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Impulsively   /ɪmpˈəlsɪvli/   Listen
Impulsively

adverb
1.
In an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions.  Synonym: impetuously.






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"Impulsively" Quotes from Famous Books



... edge of the shaft, with his foot in the loop and one hand on the rope, ready to descend. His elder brother, Tom, stood at one end of the windlass and the third mate at the other. Jack paused before swinging off, looked up at his brother, and impulsively held ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

... Merrivale began impulsively, and pulled herself up, and bit her red lip. "Jacky," she said hurriedly, "I'm ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... reading the few farewell words that Frances had addressed to her, still oppressed her mind. There were moments when she vaguely understood, and bitterly lamented, the motives which had animated her unhappy friend. Other moments followed, when she impulsively resented the act which had thrown her on her own resources, at the very time when she had most need of the encouragement that could be afforded by the sympathy of a firmer nature than her own. She began to doubt the steadiness of her resolution—without Frances to ...
— Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins

... wound was deeper even than this. To give herself in friendship impulsively was her temperament, though not many were judged worthy of such giving. This blue-eyed scamp had won her as no man ever had before. She had seen him through a glamour. Now his character stood stripped in its meanness. Her sweet trust was crushed. In the reaction that was upon her she ...
— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine

... president! That was his first thought. One glance across the room to where the chief executive stood, in conversation with two other gentlemen, reassured him. The choleric blue eyes of the president had opened a little at the sound, then he calmly resumed the conversation. Mr. Grimm impulsively started toward the little group, but already a cordon was being drawn there—a cordon of quiet-faced, keen-eyed men, unobstrusively forcing their way through the crowd. There was Johnson, and Hastings, and Blair, and half a ...
— Elusive Isabel • Jacques Futrelle

... his first act, before rising, was to exclaim, in a confused manner, 'Ah—you have come—thank you, Berta!' then impulsively to seize her hand, as it hung beside his head, and kiss it passionately. He stood up, ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy

... "I am honored." Impulsively she took the garland of flowers which she had been making and put it around his neck. When she came close, the subtle perfume of her hair was unmistakable—like the smell of pine needles on a mountain trail; ...
— Impact • Irving E. Cox

... in her tones was so real that Paul made no further effort to persuade her. So, lifting his hat, he stood waiting for her to take leave of him. Once more she stretched out her hand impulsively, and he took ...
— High Noon - A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn • Anonymous

... 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 emergencies ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... love it!!" said Lucile, impulsively. "Ever since we came back from camp I've been wanting to make a great big camp-fire. This seems such a ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield

... for this little crumb of humanity?" I impulsively asked, forgetting too speedily my determination not to converse with him more than was ...
— Medoline Selwyn's Work • Mrs. J. J. Colter

... to cry over spilt milk, and I suppose spilt flour is just as bad," and he took her hand. "Let us see if Mr. Atkins hasn't some more." But Polly hung back; still, she must go into the store and get Joel. So she started forward again, and said impulsively, "I won't get any more flour, please, Mr. Henderson, but Joel's there, and he ...
— The Adventures of Joel Pepper • Margaret Sidney

... fearful that the remark might cause an eruption which she could not control. She cried impulsively, seeking to divert the ...
— The Devil - A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience • Joseph O'Brien

... 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

... and the intense sorrows which weighed upon heart and mind, that yellow gleam startled the mind into a direction remote from philosophy, quickened the heart to a beat that chimed with no household affections. Involuntarily I stooped; impulsively I struck the block with the hatchet, or tomahawk, I carried habitually about me, for the purpose of marking the trees that I wished to clear from the waste of my broad domain. The quartz was shattered by the stroke, and left disburied ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... five she dined at home with her husband. His simplicity, good sense, and kind-heartedness touched her and moved her up to enthusiasm. She was constantly jumping up, impulsively hugging his head and ...
— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... see . . ." I began impulsively, then abandoned the attempt. For how could she see, being woman, the "far-off, disastrous, unattainable things," when she, as she so stoutly averred, had ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London

