Myron held her hand now with an involuntary fervor of his own, not so much because she bade him, but with the purpose of restraining her.
Djalma having stopped short, with involuntary indignation, Rodin said to him: "Let me beg you to continue, my dear prince.
She soon felt a growing interest, an involuntary emotion, as she read more of these private thoughts of the young sempstress.
An involuntary cry from Mysie interrupted the story-teller.
At length the rigidity of Robert's whole being relaxed in an involuntaryhowl like that of a wild beast, and he turned and rushed from the house in a helpless agony of horror.
Yes, you are; greatly changed," was his involuntary acknowledgment in his surprise.
He laid his open palm upon the page with an involuntary movement, as if he would guard it from the eyes of his wife.
A movement of fear escaped her, and she drew involuntary nearer to Lionel, as if for protection.
Catherine, whose back was towards it, hastily turned; and an involuntary exclamation broke from her lips.
I have already shewn that this influence can excite contractions in involuntary muscles, through the medium of their nerves.
I now thought I had discovered a certain method, by which I could ascertain the effect of Galvani's influence, upon a very important, involuntary muscle, the human iris.
And certainly no reason can be assigned, a priori, why it should not act equally upon every description of involuntary muscles; upon those which make a part of the minutest vessels in the body, as well as upon the heart, or upon the iris.
When the infliction ceased, an involuntary feeling of thanksgiving to God, for the fortitude with which I had been enabled to endure it, arose in my soul, to which I began aloud to give utterance.
That every American citizen who retains a human being in involuntary bondage, as his property is (according to Scripture) a man-stealer.
Her youth, her charms, her languishing eyes, moistened with some involuntary tears, attract every one's attention.
The extreme beauty of this young stranger, and the involuntary comparison she could not help making between him and her prosaic husband, did not increase her happiness or content.
And if any discourse tended, however remotely, to raise the idea of love, an involuntary sigh seldom failed to steal from his bosom.
Formerly he would probably have thoughtlessly tried to seduce her; but now he felt an involuntary respect for her diligent activity, and her love for her husband impressed him.
Willoughby made an involuntary exclamation, when he perceived that the door of his mother's room was open.
An involuntary motion was made towards the rifle he carried, by the major; but the next look told him that the living Indian was Nick.
To glance at the contents was an act so natural and involuntary as to anticipate reflection.
This was a sudden and involuntary announcement, though it was best it should be so under the circumstances.
Although the wheels were locked and the momentum retarded, the car continued its involuntary glide.
One of the lads, uttering an involuntary cry of pain, clapped his left hand to his right arm.
Without a moment's hesitation the rifle flew to his shoulder, and the prolonged silence was broken by the sharp report, while an involuntary half-suppressed cry proved that he had not missed his mark.
Witness myinvoluntary guest and the notes and the cigar-case," David said.
Frank Littimer made an involuntary gesture, and then he drew back.
The common herd of humanity feels an involuntary respect for any person who can rise above it, and is not over-particular as to the means by which they rise.
Perhaps she feels a little, vague, involuntary regret for dismissing me so abruptly.
With an involuntary sigh she sped down to the library.
Thurston sprang to his feet with an involuntary exclamation of joy.
At one time she became so absorbed, making anxious and involuntary comparisons between her relatives and Thurston's, that she forgot to pour out the tea, while Jennings stood anxiously watching her, waiting for the cups.
But no one else had crossed with them; and, as they stood at the turnstiles, all they could see of the grounds beyond seemed so dark and silent that they began to have involuntary misgivings.
Leander was left with this terrible warning ringing in his ears: the goddess would hold him to his involuntary pledge.
Interesting account of experiments made in a Psychological Laboratory to demonstrate "the readiness with which normal individuals may be made to yield evidence of unconscious and involuntary processes.
And even if it were so, I should still be right," I added with an involuntary smile of complacency.
I have had some suspicions of that kind; but we must be silent touching such involuntary communications.
Susie was Mrs. Todd before I recovered from the effects of my involuntary soap-bath.
The sixth of these articles ordains that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.
The controversy arose out of a proposition to attach to the admission of the new State a proviso prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude therein.
Now since all involuntary action is either upon compulsion or by reason of ignorance, Voluntary Action would seem to be "that whose origination is in the agent, he being aware of the particular details in which the action consists.
In fine then, that is involuntary which is done through ignorance, or which, not resulting from ignorance, is not in the agent's control or is done on compulsion.
So then the Just we have been speaking of is a mean between loss and gain arising in involuntary transactions; that is, it is the having the same after the transaction as one had before it took place.
IV And the remaining one is the Corrective, which arises in voluntary as well as involuntary transactions.
Such actions then are voluntary, though in the abstract perhaps involuntary because no one would choose any of such things in and by itself.
Again, whereas actions strictly involuntaryare thought to be attended with pain, those which are done to gratify lust are thought to be pleasant.
List 8 acts performed during the day, and arrange them in order from the most involuntary to the most voluntary.
Thus we may classify acts as wholly involuntary or mechanical, as impulsive, and as distinctly voluntary or purposive.
Voluntary and Involuntary Action About the first thing we strike when we start digging is the distinction between voluntary and involuntary.
Mention an instance of practice changing a voluntary performance into an involuntary, and one of practice changing an involuntary performance into a voluntary.
On the other hand, a completely involuntary act is rather exceptional in human behavior and perhaps in animal behavior as well, for almost always there is some striving towards an end, some impulse.
Besides the simple reflexes, there is another sort of involuntary and mechanical action.
It is misleading if it leads us to associate will exclusively with motor action, for we also have voluntary attention and voluntary control in reasoning and inventing, and we have involuntary motor reactions.
