"Impulsively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lady Washington, she will not give it to the man who has proven a traitor to HER," said the younger woman impulsively. "That is—I beg your ladyship's pardon"—she hesitated, observing in the dead silence that ensued that the two superior male beings present looked at each ...
— Thankful Blossom • Bret Harte
... quick glance upon the speaker to find his face set and his eyes miserable. Impulsively she laid her ...
— Heart of the Sunset • Rex Beach
... But there is such a thing as being too generous in expressing a judgment impulsively, and Oak added with a more appreciative sense of all the circumstances—"Well, I am not quite certain it was ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... reflect on the whole case, do we feel that our first impulsively adopted opinion was wrong? Do we regard our belief as a poetical illusion? I do not think so; on the contrary, it seems to me that our good sense approves our fancy's flight. For what can be more natural than the conviction that the secret of the name, age, and features ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... on a bottle of witch hazel as I rose. Impulsively, I drank off half the contents. It sent a warmth through me. I straightened ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... her gesture and expression reminded him of her father. Something, and more that was characteristic to her at such moments, made him fancy another resemblance, and caused him to ask impulsively, and less ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... man had; Ramon had told me of his buying for the admiral more than three hundred barrels of damaged coffee for thirty pounds. I was in a mad temper. I smashed my hand upon the spikes of the rail in front of me, and although I saw hands move impulsively towards me all over the court, I did not know that my arm was impaled ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... not dare to trust his instinctive reading of the signs. He went on impulsively: "I wanted him to quit, but he just kept right on, and Brother Baker ...
— The Court of Boyville • William Allen White
... down by this table," said the girl, impulsively, "and tell me a little about your home back in the mountains. Wouldn't ...
— Lifted Masks - Stories • Susan Glaspell
... up impulsively, to the amazement of his companion, who of course could not comprehend what seemed so to have stung his American friend. As they passed the tree, on the other side of its huge trunk, they saw a young woman, ...
— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... for she knew that I had heard. She lifted a hand impulsively toward his mouth: he caught her hand and looked as though he would have held it; she drew it away, blushing sweetly, and sighed, as she had sighed ...
— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... "You are wrong, Rockstone," he exclaimed impulsively. "This man is no faker, nor am I so easily imposed upon as you seem to think. I tell you that we are called upon to deal with a new agency that can neither be disputed nor sneered away, and unless we can contrive some way to oppose it, the United States will step in and force ...
— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney
... forget everything but our two selves," she cried impulsively. Her heart was overflowing with pity. She held out both her hands. He seized them and raised ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... not coherently, using his vocabulary with such skill that his meaning depended entirely upon the interpretation of his remarks by individual hearers, while the limitations of vision caused him, on the sudden appearance of masses of any sort, to shoot at them impulsively, regardless of such minor details as consequences. As a result of these gifts he was ever hitting something with either the arrows of speech or the slungshot, which produced a public impression of ceaseless activity and of material accomplishment. ...
— The Autobiography of Methuselah • John Kendrick Bangs
... "Father," he began impulsively, interrupting some old-time talk, "do you know that Mr. Grant and Mr. Moulton are going to Fort McMurray ...
— On the Edge of the Arctic - An Aeroplane in Snowland • Harry Lincoln Sayler
... understand what was the direction of her thoughts, and he was taken entirely by surprise when she leaned forward impulsively and took ...
— The Puritans • Arlo Bates
... said, impulsively, "if you want a reliable man for the night, I am ready to sacrifice myself for my friend—such a soul as he has! I have long thought him a great man, excellency! My article showed my lack of education, but when he criticizes he ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... he enlisted, after all?" cried Betty impulsively, and the next minute could have bitten her tongue out ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope
... cried Miss Blair impulsively, and then looked immediately convicted, for Miss Shelley had got only as far ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young
... Impulsively I turned to a man leaning on the ferry-boat railing beside me. "Is n't that the most wonderful thing in the world?" ...
— The Log-Cabin Lady, An Anonymous Autobiography • Unknown
... letter had settled that doubt, and it had been so despairing, so suggestive of frenzy in its wording, that Stephen had impulsively rushed off to South Kensington at once, without stopping to think whether it would not be better to send a representative combining the gentleness of the dove with the wisdom of the serpent, and armed for ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... no fire!" Constant Hite paused impressively. Then he went on impulsively, full of his subject: "Ben Hanway kem over ter the still-house arter me, an' tergether we went ter examinate. But the bresh is powerful thick, an' the way is long, an' though we seen a flicker wunst or twict ez we-uns pushed through the deep woods, 't war daybreak ...
— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... at the advent of such a paragon, and horrified at Edith's choice of a name, Bruce had replied at once by wire, impulsively: ...
