"Unprompted" Quotes from Famous Books
... prejudice and enmity. Worse than all these thoughts, piercing like shafts of light the darkness which had obscured her judgment, was the truth, upon which she could not reason, that she shrunk with an ever-increasing dread from words and acts of love unprompted by her heart. ... — The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... guileless as the unweaned lamb, Gabriella, and long, long may you remain so," he answered, with a gentleness that disarmed my anger. "Mine was an unprompted suggestion, about as wise, I perceive, as my remarks usually are. I am a sad blunderer. May heaven pardon the pain I have caused, for the sake of my pure intentions. I do not believe it possible for a designing thought to enter your mind, or a feeling to find admittance ... — Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz
... released, for my nephew Paaker, as soon as he heard what threatened us, offered me his help; freely and unprompted, from pure ... — Uarda • Georg Ebers |