... watched the door as it slowly opened, admitting— Betty! Betty, sweeter and more beautiful than he had ever seen her. Her eyes widened at sight of him, and she ran forward impulsively. ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope

... 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 know you mustn't mind if, just at first, Madame ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton

... in silent attention with his elbows on his knees, and now, impulsively, he dropped his face into his hands. ...
— Madame de Mauves • Henry James

... seemed to me that life could hold no greater joy than it contained when I took her hand and we stepped down to the front of the stage bowing to our enthusiastic audience. When we reached the little dressing-room, where the other performers were applauding as wildly as the audience, she impulsively threw both her arms round me and kissed me, while I struggled to ...
— The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man • James Weldon Johnson

... Impulsively the girl swept into that part of the room within the view of Steve. She knelt in front of Pasquale and caught ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine

... night she threw her arms round his neck impulsively. "Don't quite forget me, Paul. It would break my heart. I've only you ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke

... sir," he exclaimed, drying his eyes, and pouring into the words a world of expression, which it was no light pleasure to have heard. But Eric spoke less impulsively, and while the two boys were stammering out their deep gratitude, a timid hand knocked at ...
— Eric • Frederic William Farrar

... you 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

... all the superior refinement of his intellect to that of Jessie, unaware of what Kenelm was driving at; while Jessie, pressing her hands tightly together, turned pale, and with a frightened hurried glance towards Will's face, answered, impulsively,— ...
— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Nyoda frankly, "I believe it is. You do so many things impulsively that you never would have done on second thought. Take the time, for instance, that you jumped off the tower into the canoe and upset it. That was a very dangerous thing to do. You might have landed on top of one of those girls and hurt her badly, or been hurt yourself. Even ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods - Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping • Hildegard G. Frey

... not until late in the fall of that year, the year 1915, when the crises, both at home and abroad, seemed rapidly approaching, that Pen took up for earnest consideration the question of his enlistment in the National Guard. Given by nature to acting impulsively, he nevertheless, in these days, weighed carefully any proposed line of conduct on his part which might have an important bearing on his future. But he resolved, after due consideration, to join ...
— The Flag • Homer Greene

... nothing. A browbeaten glance, almost of misery, was all she gave him. He took a slow step away from her; then turned suddenly back and, stooping, impulsively kissed her cheek, taking her as much by surprise as ever a woman was taken ...
— The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • Thomas Hardy

... Mrs. Chiverton's face, and she looked proudly at Bessie, standing in her bright freedom before her. Bessie caught her breath; she saw that she had given pain, and was sorry: "You don't care for my nonsense—you remember me at school," she whispered, and laid her hand impulsively on the slim folded hands ...
— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr

... the little white-mittened fingers in her own and kissed them impulsively. Then she rose and placed the ...
— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond

... she quickly, 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

... Nellen excitedly arrayed them. Alston Choate had come to call, and following him appeared an elderly lady whom Jeffrey greeted with more outward warmth than he had even shown his father. Alston Choate had walked in with a simple directness as though he were there daily, and Anne impulsively went forward to him. She felt she knew him very well. They were quite friends. Alston, smiling at her and taking her hand on the way to the colonel and Jeff, seemed to recognise that, and greeted her less formally ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

... a definite idea of finding a small apartment and making it as homey as possible. I loathe apartments usually," she added, impulsively, "but we must have a home and I can't assume a whole house. We will take our old things and fix them over, and the worst of them we'll pass on to someone needing them badly enough not to mind what they are." She was quite frank in admitting the ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley

... are!" he impulsively ejaculated. "I've been worrying over this for ten minutes. Thank ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton

... recovering his breath; and he hurled a fat ball—thoughtfully retained in hand throughout his agony—to such effect that his interrogator disappeared backward from the fence without having taken any initiative of his own in the matter. His comrade impulsively joined him upon the ground, ...
— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington

... of his ill humor Armstrong flushed penitently. "You've never offended, never. On the contrary, you're only too patient with my tantrums." He jerked himself together impulsively. "I didn't mean anything by that at all. I'm blooming glad to see you prosper. ...
— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge

... Toni spoke impulsively, sorry for the young woman even in the midst of her own numbing grief; and the other turned round in astonishment at hearing ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes

... triumphant entry of the 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 sparkling ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... and turned a twilight face to him. For a moment they scrutinised one another. To her he was no more than a dim outline. Impulsively ...
— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells

... me!" he cried, lifting himself impulsively on one elbow and holding out his hand for it. She came silently over to the bedside and placed it on his hand. He studied the title wonderingly, wonderingly turned some of the leaves, and at last, smiling with wonder still, looked up at her. And then he forgot the ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen

... impulsively I defended the absent. "Girls go mad about him. He has to keep them off with a stick. He's got other things to think of than girls, things he believes are more important—though, of course, he's mistaken. ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson

... eyes met in a long, still look. In each heart behind the stillness was a storm of indescribable sweetness. Henry leaned forward, his face grown very pale, and impulsively ...
— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne

... glowing face upon her she caught his enthusiasm, and said impulsively, "And in the front of the battle I would be, if I were a man, as ...
— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe

... at her roses. They were white, some incurved and holy, others expanded in an ecstasy. The tree was dark as a shadow. She lifted her hand impulsively to the flowers; she went forward and touched them ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence

... hair, and I would kick any boy that called it carrots," cried Marjory stoutly; and she took hold of a strand of it and kissed it impulsively. "Oh, I do think you're such a darling!" she said. "I'm going to be so happy now ...
— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke

... over rather impulsively to the crude skepticism of her friends; then, finding no soul or comfort in their theories, she invented for herself a creed of duty and morality, without however tracing either to its origin. She was naturally a religious ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long

... already entering the room behind him, there came two quick tugs at the rope. Instantly Bradley made the rest of the strands fast about the shaft, slipped into the black tube and began a hurried descent toward the river. An instant later he stood waist deep in water beside the girl. Impulsively she reached toward him and grasped his arm. A strange thrill ran through him at the contact; but he only cut the rope from about her body and lifted her to the little shelf at the ...
— Out of Time's Abyss • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... Impulsively she sprang for the prim white mirror that capped her prim white bureau and stood staring up into her own entrancing, bright-colored Novia Scotian reflection with tense ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... impulsively glad as she had been the last time she saw Effie. The doctor's death—the death he had died for her—seemed removed into the background; her existence was absorbed in pleasure, in gayety and excitement. ...
— A Girl in Ten Thousand • L. T. Meade

... dear, Bess!" declared Nan, impulsively hugging her friend again. "But you mustn't ask him, honey. It wouldn't be right, ...
— Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, The Old Lumberman's Secret • Annie Roe Carr

... quivered; her hands reached out toward his impulsively. "I don't know why I keep saying things I know are not true. I'm ...
— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer

... 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 ...
— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... Dickie began softly, his mouth puckered to its special elvish little smile. Then he met her eyes lapping him round with such velvet tenderness—that Dickie suddenly knew he was loved, knew that impulsively she was going to tell him so, and breathlessly happier than he had ever been before, ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

... the tear in the paper, as Dillon only went on pushing his sack deep down in his pocket, while Mac lifted the Examiner. All but the two millionaires bent forward and scrutinised the table. O'Flynn impulsively ran one lone hand over the place where the gold-heap had lain, his other hand held ready at the table's edge to catch any sweepings. None! But the result of O'Flynn's action was that those particles of gold that that fallen through the paper were driven into the ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

... the sense to look over, and there was the helmsman, who had impulsively jumped overboard, anxious to come back. He yelled and swam lustily like a merman, keeping up with the ship. We threw him a rope, and presently he stood amongst us streaming with water and very crestfallen. The captain had surrendered the wheel, and apart, elbow on rail and chin in hand, gazed ...
— Youth • Joseph Conrad