— Tenterhooks • Ada Leverson
... at least, Sir Max," she answered, impulsively reining her horse close to Max and placing her ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... time past, during his residence at the court, the Chevalier de Lorraine had decided, that of Louis XIII.'s two sons, Monsieur was the one who had inherited the father's character—an uncertain, irresolute character; impulsively good, indifferently disposed at bottom; but certainly a cipher for his friends. He especially cheered De Guiche, by pointing out to him that Madame would, before long, succeed in governing her husband, and that, consequently, that man would ...
— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... me something to make the offer," she said impulsively. "The money would have been ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm
... you, safe?" exclaimed the lad, impulsively. "Ay, as safe as is a mouse's nest in a cat's ear—as safe as is a rabbit in a ferret's hutch. But that I know you to be a brave and dauntless maid, I should say ...
— Historic Girls • E. S. Brooks
... the leap," said Barbara impulsively as a child might say it; and both men, who knew her love for horses, heard nothing but genuine excitement in her remark. It concealed her real thoughts. If this story were true, Gilbert Crosby had ...
— The Brown Mask • Percy J. Brebner
... vulture. His cheeks were hollow; the arms, crossed on his breast, were long and fleshless. Yet in that skeleton form there was a something which conveyed the idea of a serpent's suppleness and strength; and as the hungry, watchful eyes met my own startled gaze, I recoiled impulsively with that inward warning of danger which is conveyed to man, as to inferior animals, in the very aspect of the creatures that sting or devour. At my movement the man inclined his head in the submissive Eastern salutation, and spoke in his foreign tongue, softly, humbly, ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
... of curious importance which the two men sealed impulsively with a grip of the hands across the table, and down at Woolhanger, through some dreary months, it was Jane's greatest pleasure to remember that it was at her ...
— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... were everywhere firm and solid beneath his blow. It seemed useless to his usually inert mind, and he was about to abandon himself again to the jaws of despair, when a new thought suggested itself. Fired with the inspiration of the new idea, he impulsively proceeded to carry it into execution. By the side of the wall, with vigorous strokes, he commenced digging, with the intention of undermining it. Without a thought of his enfeebled body, he plied the shovel with the energy of desperation. Instead of making ...
— Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue • Warren T. Ashton
... not want to play the hypocrite, and he told her the truth that he had not. But he assured her that he had never been infected and that his general and sexual health was in excellent condition. Being then in an exalted mood, she impulsively broke the engagement, declaring that her husband will have to be as "pure" as she was. She soon regretted her step, because she loved the man; but pride did not let her take the initiative towards a reconciliation, and in the meantime her former fiance fell in love with and married ...
— Woman - Her Sex and Love Life • William J. Robinson
... the phrase as it sounded in her ears, "Oi'm like that meself!" and came to an instant conclusion. "Irish! She's Irish. I'm glad of that. I like Irish people." She smiled for pure pleasure, and the visitor stretched out a hand impulsively, and grasped the thin ...
— More about Pixie • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... Anna, impulsively, "my being late had nothing at all to do with Delia this time. I was with ...
— Thistle and Rose - A Story for Girls • Amy Walton
... Impulsively she leaned forward. "There is something about you, Mr. Carroll, which makes me trust you. I feel that you are a friend rather ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... scarcely dared to breathe, it seemed as many minutes that the boy and lion stood confronting each other without moving. Indeed, Kit stood as if fascinated before the mighty beast, and a thrill passed through his frame as he realized the terrible danger into which he had impulsively rushed. But he knew full well that his peril was each instant growing greater. He could not retreat now, for the furious beast would improve the chance to spring upon him and rend him ...
— The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus • Horatio Alger Jr.
... and uttered some faint disclaimer; but seeing by his steady look and firm-set jaw that he meant to know, and detecting as I also thought in his general manner and subdued tones the promise of an unexpected forbearance, I added impulsively: ...
— The Old Stone House and Other Stories • Anna Katharine Green
... impulsively, holding out her hand. He bent toward her, flushing. They were nearer than they had been since that day when his summons to war came. And then Fate—as Mr. Logan might have ...
— I've Married Marjorie • Margaret Widdemer
... the moonlight, thinking things over just as I have in here!" the girl told herself. Surely he could see her! But no, he turned, and was striding away with his head down, when she knocked sharply and impulsively on ...
— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... she realized, from Kitty's evident embarrassment, that she had impulsively broken in upon ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr
... She sprang up impulsively and stood waiting for him. He arose more slowly. Even before he spoke her eyes dilated with the shock ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White
... but without speaking. An instant later he impulsively withdrew the letter from his pocket and held it out to the Baron, who strode across the room and took it from his hand. Without a word, he extracted the single sheet of paper and ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... out impulsively. Then her face went bleakly forlorn, hard almost in its helpless pathos. "Only, he never asks me. He's..." Her pause was broken by sudden passion. "You watch out for him, Saxon, if he ever comes foolin' around you. He's no good. Just the same, I'd marry him to-morrow. He'll ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
... was to her mother's woes, Lizzie Farnshaw was moved to unusual demonstrations by the quality of the outburst of tears which followed the words, and said impulsively: ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
... then," suggested Toby Hopkins impulsively. "No telling when the volunteer firemen will get there, they seem so slow about gathering, and running their old machine to a blaze. Thank goodness! we've decided to have an up-to-date fire department in little old Chester right ...
— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton
... frame a reply, for he was somewhat slow of speech, his wife, who had turned from De Croix, and was listening with interest to my story, spoke impulsively. ...
— When Wilderness Was King - A Tale of the Illinois Country • Randall Parrish
... lives. It is all to his credit, and it goes to constitute him a desirable citizen, in the sense that he is properly amenable to the incitements of patriotic emulation; but it is none the less to be admitted, however reluctantly, that this trait of impulsively vicarious indignation or vainglory is neither materially profitable to himself nor an asset of the slightest economic value to the community in which he lives. Quite the contrary, in fact. So also is it true that the common man ...
— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen
... with memories of other and happier times, and Nora stretched out her hands impulsively to Owen, who drew her close to ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... youngest, ran impulsively to her in the garden. Millicent was eighteen, and the days when she went to school and wore her hair in a long plait were still quite fresh in the girl's mind. For this reason she was ...
— Leonora • Arnold Bennett
... Now a footnote and reference to you will do the work...For me, this is one of the most IMPORTANT parts of the review. But for PLEASURE, I have been particularly glad that my few words ('Descent of Man,' volume i. page 87. A discussion on the question whether an act done impulsively or instinctively can be called moral.) on the distinction, if it can be so called, between Mivart's two forms of morality, caught your attention. I am so pleased that you take the same view, and give authorities for it; but I searched ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin
... Impulsively, he took a step toward her, thrust forth a sinewy hand and gripped the one she raised. "It makes me feel like a new man just to listen to you—and the only thing I can't understand is why you think me worth the ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston
... declared Elise, assuming an angelic expression, which made them all laugh, for Elise was really the one most likely to take offence at trifles, or to flare up impulsively if any one ...
— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells
... darling," said Olga, raising her face impulsively. "I shall write and tell Dad what care you are ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... something he had never done before within the span of his memory; he bent impulsively and kissed ...
— The Wall Between • Sara Ware Bassett
... a tremendous drama was being enacted before them. So intense was the excitement the people on the back tiers of the galleries sprang impulsively to their feet ...
— The One Woman • Thomas Dixon
... only I! Yes, I could stand it. Lately I've begun to think that I can stand anything. But when I see Dad it breaks my heart—and you—oh, Buck, it hurts, it hurts!" She drew his hands impulsively against her breast. "If it were only something we ...
— The Night Horseman • Max Brand
... she cared, he knew that she would die rather than betray her preference by a word or a look. "Whether she cares or not, and it is just possible that she does care in her heart, she will marry me if I ask her," he thought; and decided immediately that there was no necessity to act impulsively in the matter. "If I ask her she will persuade herself that she loves me. She will marry me just as hundreds of women have married men in the past; and we should probably live as long and as happily as all the others." That was the way his father and mother had married; and ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow
... impulsively. "If you give me that holiday to-day," she said, "and if you trust me, and if you will also give me Mrs. Martin's address, which, of course, you must have ...
— The School Queens • L. T. Meade
... ran to seize her friend's hand drawing him impulsively toward the lovely Princess, who smiled most graciously upon her guest. Then the Wizard entered, and his presence relieved the boy's embarrassment. The little man was clothed in black velvet, with many sparkling ...
— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.
... Anna leaned forward impulsively. "My dear child, what's the matter?" She saw the girl's blood rush up under the white mask, and hastened on: "Please don't be afraid to tell me. I do so want you to feel that you can trust me as Owen does. And you ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton
... dog—and slightly color-blind," chuckled Decatur, joyously. "But come," he went on, helping her to rise and retaining both her hands, swaying them back and forth clasped in his, as children do in the game of London Bridge,—"come," he repeated, impulsively, "while my courage is high let us go and break the news ...
— Quaint Courtships • Howells & Alden, Editors
... "Don't be gone long, Marion," she exclaimed impulsively, "for you know, Mr. Sinclair, we must get back by two o'clock." And Dicksie, pale with apprehension, looked at them both. Marion, quite composed, nodded reassuringly and followed Sinclair out ...
— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman
... even to be aware of this event, and not relate fully the manner of it, lest a suspicion of blood-guiltiness should rest upon some innocent head? But while he was thus cogitating, he heard footsteps approaching along the wood-path; and half-impulsively, half on purpose, he stept aside into the shrubbery, but still where he could see the dead body, ...
— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... said, impulsively. "Yes. I'll tell you. If it is wrong for me to tell, then let it be wrong. I'm sick of mystery and secrets and signals and suspense, and—oh, I'm sick of it all! And it's—it's splendid of you to want to help me, after what has happened to you through meeting ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune
... my son," thought Phyllis, "I wouldn't worry about any strange hired girl's feelings either, maybe. I'd just think about him.... I promise I'll look after Mr. Harrington's welfare as if he were my own brother!" she ended aloud impulsively. ...
— The Rose Garden Husband • Margaret Widdemer
... reasons, and many more, when I had got into Brussels I began to make all necessary arrangements for getting out of it again; and I had impulsively got into a tram which seemed to be going out of the city. In this tram there were two men talking; one was a little man with a black French beard; the other was a baldish man with bushy whiskers, like the financial foreign count in a three-act ...
— Tremendous Trifles • G. K. Chesterton
... it looks very suspicious, Harry! Oh, tell me what to do!" and, impulsively, Viola held out her hands to him. Bartlett ...
— The Golf Course Mystery • Chester K. Steele
... humanity was added to the imposing scene within the Abbey through what might have been a painful accident. Lord Rolle, a peer between seventy and eighty years of age, stumbling and falling as he climbed the steps of the throne, the Queen impulsively moved as if to aid him; and when the old man, undismayed, persisted in carrying out his act of homage, she asked quickly, "May I not get up and meet him?" and descended one or two steps to save him the ascent. The ready natural kindliness of the royal action awoke ecstatic applause, ...
— Great Britain and Her Queen • Anne E. Keeling
... turned impulsively, his face lighted with enthusiasm. "By Jove!" he exclaimed, "but that ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright
... her feet turned into one of the lanes, and she followed unconsciously the well-known path until the gray wall of the ruined manoir came in sight. She paused for a moment—she had not meant to go there—then impulsively went forward, crossed the empty courtyard, and finding the garden door ajar pushed it open. The drowsy midsummer silence seemed to possess both house and garden. The place was deserted. In the corner stood the painter's large canvas on ...
— One Woman's Life • Robert Herrick
... him without speaking; for down in the space where some women were huddled aside from the crowd, looking on, she had seen little Adrienne Bourcier. She made haste to descend. Now that her impulsively chosen enterprise was completed her boldness deserted her and she slipped out through a dilapidated postern opposite the crowd. On her right was the river, while southward before her lay a great flat plain, beyond which rose some hillocks covered with forest. The sun blazed between masses ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... who had also recognized the animal, ran, impulsively, to the door. She saw her brother advance to within a few feet of the stranger, then turn abruptly on his heel and return toward the house. The man thus contemptuously received, reeled, as if he would have ...
— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor
... readily intuitive, glanced swiftly about to assure herself that the waiting-room was free from unsympathetic eavesdroppers. Then, strangely drawn by this quaint old vender of humanity, and warmly eager to put him more at his ease, she impulsively pushed a rocking-chair toward the old stove in the center and motioned him to be seated. But Uncle Noah had been reared in the Fairfax family, and a Fairfax never sat when a lady was still upon her feet. ...
— Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration • Leona Dalrymple
... one picture? What do you think, Welby?' he said, impulsively addressing the man beside him. 'Wasn't ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... hand through his arm and squeezed it impulsively. "I'll take anything from you, Charlie. Hope I shall be man enough for ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
... mouth impulsively, and then shut it again. Sir James's words sounded in her ears: "Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best." And like a flash there came into her mind another memory. Julius before the safe in the flat, her own question and the ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie
... Mart as Bob impulsively started forward. "We don't aim to let you start any rough-house with us, Jerry. I don't trust you a little bit. Bob, you stand by while I help Jerry get his helmet on, then get the pump goin' while I slide him over the edge ...
— The Pirate Shark • Elliott Whitney
... bruised patches on face and chin—the same place where that long, ugly cut had been which dripped blood on the floor the night she had run from him in the dark—went to his face, and back again, limpid with pity. And she lifted it impulsively and tucked it under her chin, and held it there with small ...
— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans
... looked a little frightened when Mr. Hazlewood had called to the driver and stopped the carriage; but at his words the blood rushed into her cheeks and her eyes shone and she pushed out her hand impulsively. ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason
... life was for her as a great dynamo to which she had drawn close so that it sent its mighty pristine and vigorous current dancing through her. She lifted her glass and sipped while she still smiled; she saw Barlow's empty goblet and impulsively emptied into it half of her own. Though her back for the time was upon Bruce she seemed to feel his quick jealous frown, for she turned swiftly from Barlow, and her fingers fluttered to Bruce's shoulder. Kendric ...
— Daughter of the Sun - A Tale of Adventure • Jackson Gregory
... looked away weary and sombre, and Fyne said "Yes," impulsively and then qualified the affirmative by the quaint statement: ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad
... shrill cry, to be interpreted as contemptuous laughter, and, in her emotion, spoke too impulsively: "Why, she'd ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington
... Impulsively, I held out my hand. He took it, and pressed it so hard that it hurt, then dropped it suddenly. His manner is certainly very odd sometimes. I suppose he doesn't want me to flatter myself that I am of any importance in his scheme of existence. ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... of Perry flared at this. He was about to sail in search of the British fleet with what men he had because he was unable to obtain more, and he had rightly looked to Chauncey to supply the deficiency. Impulsively he asked to be relieved of his command and gave expression to his sense of grievance in a letter to the Secretary of the Navy in which he said, among other things: "I cannot serve under an officer who has been so totally regardless ...
— The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 - The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 • Ralph D. Paine
... before. Of course she was not pledged. That he comprehended. She was yet to be won. The years between them were nothing. Josephine Beauharnais was older than Napoleon. By the time they returned to the school, he had opened his heart impulsively and spread before the astonished ideal of his affections the treasures of his inventive imagination. Miss Lafontaine had been sympathetic. She had understood at once. She had rather lightly passed over the Bedelle Improved Bathtub. ...
— Skippy Bedelle - His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete - Man of the World • Owen Johnson
... talk—God forgive them—and in all their programmes, they carefully avoid all such subjects. They will talk about the protection of the cow, for that's an ancient superstition—they can all understand that; but the protection of the women is a new and dangerous idea." She turned to Pagett impulsively: ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... and—" Whatever other sentiment my companion failed to put into words was impulsively and eloquently communicated by ...
— Helen's Babies • John Habberton
... mothers or other safe counsellors to whom they can go in these critical hours of their history, when their future weal or woe may turn upon the decisions then made. And happy are those fair maidens who, instead of impulsively and recklessly rejecting all counsel and warning from their truest friends, listen to the voice of experience and parental love, and above all, seek aid from the infinitely loving One who has said: "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth ...
— Oowikapun - How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians • Egerton Ryerson Young
... "I have thought of it—that which should come to a man and be himself, not a part of his being but the very life of him. If it comes not, a man must go unsatisfied to his grave. If it comes—You know," he said, and turned and kissed her hand impulsively, "It came to my father ...
— His Grace of Osmonde • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... the pages of the book which had been given her, and as she did so a name caught her attention. She remembered a problem that had troubled her when she read the book before. She cried impulsively—"Oh, Mr. Hodden, there is a question I want to ask you about this book. Was—" Here she checked herself ...
— One Day's Courtship - The Heralds Of Fame • Robert Barr
... a thousand welcomes, Senor Jack," she exclaimed impulsively, as she offered her hand, "and a thousand thanks for all that you have done for my father and Carlos. I am delighted that you have been able to come to us, for I seem to know you quite well; Carlos has talked ...
— The Cruise of the Thetis - A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection • Harry Collingwood
... She stopped as if overcome with emotion, and then added with great feeling: "I guess everybody's got some remembrance o' their mother tucked away. I always see mine at the faro table with her foot snuggled up to Dad's, an' the light o' lovin' in her eyes. Ah, she was a lady . . .!" Impulsively she rose and walked over to the bar. "No," she went on, when behind it once more, "I couldn't share that table an' The Polka with any man—unless there was a heap o' carin' back of it. No, I couldn't, Jack, I ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... contentment of these thoughts she grew younger and prettier,—began to look as she did at twenty. And Donald, gazing scrutinizingly in her face one day, seeking, as he was always doing, for stray glimpses of resemblance to Elspie, saw this change, and impulsively told ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... now that something must be wrong, did not rush hastily and impulsively for the door of the cabin. Instead, he crept up quietly toward the side, where there was a window, that would give him a chance to look in ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters - or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed • Robert Maitland
... McDormick, impulsively, "just pitch this game for us this afternoon! We'll sink the knife ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish
... reawakening, enervating but furious. She had given herself impulsively. He recovered himself similarly. The sudden contact of two bodies resulted in the immediate recoil of ...
