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• She is not all instinct. (10)
• He was here upon instinct. (9)
• Caroline inquired by instinct. (10)
• By instinct she used those words. (8)
• Her keen instinct served her so far. (10)
• My going there was an instinct, too. (10)
• Instinct told me when the hateful day was at hand. (21)
• Business instinct bids there be a parade without fail. (21)
• She stayed by instinct utterly still, closing her eyes. (8)
• Instinct prompting to the step, was a worthless adviser. (10)
• His instinct told him that what the agent had said was true. (8)
• His own instinct had been firm in this matter from the first. (8)
• That instinct which tells us we are loved has spoken within me. (6)
• Impossible to keep it from her, now that her instinct was roused! (8)
• Her incomparable instinct for the wrong subject had not failed her. (8)
• His reason agreed, his instinct rebelled; he could not have said why. (8)
• It must have been some cowardly instinct that had prompted her to fly. (10)
• Instinct, and a general softness told her that she was back to back with her granddaughter. (8)
• But honest passion has an instinct that can be safer than conscious wisdom. (10)
• The instinct to couple, starved within herself, was always at work in June. (8)
• But on Saturday morning the true Stock Exchange instinct triumphed within him. (8)
• You are a soldier by instinct, my good Robert: your first appeal is to force. (10)
• You are a soldier by instinct, my good Robert: your first appeal is to force. (22)
• I am not prepared to contest the statement that you have a political instinct. (10)
• She rose, without knowing what she did, in an unconscious instinct for flight. (13)
• By instinct he ran silently on the grass edge, and Markey, imitating, ran behind. (8)
• Her eyes had seen deeper than his; her instinct had received a message from Fate. (8)
• Scared, but with all protective instinct roused, she leaned out, straining to see. (8)
• He preserved game rigorously, and the deduction was the work of instinct with him. (10)
• A prompt instinct warned me that I must show him as much Beltham as I could summon. (10)
• No, it was not exactly resignation, it was rather sheer lack of commercial instinct. (8)
• He dismissed the feline instinct to prolong our torture, and delivered himself briskly. (10)
• They roused him to stand by them, and were his own form of instinct, handsomely clothed. (10)
• Instinct telling her what to do, she laid her head against his chest, and sobbed bitterly. (8)
• To be held a prisoner by that most secret of all his instincts, the instinct for authority! (8)
• But he was growing slowly comforted; and the instinct to excuse his fear revived within him. (8)
• And yet he sometimes felt as if the family bolt was shot, their possessive instinct dying out. (8)
• Lord Ormont had been on guard then and always: his instinct of commandership kept him on guard. (10)
• By instinct she had seized on the boldest answer; and there was nothing to be told from her face. (8)
• If she had shrunk away he would have seized her, but as though by instinct she let it rest there. (8)
• Her instinct judged it impossible she could ever have yielded her heart to a man lacking courage. (10)
• Since Modestine had shown such a fancy for beaten roads, I tried her instinct in this predicament. (2)
• By instinct he knew that the weak spot in that old man was fear of insecurity for his grandchildren. (8)
• Doubtless her sharp instinct served her by telling her that her contempt would hurt him shrewdly now. (10)
• There was a start among them, as if that terrible noise communicated an instinct of obedience, but no more. (10)
• Her instinct was alarmed, and the instinct in such matters of this excellent woman was keen. (8)
• In music he owed his development chiefly to Balakireff, though he composed at an early age, almost by instinct. (3)
• For she had in large measure that rare instinct for democracy, the love of being like others in joy and sorrow. (13)
• At this disenchanted moment a little lame duck of her own breed was welcome to June, so homoeopathic by instinct. (8)
• For a month she subjected Mr. Matthew Weyburn to the microscope of her observation and the probe of her instinct. (10)
• Whether it was due to his previous experience or to an instinct for luxury, he was, in fact, very much one of them! (13)
• At this juncture Soames rose, ruffled in that deep instinct of preparation for the future which guided his existence. (8)
• But it was his instinct so to act, and in times of trial great natures alone are not at the mercy of their instincts. (10)
• He looked at that square, bearded man, and the infallible instinct, christened so wickedly by Mr. Paramor, guided him. (8)
• His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. (4)
• That evening the instinct vouchsafed at times to lovers in place of reason caused him to pack his bag and go to Cannes. (8)
• In those conscious that their birth has caused death or even too great suffering, there is sometimes this hostile instinct. (8)
• It was contrary to almost every instinct of one who was practical not only by character, but by habit of life and training. (8)
• And all that afternoon and evening she talked away so lightly that Lord Dennis, but for his instinct, would have been deceived. (8)
• His dogged instinct had fought against the knowledge as long as he could, and now that it was certain he fought against it still. (8)
• It is not a desire to oppress, but a warning instinct of professional deterioration, that causes sardonic smiles and harsh flings. (21)
• With her spirit thus confused, and her mind so at variance with itself, she was really acting on the simple instinct of compassion. (8)
• It seemed, and it was, an insult to the trodden people, who read it as a lesson for cravens: their instinct commonly hits the bell. (10)
• He sat there a long time dreaming his career, faithful to the scut of his possessive instinct, warming himself even with its failures. (8)
• It had become by now so much a matter of instinct that combative consultations, which bulk so large in married lives, had no place in theirs. (8)
• Just reason based on valiant blood, The instinct bred afield would match To pipe thereof a swelling flood, Were men of Earth made wise in watch. (10)
• The cases of child-stealing one reads of in the newspapers now and then may all, I am satisfied, be traced to this natural and healthy instinct. (14)
• Aunt Hester, with her instinct for avoiding the unpleasant, here chimed in: Did Soames think they would make Mr. Chamberlain Prime Minister at once? (8)
• When she had passed along a certain distance, a shiver seized her, and her instinct pushed her toward the lighted shops, where there were pictures. (10)
• Of the two he was the foolisher fellow; but quacks have cured incomprehensible maladies, and foolish fellows have an instinct for eccentric actions. (10)
• As in leaving her home, so in returning, she followed her instinct, and her instinct told her to avoid unnecessary fuss and suffering. (8)
• The opposition newspapers, with sure instinct, felt the irresistible force of public opinion on his side, and so they ceased their clamor very quickly. (16)

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