But he was no Vidoeq, to know by instinctwhich of the two trails, the canyon passage or the longer route over the hills, Ford had chosen.
It was instinct rather than intention that made him duck and plunge headlong through the suddenly opened door of the private car at the glimpse of his pursuer standing beside his horse in the open camp street.
My instinct for the mysterious is seldom at fault," said Monsieur Dupont.
I have had some experience of that instinct of yours," the inspector remarked, with a somewhat rueful smile.
I follow on and on--from one point to the next point--often with no more than the instinct of the hunter to guide me.
In the third chapter of his Utilitarianism, Stuart Mill attempts to prove that the sense of justice has developed from the animal instinct of making reprisal for an injury or a loss.
But then, with the instinct of the Northerner, you have chosen the strongest of all stimulants to help you to endure life in the North: war, the excitement of aggression, the Viking raid.
He attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness.
What has happened in recent times in this connection is that the instinct of self-denial and self-sacrifice, everything altruistic, has been glorified as if it were the supreme value of morality.
He saw that he had transformed both masters according to his own needs, and he understood quite well the instinct of self preservation that was here at work.
Older writers had seen in the instinct of retaliation the origin of punishment.
Nietzsche makes a violent, passionate attempt to refer the sum total of false modern morality, not to the instinct of requital or to the feeling of revenge in general, but to the narrower form of it which we call spite, envy and rancune.
What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God.
If successful, it is by reason of a natural instinct which cannot be taught.
It must be the imitative instinctasserting itself," suggests the good woman.
I wrote a poem once--a simple thing, but instinct with longing--while sitting under a tree and listening to the cooing of a pigeon.
With the inbred instinctof the hillsman he swung about and headed for the little, light-blue station at the head of the crooked street.
After a while he became so chilled that the demand for warmth conquered his instinct for caution.
At the steps where they stopped the instinct to stretch out one hand and swing himself up by the rail operated automatically and his wrists got a nasty twist.
Some instinct of fear or secrecy led her to go quietly through all the rooms and search the playground without telling any one of her trouble.
Lisa's weak memory had lost almost all trace of Mr. Grubb as a person but the old instinct of fidelity was still there in solution, and unconsciously influenced her actions.
Spring Blossom accepted the gift with enthusiasm, since a sweet tooth is not a matter of nationality, and ran immediately to tell her mother, a childish instinct also of universal distribution.
Between her instinct for self defense, and her gracious hospitality, she wavers.
But I'm sure he hasn't lost hisinstinct of hospitality," said Saxton.
I was away for so long and father lived down town until his domestic instinct has suffered.
No; but it's his instinct of consideration for the housekeeper that's blunted.
Honesty he knew to be the best policy; he had learned this in his harsh youth, but he had no instinct for the subtler distinctions in matters of conduct.
Tyringham is, it is well known, a place where girls of the proper instinct and spirit acquire a manner that is everywhere unmistakable.
Probably she was Dutch, or Portuguese, although by some instinct I had addressed her in English.
Further, some instinct within seemed to impel me to steer for it, although I had all but made up my mind to go in a totally different direction many more points to the east.
Then, by some instinct perhaps, I awoke suddenly, feeling much refreshed in that sweet mountain air, a new man indeed, and in the moonlight saw Umslopogaas striding towards me.
A startled animal's first instinct is to defend itself.
A snake is mostly a poisonous creature, and his instinct told him to protect his mistress.
So much for the instinct of a woman; but more of this hereafter.
The commercial instinct is proverbially lacking in authors; if it were not we should witness less frequently the spectacle of portly MSS.
The art of re-touching nature so that it becomes ideal, is not in his line at all: the commercial instinct in him is stronger than the artistic, and he sees more business in realism than in idealism.
How wonderful was the instinct by which this little creature, who so seldom heard one word of parental severity or parental fondness, knew so thoroughly the language of both!
As a general rule any little girl feels some glimmerings of emotion towards anything that can pass for a doll, but it does not follow that, when grown older, she will feel as ready an instinct toward every child.
It was the instinct of self-preservation; whatever may be said of their favorite institution on ethical grounds, they had the legal right to protect it from incendiary matter.
His profound patriotism and keen political instinct scented danger, and with his usual impulse to go well forward to meet an enemy, he gave, "The Federal Union: it must be preserved.
I see nothing in them but the instinctof humanity, differing in its outward aspect in different ages, but alike in its meaning and audible voice.
To obey was not only a recognized duty, it was an instinct which not only long training but experience even served to strengthen.
We shall find that he has attained any position of vantage he may occupy by following the laws which our instinct and conscience tell us are Divine.
This new instinct of art abandoned itself without reserve to the pursuit of everything which mankind had ever beheld of the beautiful, or had felt of the pathetic or the sad, or had dreamed of the noble or the ideal.
What may you understand by being instinct with the divine nature?
Ratcliffe, too, had a curiousinstinct for human weaknesses.
He was rather pleased at the instinct which had led him so directly to the right trail.
It is really wonderful what cures nature and instinct effect: notwithstanding the extreme cold, no external dressings are applied, because the animal must not be prevented from licking its wound.
He may have come thus far on his way to his village, and given out," and now it was Bob who urged the pace, for his professional instinct had been aroused.
The sight of those gleaming eyes told him what had happened, and it was perhaps more through instinct than anything else that he immediately pushed his musket forward and let fly at the nearest pair.
Sandy was a bit the quicker in firing, for, being nervous by nature, he knew how to aim more by instinct than by going through a set habit.
This the little fellow did, and no doubt gladly, as this surcease from actual conflict, short though it was, must have afforded space for the natural instinct of self-preservation to reassert itself.
The Negro race in Hayti, in order to obtain and to guard what it calls its freedom, has outraged every humane instinct and falsified every benevolent hope.
He now knew that any further advance on his part would probably result in bringing on a combat--a combat, moreover, in which both armies might become involved, for his military instinct truly foreshadowed what was coming.
The shock of battle seems to have aroused all the warrior's instinct within him.
Without the instinct of self-preservation, which causes the sea- anemone to contract its tentacles, or the fish to dash into its hover, species would be extermined wholesale by involuntary suicide.
I believe this dread of size to be merely, like all other superstitions, a result of bodily fear; a development of the instinct which makes a little dog run away from a big dog.
On the etymology no one will depend who knows the remarkable absence of any etymological instinct in the ancients, in consequence of their weak grasp of that sound inductive method which has created modern criticism.
Such an instinct of national life was neither rude nor contemptible, nor need we despise it because it was opposed to the theory of the middle ages in Europe.
No, the night had been too dark, but instinct told him that here was the deserting mountaineer.
His instinct did for him what sight and reason would have failed to do.
And some sureinstinct in his heart cried, "Beware, beware!
Left to themselves, with the body between them, father and son fell into a silence, instinct with the dread of estranging speech.
It was young Mr. Surtaine who solved the mystery, by a flash of that newspaper instinct with which Ellis had early credited him.
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