— His Excellency the Minister • Jules Claretie
... candidate. With all the attention of the crowd centred upon one man, Harley was able to slip quietly through the dense ranks and enter the hotel, where he fell at once into the hands of Sylvia Morgan. She came forward to meet him, impulsively holding out her hands, the light of welcome ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... she exclaimed, impulsively taking his hand. "I'm the most heartless creature in the whole world. Do you know, Frank, though I look so nice and girlish, I am really a brute; and when I die I am sure to go ...
— Love, The Fiddler • Lloyd Osbourne
... pretty," said Griswold, impulsively; "she has the beauty of those who have high ideals, and live up ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde
... distress. She had spoken impulsively, but not with the kind of emotion the words seem to imply. It was for his sake, not for hers, that she broke that ...
— The Nether World • George Gissing
... Ryder!" Impulsively he patted her shoulder, and in spite of everything his action thrilled her with a sense of comfort. "Why, all through this dreadful night you've behaved like a heroine, and if your courage fails you a little now—which I hardly believe—well, that's ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... thought that our Great Teacher's parables were true pictures of things around Him; He painted from living models, "impulsively and on occasion." The prodigal son, the unjust judge, the rich fool, the camel unladen to pass the narrow tunnel of the needle's eye, the lost sheep, the found piece of money and the like,—all were real incidents made ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... write him," the young man cried, impulsively, "that I may relieve his anxiety. Let me bid him join you at Rome. Think, dearest madam, what he ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
... rage well-nigh overpowered him, but he knew this man was speaking the truth. For some moments they stood face to face. Then, impulsively offering his hand, and with a quick change of voice, Brown said, "I am awfully sorry, ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor
... impulsively to the speaker. "You dear old sentimentalist," he said; "do you really continue to believe in ...
— The Orchard of Tears • Sax Rohmer
... Brent saw again the look she often could not keep from her face when that vision of the dance hall in the slums was horrifying her. He said impulsively: ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... cents a word to London, and goodness knows how many times that from Tokio here. He knows what he's doing though, and I warrant you it's the lady's money that pays for that cablegram," whereupon Ralph impulsively raised the paper to his lips and kissed it, then blushed like ...
— The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron • Graham B. Forbes
... "And I said: 'Yes, Mother, I will!'" Mr. Connolly sighed and applied the napkin again. "'Twas a liar I was!" he observed, remorsefully. "Many's the dirty I've played since then. 'It's a long way back to Mother's knee.' 'Tis a true word!" He turned impulsively to Mr. Brewster. "Dan, there's a deal of trouble in this world without me going out of me way to make more. The strike is over! I'll send the men back tomorrow! There's ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... her drink it, and her teeth ceased to chatter. She was rather a pathetic object. One of her little black satin slippers was cut to shreds, and the other was clogged with wet sand. The fear of Ray, too, was in her white face. She caught hold of my hand impulsively. ...
— The Betrayal • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... her sadly and said nothing; but the tears were streaming down the face of Drusilla and she impulsively rose from her seat and coming to the mother, put her arms round the shaking ...
— Drusilla with a Million • Elizabeth Cooper
... waking to a sudden thought, he seized my hand impulsively and spread my fingers open. Having done this, he muttered two or three words of surprise. His face became serious, even solemn, and he treated me with strange obsequiousness. Rushing out of the temple, he went to inform the other ...
— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... indeed!" I cried impulsively. For Christian was, beyond doubt, one of the poorest of our neighbors, and the ...
— Up in Ardmuirland • Michael Barrett
... Gerald well," she said impulsively; "he is such a dear fellow; and I think you'd be good for him—and besides," she hastened to add, with instinctive loyalty, lest he misconstrue, "Gerald would be good for you. We were a great deal ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... one who had always piously, and in such involuted and redundant verbiage, spurned the ways and haunts of the evil-doer. According to the dictates of policy he should have rested content with his advantage over the silenced lad. But his sense of injury engendered a desire of reprisal, and he impulsively carried the war ...
— The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... cried impulsively, and seized Honora's hand. How was it possible to be near madame, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... know any thing by experience, we know that women cast themselves away impulsively on unworthy men, and that men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy w omen. We have the institution of Divorce actually among us, existing mainly because the two sexes are perpetually placing themselves in these anomalous relations toward each other. And ...
— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins
... a school as a pupil-teacher, to be looked down upon and despised by the other girls who were richer than she, to waste half her time in teaching, and let her go away from me? I could not do it!' cried the girl impulsively. Then, as she saw the old man, who had been a lifelong friend of her father's as well as his lawyer, shrug his shoulders, as much as to say she was hopeless, she added more quietly, 'We have never been parted in our lives, Mr. Stacey, and we are ...
