It is not unlikely that all these causes, and perhaps others, may have concurred in prompting the step.
It was a mingled emotion, but if some drops for her own disconcertment were mingled with the warm prompting of pity, her compassion was none the less true.
He merely told himself these things because the last vestige of his expiring common sense was prompting him.
The imitative impulse, too, prompting the child to carry out on the doll actions similar to those carried out on itself by mother and nurse, is a strong support of the delusion.
The imitative impulse prompting to the production of the semblance of something appears very early in child-life.
He evidently did not know the words of the song, for one of his self-constituted teachers kept prompting him, amid roars of laughter.
In his house was found the actual letter which he had received from Mukht-i-Shems prompting him to the Patriarch's murder.
Perhaps the Russians may have had some cause to think that the more prosperous aspect of their affairs in Asia Minor might now be promptingthese double traitors to think better of their first bargain.
With the help of some prompting from Mr. Davis, he proceeded to lay before the audience a few figures purporting to explain the Board's expenditure.
Then a sharp-eyed inspector from London discovered that the schoolmaster took very little trouble about teaching, but displayed great talent in promptinghis children at examinations.
But now he merely pushed the unspeakable prompting into the background.
This was the prompting to exultation as it might have been set in words; but in Griswold's thought it was but a swift suggestion, followed instantly by another which was much more to the immediate purpose.
When you have lived a few years longer in this world of ours, you will not probe too deeply into motives; you will take the deed as the sufficient exponent of the prompting behind it.
He flushed and drew himself up, with the stabbed amour propre prompting him to make some stinging retort contrasting the wells of truth with the brackish waters of sheer worldliness.
As at other times, he was once more yielding to the impulse which was always promptinghim to apply the acid test to the pure gold of the ideal.
Such savor in the nose Of Sense would stimulate Soul sweetly, I suppose, Soul with its proper itch of instinct, prompting clear To recognize soul's self soul's only master here Alike from first to last.
It is thy prompting I dare to be ashamed of, and thy counsel Would die along my coward lip, I know.
That failure has been theprompting for much criticism.
There is prompting to speculation as to the reasons why in Spanish and Portuguese America race mixture was the rule, in Anglo-Saxon America the exception.
They have seen in the malignant disposition of whatever nation was the greatest Power in Europe for the time being a just prompting to arrange restraining coalitions, to wage crippling wars.
The very suddenness with which her greatness has been won is in itself a prompting to the suspicion that it will not last.
Her gentle craft subdued his impetuous mood--if craft it might be called--for more wisely cunning than all craft is the prompting of true affection, where reason responds like instinct to the wants of the heart.
I may not tell you by whom I know it; perhaps the Intendant himself has sent me," replied La Corriveau, with a sudden prompting of the spirit of evil who stood beside her.
What cowardice had been prompting her to evade it?
Then, breaking a bit from the bread and handing it to each of the men, he repeated the blessing for which, although he had not recited it for so many years, he need no prompting from the worn black book beside his plate.
He could not propose to Rosamond that she should return any particular present of his, but he had told himself that he was bound to put Dover's offer before her, and her inward promptingmight make the affair easy.
This was the spontaneous prompting of his heart, and for this he labored with the zeal of a martyr.
He has robbed a band of merchants on their way from the Frankfort Fair, and, at the prompting of Weislingen, the Emperor puts him under the ban of the Empire, and dispatches an armed force against him.
His manner of thinking is noble; as free as possible from all prejudices, he acts on the prompting of the moment without troubling whether it may please other people, is in the fashion, or whether convention permits it.
Humboldt has indeed expressed his belief that this encyclopaedic Survey of the World exercised a more important influence upon the discovery of America than even the prompting which Columbus got from his correspondence with Toscanelli.
He found, too, that they had a religion, perhaps prompting to some virtues he little suspected in his own, and that they jealously guarded their idols.
A tremendous prompting came to shout after him, "Wait a minute, Howard!
Then I said: 'Gentlemen, you are wasting my time and your own because your argument is not the truth and is not the only reason you are urging, or that is prompting you to object to putting in that system.
His honor seemed uneasy, but at the careful prompting of Secretary Keane, he called for 'communications from executive officers.
The only other principles which he discusses are veracity and fidelity to promises, gratitude being treated as a natural instinct prompting to a particular kind of just actions.
With little prompting she could recite some of the longest narrative poems in Latin literature and she needed prompting only to give her the cue words at the beginning of each book and of each important episode.
The poet, become aware of the prompting of genius, loyally follows its leading through the common and familiar things of human experience.
It will be seen that the lyric gift of the poet moves at the prompting of an imaginative passion.
The young artist-seaman, who is the protagonist here, has for long been patiently toiling at his art at the prompting of instinct--the aesthetic impulse to capture and make permanent the beauty of the material world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prompting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