... it is! I welcome you here. You shall not go," she cried, impulsively, and both little hands were tagging at his arm. He had found the railing, and was pulling himself towards the gate, but her words, her clinging hands, were ...
— The Deserter • Charles King

... have one, so don't bother to buckle on your armor." She relented as she looked into his miserable eyes, and took his hand impulsively. "I'm sorry...sorry....I wish...you are worth it...but it's ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... of horses on all fours while she would ride on their necks with naked thighs in order to obtain the pleasurable sensation of close contact. With one special friend she would ride facing backward, and leaning forward to embrace her body impulsively, and at the same time pressing the neck closely between her thighs, would urinate.[55] Fere has recorded the interesting case of a man who, having all his life after puberty been subject to monthly attacks of sexual excitement, after the age of 45 completely lost the ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... of you to come—though I thought you would," Miss Gibson said impulsively, as we shook hands. "You have been so sympathetic and human—both you and Dr. Thorndyke—so free from professional stiffness. My aunt went off to see Mr. Lawley ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman

... herself before the stripling, impulsively clasping her arms around him to shield him, and then throwing up one arm to ward off a blow, looked ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... I did not run away from home was my lack of funds. I was penniless, for all my money was with the securities I threw into the sea. I was inclined, however, to congratulate myself upon this extravagant proceeding, for the reason that had I acted less impulsively I might not have detected Roger's selfishness until it was too late. But when just before my father went away he handed me a roll of bank-bills, the color rose to my cheeks, and I began to reflect upon the enormity of my offence. He told me that ...
— A Romantic Young Lady • Robert Grant

... at once. She got to her feet as quickly as she could, and held out her hand to him. "You are a good man, and a friend worth having, I know, and I shall like you to be my friend, Mr. Soolsby," she said impulsively. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... near the hearth. As he walked past her she moved forward impulsively, as though to detain him: their eyes met, and he saw that hers were of the same swimming blue as when he had left her to drive ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton

... a similar Silk. She felt it Between her Fingers, Measured its Width with her Eye, and then said Impulsively, "Oh, That is just What I Want. ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various

... to his feet, laying his hands on Commines' shoulders impulsively, one upon each. And if proof were needed of the relations between these two, it would be found in the spontaneous frankness of the gesture: Philip de Commines was not a man with whom to take liberties, but there stood La Mothe almost ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond

... that 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 and ...
— The One Woman • Thomas Dixon

... shore, but Robert started violently. If fancy were not playing tricks with him he saw the shadow of Garay once more. The figure had appeared about twenty yards ahead of him and then it was gone. Robert was filled with fierce anger that the man should show such brazen effrontery, and impulsively he pursued. Profiting by his experience with the spy, he now had a pistol in his pocket, and clutching the butt of it he ...
— The Sun Of Quebec - A Story of a Great Crisis • Joseph A. Altsheler

... Enter freely and of your own free will!" He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man. ...
— Dracula • Bram Stoker

... our more profound, spiritual writers. The will is often regenerate and right; the will often bends, as Bunyan has it, to that which is good; but behind the will and beneath the will the heart is still full of passions, affections, inclinations, dispositions that are evil; instinctively, impulsively, involuntarily evil, even 'in natures most sincere.' And hence arises a conflict, a combat, a death-grip, an agony, a hell on earth, that every regenerate and advancing soul of man is full of His will is right. If his will is wrong; if he chooses ...
— Bunyan Characters - Third Series - The Holy War • Alexander Whyte

... "Yes!" she 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, ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune

... broke forth from him aloud, as he started to his feet, and stretched his hands, impulsively, out before him, ...
— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... can, and I—I—" She faltered to a full stop. She was earnest and quiet, and there had been something in her tone, too—as very often there was—that showed how young she was. "Oh!" she began again, turning to him impulsively, "I have thought about you since that evening in the garden, and I have wished I could know you. I can't be quite clear how it happened, but even those few minutes left a number of strong impressions about you. And the strongest was that you were one with whom I could talk of a great ...
— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington

... frankness? Even if 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; ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow

... 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 ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin

... simple caprice. Guzman Bento, usually full of fanciful fears and brooding suspicions, had sudden accesses of unreasonable self-confidence when he perceived himself elevated on a pinnacle of power and safety beyond the reach of mere mortal plotters. At such times he would impulsively command the celebration of a solemn Mass of thanksgiving, which would be sung in great pomp in the cathedral of Sta. Marta by the trembling, subservient Archbishop of his creation. He heard it sitting in a gilt armchair placed ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... except one on her forehead, but the delicacy of her complexion was gone, her eyes had lost their brilliancy and her face looked older. When Tusher vowed and protested that this was not so, in the presence of my lady, the lad broke out impulsively, and said, "It is true; my mistress is not near so handsome as she was!" On which poor Lady Castlewood gave a rueful smile, and a look into a little glass she had, which showed her, I suppose, that what the stupid boy said was only too true, for she turned away from the ...
— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... emotions, she impulsively opened a little gold pencil with which she had been toying and wrote rapidly upon one of the blank pages of her hymnal, which later she surreptitiously tore out. When the service was ended and Armitage ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry

... leaves the room he points out some proof of unexampled magnanimity on the part of the hotel; as, for instance, the fact that the management has not charged a penny for sending up Miss Monroe's breakfast trays. Francesca impulsively presses two shillings into his honest hand and remembers afterwards that only one breakfast was served in our bedrooms during that particular week, and that it was ...
— Penelope's English Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... The girl bent impulsively and kissed her with tender roughness. "It is going to do that—it is!" she cried, and her voice broke. Then: "Never mind how the money came, dear,—invalids mustn't be curious. It strains their nerves. Wait till ...
— The Militants - Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

... connections. As impulsively I stood up, I saw through the window the figure of Coniston on the deck watching ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 • Various

... me something to make the offer," she said impulsively. "The money would have been ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm

... then spoke impulsively, walking towards the door as he did so. "Let Mr. Beecot give me that opal serpent," he said, "and he shall have Sylvia and enough to ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume

... said wistfully. "I hate a country where horrible things happen under the surface and the top is just gray and quiet and so dull it makes you want to scream. Lone Morgan lied to me. He lied—he lied!" She hugged the cat impulsively and rubbed her cheek absently against it, so ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower

... is safe, then I think I can return to the Sisters and live as I long to. It will be a good match, much better than I ever hoped for, and she loves, which is even more blessed to contemplate." Vittoria laid her hands impulsively upon his arm. "Meanwhile I cannot refuse such aid as I can give you, for you have already suffered too much through me. You have suffered, ...
— The Net • Rex Beach

... moment she stopped dead, with a startled look in her eyes; then, with a little scream of delight she darted forward, seized my hands, and impulsively kissed me on both cheeks in the Spanish fashion, ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood

... the manager. Then he put out his hand impulsively. "I beg your pardon. If I had known—but if we're ever out of this mess, I may give a better account of ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham

... Sally Madeira!" cried Miss Blair impulsively, and then looked immediately convicted, for Miss Shelley had got only ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young

... 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

... 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 farce. And about the ...
— Tremendous Trifles • G. K. Chesterton

... her hands and drew her over the threshold. She came gladly. She must have seen the agony of fear, of questioning in my face, for after a swift look up at me she said impulsively: ...
— Five Nights • Victoria Cross

... lovely, so lithely young, as she flung the disagreeable words at him, that Brimbecomb impulsively made a step toward her. He was unused to such treatment and manners. That this girl, sprung from some unknown corner, dared to flaunt her dislike in his face, made him only the more ...
— From the Valley of the Missing • Grace Miller White

... course not. (She speaks in the most matter-of-fact tone possible. Then, more impulsively, the girl slips down from the bench, and sits by him on the around.) Do you think I shall make as good a match as my sisters, Guido? Do you think some great rich nobleman will marry me very soon? And shall I like the court! What ...
— The Jewel Merchants - A Comedy In One Act • James Branch Cabell