— A City Schoolgirl - And Her Friends • May Baldwin
... so sorry for you," cried Carol impulsively. She leaned forward and took Ruth's hand in a gentle way. "And do you mean to say that you'll have to stay here all through the holidays? Why, it ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... a fellow of such family and capacity and fortune should go to the devil merely for the lack of an object in life. In this closer communion with Edith, whose ideas he began to comprehend, Jack dimly apprehended this view, and for the moment impulsively accepted it. ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... being Peter's hero, he must be a good man, who would not be cruel to a woman for sheer love of cruelty. But her shamed pity for Madeleine was stronger than her gratitude; and instead of giving less out of her winnings than she had planned to give, she impulsively decided to give more; this, not because she believed in or liked Madeleine d'Ambre, but because she winced under a sister woman's humiliation. The ugly flash in the eyes that had been wistful, shocked her. She saw that ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... makes his own life," he answered, impulsively, "but you—you were made for happiness. It ...
— The Lighted Way • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... the door-handle, gripped it with a sudden tensity. The next moment she had crossed the room and torn open the doors of the great armoire where Hugh kept his clothes. This, too, was empty—shelves and hanger alike. Impulsively she rang the bell and, when a maid appeared in response, demanded to know the meaning of ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler
... a dozen steps, and then stopped very suddenly. He stood still a moment, as one who is trying to believe something and cannot. He put a hand up over his shoulder and felt his back, and a great thrill shot through him. He grasped the skirt of the coat impulsively and another thrill followed. He snatched the coat from his back, glanced at it, threw it from him and flew back to the tunnel. He sought the spot where the coat had lain—he had to look close, for the light was waning—then to make sure, ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 7. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner
... Herbert impulsively reiterated his joy at meeting her, and averred that no other engagement, either of business or pleasure, could or would stand in his way. Looking up, however, it was with some consternation that he saw they were already within a ...
— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... Wych Hazel, impulsively, forgetting her shyness—she, too, had bowed as they rode by. 'Mr. Rollo, is it a secret, what you said to that child? It looks to me as if she had brought the people out to look ...
— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner
... much Kilian throws himself away," I said, impulsively. "He deserves it for keeping around her all these years. But I do mind that she is your sister, and that she will be mistress ...
— Richard Vandermarck • Miriam Coles Harris
... lustrous eyes to mine, but this time they were wistful and penetrating; then, taking my hand impulsively, she led me to a bench that stood a ...
— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"
... searched at once—everyone there ought to be arrested!" declared Jack, impulsively. ...
— Facing the German Foe • Colonel James Fiske
... reply, but Frank had an idea. Not waiting to hear what the other had to say, he impulsively stepped forward ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge
... impulsively, "let's go and peep through the verandah window. Half an hour is a frightful time, Miss Bibby; he will have cried himself sick. Think what a ...
— In the Mist of the Mountains • Ethel Turner
... fairer than any picture," said I impulsively, "and what is better still, her nature is as sweet ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol
... coming like this," the patient began impulsively. "But to-morrow morning I find I cannot be at home, and I do hate to miss ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... man opened his lips impulsively, but shut them on a second impulse. The daggers in his eyes probed deeper into those of the boy, picking his brains, transfixing the secrets of his soul. No master's eye had ever delved so deep into his life; he felt as though the very worst of ...
— The Camera Fiend • E.W. Hornung
... impulsively, as the car moved off, "what do you see in this sort of thing? How can you stand these people? What have you ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse
... knife had fallen from his hand and now lay almost at her feet. Stooping impulsively, she seized it, while at the same moment he uttered a low chuckle of satisfaction and started to arise. He did not move as one entirely free, but clinging to a burden, and when his shoulders slowly appeared she saw that he was lifting the other man, who still struck ineffectually at his face. ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris
... threw back his head impulsively, as though defying his own feeling. Langham looked at him curiously. The pastoral temper was a novelty to him, and the strong development of it in the undergraduate of his Oxford ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... me, and I suppose he thought I'd be interested. Of course, I was." She leaned toward him a trifle, a mere swaying of her body, like a lily in a breeze, and impulsively he placed his big hand ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony
... was to throw her arms impulsively around the neck of her friend and to kiss her again ...
— Up the Forked River - Or, Adventures in South America • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... issue between capitalism and Socialism been more sharply defined than in Premier Briand's impulsively frank declaration after the strike (though it was later retracted): "I say emphatically, if the laws have not given the government the means of keeping the country master of its railways and the national defense, it would not have hesitated to take ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling
... in pronouncing a masculine "Courage!" The clown approached with a short, trotting step, and shaking his head until his cheeks trembled, he murmured, "My poor old fellow." And the fairy queen, with the sensibility of a sensitive female, threw herself impulsively on the neck of the unhappy father, who, with swollen face, bloodshot eyes, and hanging lip, blackened his face and his gloved hands with the dye of ...
