And in that moment some instinct prompted Jock McChesney to shake his head, ever so slightly, and assume a blankness of expression.
The two young men accordingly gave solemn promises of amendment, prompted by their imperilled interests, and by the hope Madame Hochon held out, that the debt to Max should be paid.
I suppose it was instinct that prompted me to get into this life-buoy and swim away from the sinking ship; but in doing so have I not merely exchanged a quick for a lingering death?
When he saw his photograph and said, "I shall be celebrated," he laid bare the impulse that prompted him.
In 1861, Mrs. Griffing, prompted by the same loyal spirit that moved all the women of the nation, turned from the ordinary occupations of life to see what she could do to mitigate the miseries of the war.
In the last few months the women's war upon the whisky trade and intemperance at large has promptedme thus to declare unequivocally for them and their glorious efforts.
The powerful support you gave Governor Hicks during the darkest hour of your State's history, prompted him to take and maintain the stand he did, and thereby saved your State from secession and consequent ruin.
And it is difficult to define exactly the impulse that had prompted me to abstain from all of these things.
It was not sympathy which prompted Crowley, for he sympathized with his boyish companion, whose sufferings it hurt him sorely to augment.
What the devil prompted you to do it--with such a wife?
Then, the spoiler, prompted by a ravenous maw, alleged a pretext for a quarrel.
At moments he fancied that they suspected his eagerness, and had assumed their most guarded caution against him; but he soon perceived that this manner was natural to them, not prompted in the slightest degree by any distrust whatever.
Of course not," broke in Baynton; "his Lordship's inquiries were reallyprompted by a sincere desire to serve you.
The papers of Lafayette attest the ability with which he pressed upon the French Government an active participation in the contest, and especially prompted the decisive expedition of Rochambeau.
Attacks upon the speech were not prompted exclusively by friendship to Slavery.
It was no unmanly fear of pain in Keats, Severn again and again insists, that prompted this appeal, but above all his acute sympathetic sense of the trials which the sequel would bring upon his friend.
I do not know what prompted me to an act so rude, but I mechanically pushed open the door before I had reflected a moment.
The recollection of this latter circumstance prompted me instantly to seize my hat and hurry after her.
But that witticism was prompted by suspicion and passion, and it came from those same persons who said that the Abel had been cast from life.
So far this would seem prompted by nothing but the fear of losing, which in itself is no small thing for a man who has a name and has gone through his long career applauded by all.
On the other hand, Wilson, though he would not have done it himself, rather admired the spirit that prompted the act.
It was he who had heard of Danbury and it was he who had prompted him to bargain with the priest.
But from the South came such an appeal that I was prompted to continue my study at first hand for another year.
I don't know what prompted me to do so, but I stepped up to him and inquired, "Do you know where a fellow can get a job?
While the fate of Zalu Zako was quite immaterial, his attitude to Moonspirit was much the same as the young man’s, but prompted by a different motive; a power possible to utilize for his benefit.
Prompted by Rufus, who thirsted for something lively, she decreed a game of hide-and-seek over the whole house, and succeeded in enticing the elder people into the frolic.
Shirley wanted a chaperon, and her kind young heart prompted her to ask a pair who were not much accustomed to the delights of automobiling in the moonlight.
I had not uttered a word, and I had arrived at a state of mind which prompted me to give a terrific yell, just to see what would happen next.
I gave him the half-sovereign, though what prompted me to do so I cannot remember, but I had met so many aggressive people during that evening that a kind man appealed to me strongly.
It was the exclusive ownership of a piece of the country or a portion of the wealth in the country, and all it prompted the owner to was devotion to and care for that specific portion without regard to the rest.
This was, of course, on account of the perennial economic distress of the masses in the old countries, which prompted them to think first about the bearing any new idea might have on the question of livelihood.
When, on the other hand, it merely prompted individuals to get possession of wealth already produced and in the hands of others, it tended only to change the distribution without at all increasing the total of wealth.
It tended to increase the aggregate wealth only when it prompted the production of new wealth.
This, as will be understood, is really only a wider application of the idea which prompted me to unite in my own business homeopathy and the practice of medicine.
Yet, to do them justice, the curiosity of these simple people never once prompted them to commit a breach, however trifling, of real good manners.
Here, then, if our informant spoke correctly, was an end to one of the dreams which had prompted our incursion into Bohemia.
The blow was no sooner given by Ellis than repented of; and this motion of regret prompted him to express his sorrow for the hasty act, but when he turned to speak to the lad, he was gone.
This was a centurion named Sempronius Densus, who had never received any especial favour from Galba, but who, promptedmerely by his own honour and fidelity, stood firm in front of his litter.
There was one Sosis, a man who by villainy and audacity had gained a certain reputation at Syracuse, where the citizens thought that his licence in speech must be prompted by an excessive love of freedom.
He was remarkably fond of his father; and the love and respect which he paid to his father and mother seem to have beenprompted by true affection, not by a wish to stand well with those in power.
We, prompted by motives of humanity, have decreed that all further mangling of the human body, the very mention of which fills the soul with horror, should be henceforth abolished.
There was a time when the majority of educated men belonged to the clerical order, and then it seemed as though it must be religion that prompted some of the conservatism which led them to oppose what proved eventually to be new truths.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prompted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animated; inclined; minded; motivated; moved; stimulated
