It seemed to him that there were words going along with it--incoherent andimpulsive yet very earnest words, appealing to him in strenuous argument and persuasion.
Peggy herself, with her impulsive moods, found it most convenient, and insisted upon having one in any room that she habitually used.
Her impulsive sympathy for this man whom she so greatly liked would not accept the rebuff imposed by this reticence.
All his life he had kept a wheather-eye upon the impulsiveand fickle public.
This gave a new notion to the impulsive little woman.
None knew better than he the impulsive nature of the boy, and such an act upon his part would be in perfect keeping with similar exploits.
The impulsive boy caught up the paddle, and rose to his feet; but it was like unto him who first puts on skates.
As she did so, Arment took an impulsive step forward; but just then the footman, who was evidently alive to his obligations, advanced from the background to let her out.
But he grasped the hand with a quick impulsive grip and with a hasty: "I'm sorry, but I must!
He was impulsive and subject to fits of passion, or, as the old writers say, "of a precipitate disposition.
In 1853, and during part of the subsequent period, our finances were in the hands of a minister whose impulsive nature was upheld by a most imperious will, and who, whatever was his policy, seldom stuck at trifles.
The state," continued he, "will not lose in any way if the warriors and the impulsive heir find amusement for some years along the western border.
For our prince, though impulsive and riotous somewhat, as is usual with young people, knows how to respect both the counsel of sages and the highest institutions of the country.
Fanny sprang to her feet and caught at her companion with impulsive hands, dragging her into the centre of the room.
He smiled now, saying that he had been as impulsive as the merest boy, thanking fortune that he could rejoice in the impulse instead of condemning it--an end which a priori would have seemed much the more probable.
Her reason, dominated by emotion and almost as impulsive as its ruler, had brought her to that conclusion before ever her child was born.
Wagner at his best was impulsive and vehement; suffering from a miserable insinuation as to his incapacity, he grew furious.
Wagner expressed himself with all the enthusiasm his warm, impulsive nature was capable of; he was deeply sensible of the value of his stay here.
Therefore, in his lyrical work, he leaves out for the most part the simpler elements of womanhood and draws the complex, the particular, the impulsive and the momentary.
Both are beyond convention; both have a touch of impulsive passion, of natural wildness, of flower-beauty.
He was impulsive and impatient, and he had conceived a plan whereby he might punish Victor Nevill's perfidy without a public exposure, and at the same time, he fondly hoped, do Jack a good turn.
But it was very trying to a person of her definite impulsive briskness never to know, from one hour or one day to the next, just what occupation was in prospect.
Susan glanced back, before the door closed, and saw her meet the old lady in the hall and give her an impulsive kiss.
It was not that she looked older, although she was now a rather stately woman and not an impulsive girl; he felt that she had known care.
Her proud calm was only on the surface; it covered a generous, impulsive nature.
Although she's impulsive and unconventional, she ought to have seen it was ridiculous to let your son imagine they could be friends.
She's impulsive and generous; I can win her by patience and kindness.
He looked surprised at my remark, and instantly I bethought myself of the character for fastidiousness which Hubert had given him, and resolved to be less impulsive in expressing my feelings.
I see elements in your impulsive nature that must attract those who love the true and unselfish.
I believe, dear, in your unselfish, impulsive way, you have taken the very wisest possible course with him.
Billy Barnes, impulsive as the dash he had made seemed, had not taken the step without duly balancing the dangers and difficulties that would attend it.
He is dreadfully worldly in some ways; but, Mr Erskine, I wonder if you will disapprove of me when I say it has been a comfort to me to find him quite boyish and impulsive in others?
I shrink from perpetuating all Roger's indiscretions and impulsive statements.
A few years previously attacks from any quarter might be expected--Muhammadan slave-traders, impulsive Masai, thievish Wagogo.
Such a man was not very likely, one would have thought, to captivate an ardent, impulsive boy like Elsmere.
She crashed wildly into another subject, and then suddenly it occurred to her impulsive mind that the moment had come to make him acquainted with those dying intentions of his great-uncle which we have already described.
Mrs. Thornburgh gazed at him--her memory flew back over the evening-and her impulsivecontradiction died on her lips.
What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness there was through it all!
