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Example sentences for "common impulse"

  • The whole company rose, actuated by a common impulse, and drank the health standing; and such was the pathos of the old squire's speech, that there were eyes among those present that were not free from tears.

  • Actuated by a common impulse of humanity, Philip for the moment forgot their quarrel, and stepped with all speed to fetch it.

  • Her forebodings terrified her hearers, and, by a common impulse, they rose and moved away from her.

  • Eureka, that his audience rose by a common impulse, and in another minute stood grouped round the model in the adjoining chamber.

  • By a common impulse, the gentle wanderers moved silently to the spot.

  • Business was suspended by a common impulse; streets were almost deserted except by squads of military patrol; shutters of stores, and even many residences, remained unopened throughout the day.

  • Thomas Lincoln and his Pigeon Creek relatives and neighbors could not forever withstand the contagion of this example, and at length they yielded to the irrepressible longing by a common impulse.

  • In this Senator Douglas, doubly conspicuous by his championship of the Nebraska Bill in Congress, was expected to play the leading part, while the opposition, by a common impulse, called upon Lincoln to answer him.

  • At length, one of those low murmurs that are so apt to disturb a multitude, was heard, and the whole nation arose to their feet by a common impulse.

  • As if actuated by a common impulse, his movement was imitated by his companions, and, together, they rushed down the pass to the friendly chasm, with a rapidity that rendered the scattering fire of their enemies perfectly harmless.

  • These men were nearly contemporaneous with Owen, and all three evidently obeyed a common impulse.

  • As if actuated by a common impulse, his movement was imitated by his companions, and, together they rushed down the pass to the friendly chasm, with a rapidity that rendered the scattering fire of their enemies perfectly harmless.

  • At length one of those low murmurs, that are so apt to disturb a multitude, was heard, and the whole nation arose to their feet by a common impulse.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boiled lobster; charming little; common carrier; common carriers; common consent; common discourse; common experience; common fire; common language; common progenitor; common purpose; common resident; common salt; common school; common source; common temperatures; commonly call; commonly understood; commonly used; hereditary disease; little annoyed; make warre; naval battle; rushed upon; with other; woman should