [11]
Reaching the pine grove, thinned by a famous landscape architect, she paused involuntarily to wonder again at the ultramarine of Sawanec through the upright columns of the trunks under the high canopy of boughs. [9]
General events involuntarily group themselves around some particular incident. [2]
Does not the great public involuntarily respect the author rather for the sale of his books than for the books themselves? [4]
But the latter's good-natured naivete was so boundless that sometimes even he involuntarily yielded to Nicholas' good humor. [2]
He rode hurriedly from the battlefield and returned to the Shevardino knoll, where he sat on his campstool, his sallow face swollen and heavy, his eyes dim, his nose red, and his voice hoarse, involuntarily listening, with downcast eyes, to the sounds of firing. [2]
Involuntarily she rose from her seat. [4]
He listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and political events. [2]
Mrs. Mavick's respect for her involuntarily rose. [4]
And I felt for a moment hard against Roscoe, that he should even indirectly and involuntarily, bring suffering into her life. [11]
In the second file from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. [2]
The rider, whose figure seemed familiar to Rostov and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostov instantly recognized his lamented and adored monarch. [2]
Her eyes involuntarily fell on the high desk with the greenbaize top. [11]
Involuntarily her heart fashioned the response he ought to give--"I shall have you left, Hylda. [11]
But involuntarily his eyes were drawn to the hill beyond, where showed a light in a window of the Manor. [11]
Suddenly, with an exclamation, she involuntarily laid a hand upon Windlehurst's arm. [11]
His eyes were even raised to where I was, so that I involuntarily drew back, though I knew he could not see me. [11]
She gazed far down the slope to the curved purple lines of Deception Pass and involuntarily shut her eyes with a trembling stir of nameless fear. [13]

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