... and together again, Jack! Come here! I want to know that you are alive and this is not all a dream,' she began impulsively, yet behind the impulse lay a calculated design. She owed her life to Valerie's courage, but that weighed as nothing in comparison with the knowledge that in some indefinite manner the girl stood between Rallywood and herself, that ...
— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard

... part of Sam, but he could not bear to see anyone in tears, and so he was a little extra-critical just now. His keen eyes had also narrowly watched Frank, and as he saw the tears in his eyes and noticed his visible emotion, even fun-loving Sam was touched, and he impulsively exclaimed: ...
— Winter Adventures of Three Boys • Egerton R. Young

... in fact, that he could hear the beating of her heart—but she still seemed entirely unconscious of his presence. Losing his reserve and self-control, he impulsively grasped at her hands, then fell on his knees, and then, dumfounded, struggled to his feet. Her hands seemed to slip through his; he was not able to touch her, and she was still unaware of his presence. Suddenly a whole flood of light and the truth burst upon him. He had passed painlessly ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds • J. J. Astor

... It must be a forlorn place if they need help and can't get it. I think they said he and his mother live alone, but I shan't care how forlorn it is if only Mrs. Carder is like—like—you, for instance!" The girl laid her hand impulsively ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham

... Impulsively Billy scrambled to a kneeling position, and his gaze followed Dave's. The two spies then beheld the figure of a man seated in the stern of a dug-out canoe that carried a mast and sail and was coming around the ...
— The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty • Robert Shaler

... call for an answer and he made none. He stepped to his horse's head, lifted the wincing forefoot very tenderly, and stooping close to it looked at it for a long time. The girl was behind the broad, stooping back. Impulsively her hand crept into the bosom of her dress, her face going steadily white as her fingers curved and tightened about the grip of the small calibre revolver she carried there. And then she jerked ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory

... a way of breaking down barriers and Bruce impulsively took in his the other hand that lay ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart

... impulsively. "Frank! I'll never be able to repay you for this, not if I live to be a ...
— Null-ABC • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

... thanks from you, Keeko," he said impulsively. "Thanks only need to come from folks whom you help feeling you don't fancy doing it. You've handed me the sort of happiness that makes a feller feel like getting onto his hands and knees and thanking God for. Say, I can't talk to you same as I fancy to, and I guess it's not my fault. You don't ...
— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum

... impulsively, "my being late had nothing at all to do with Delia this time. I was ...
— Thistle and Rose - A Story for Girls • Amy Walton

... a slight movement of putting out her hand. The gesture was coldly made; it might, indeed, have been checked, and gone for nothing. But Gifford, keenly on the alert for a sign of regard, was quick to take the hand and press it impulsively. ...
— The Hunt Ball Mystery • Magnay, William

... greatest astonishment. He looked eagerly in our hero's face for a moment, then impulsively threw his arms around Ben's neck, and ...
— Ben, the Luggage Boy; - or, Among the Wharves • Horatio Alger

... thousands of dollars. The country looked well for copper, with its heavy cap of dacite and the manganese filling in the veins; and it was only a day's journey in each direction from the big copper camps of Ray and Globe. He turned impulsively and reached for his purse, but as he was about to plank down his five hundred dollars in advance he remembered Mother ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge

... was speaking in his own favor, for he knew not the need for such speaking, he believed her to be defending her father. He grasped her hands impulsively. ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise

... smile on Mr. Linden's face, was succeeded by a very deep gravity,—once or twice the lips parted, impulsively—then took their former firm set; and shading his eyes with his hand he looked into ...
— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner

... girl cried impulsively. "I'll bring them up from New York to-morrow! I'll bring some pictures, too. The Alps and Venice and the snapshots I took on the Nile! You seem to know how ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon

... from the woman before him to the young companion whom he missed from her side. In these days of mourning you could never tell who might be still in the land of the living, but he cried impulsively: ...
— Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain



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