— Ten Tales • Francois Coppee
... to prayer meeting!" she said impulsively as they passed the lighted church, and saw a few faithful going in ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... If yuh want to know what brung me up here, Casey Ryan's the man that can tell yuh to your faces. I come up here to find out who's been gittin' busy with a high-power on my camp down below. Ain't it natural a man'd want to know who'd shot his two burros—an' 'is pardner?" Casey had impulsively decided to throw in Barney for good measure. "Casey Ryan ain't the man to set under a bush an' be shot at like a rabbit. You can ask anybody if Casey ever backed up fer man er beast. I come up here huntin'. Shore I did. It ...
— The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower
... shaken between fits of sobbing and hysterical laughter. She drew the glove, with its fringed gauntlet and its gaudily embroidered horseshoe from her shirt front and ran her fingers along its velvety softness. Impulsively, passionately, she pressed the horseshoe to her lips, and leaping to her feet, thrust the glove inside her shirt and stepping lightly to the table reread the penciled lines upon the crumpled paper, and over and over again she read the signature; RAOUL BETHUNE, known ...
— The Gold Girl • James B. Hendryx
... goose!" laughed the boy impulsively, passing his arm around her. He had done it so often to this nurse ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... burst out Fletcher impulsively. "Would you fancy, to see her stepping by, that her grandfather used to crack the whip over a lot of dirty niggers?" He drove the fact in squarely with big, sure blows of his fist, surveying it with an enthusiasm the other found amazing. "Would ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... with his idea and with wrath over his recent ordeal; moreover, he hated secret and underhand parts, and spoke impulsively: ...
— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... think you are a little hard on your children?" she said; and then impulsively, "No; forgive me! I ought not to put it like that. But do you find it answers to be so strict? Does it ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... girl of my own there," I said impulsively, for I was always longing for Marjie, "but Clayton Anderson and Dave Mead are both college men now." And then I saw how needlessly rude I ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter
... the point of saying something impulsively, but her eyelids suddenly drooped and she checked herself. If Gilbert Warde did not know that the Church granted dispensations in such cases, she saw no ...
— Via Crucis • F. Marion Crawford
... arrival was always the event of the evening, was Bert's grandfather, Squire Stewart, a typical old Scotchman, from every point of view. As the passengers got out, he stood watching them in silent dignity, until Mrs. Lloyd, catching sight of him, ran impulsively up, and taking his face between her two hands, gave him a warm ...
— Bert Lloyd's Boyhood - A Story from Nova Scotia • J. McDonald Oxley
... her brow and eyes tenderly as she spoke, expecting Eva, as she had often done when anything troubled her young soul, to return the caress impulsively, and accept with grateful impetuosity the invitation to the shelter which she offered; but the vile assault of the coarse woman who brought to her knowledge what people were thinking and saying about ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... Miss Greeby abandoned the subject of Chaldea, and of her possible love for Lambert, and exclaimed impulsively, "Why don't you chuck civilization and ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... this, Lotys leaned forward impulsively and stretched out her hand,—a beautiful hand, well-shaped and white as ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... on Christie's head, as she knelt down impulsively before her, and with a soft solemnity that made the words both an assurance and a blessing, ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott
... "No," impulsively. "So far as that goes, I would do it all over again. Your safety means more to me now than ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish
... bureaucrats, and, like another Samson, it pulled down the building in which foreign legislators sought to confine it. The attempt to introduce foreign culture had a still worse effect. The upper classes, charmed and dazzled by the glare and glitter of Western science, threw themselves impulsively on the newly found treasures, and thereby condemned themselves to moral slavery and intellectual sterility. Fortunately—and herein lay one of the fundamental principles of the Slavophil doctrine—the imported civilisation had not at all infected the common people. Through ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace
... every part of the dhow arose shouts and cries. Then there came a splash, then another and another; the next instant he was hurled headforemost overboard, happily his arms getting free as he struggled impulsively to save ...
— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston
... contour of chin and cheek, nor the same thick hair, yellow like the husks of ripe corn or a willow leaf in the autumn. He was just as sure that by some strange chance Sophie Carr stood at that desk as he was sure of himself sitting in an oak chair at a reading table. And he rose impulsively to ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... Eddie was again sent for a letter, and as he came with one in his hand, the mother grasped it impulsively. But, a moment after, thinking her action might appear strange to Eddie, she kissed him affectionately, and said: "Excuse your mamma; my boy, I was so anxious to read papa's letter that I ...
— From Wealth to Poverty • Austin Potter
... my visitor's countenance. "I pray that you do not think such a wrong thing," he said impulsively. "If it is permitted, I ...
— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan |
