Neither his own thoughts, nor any book that he had ever read nor any lecture that he had heard ever attempted to explain the enormous creative urge which is felt by every noble mind, and which, indeed, is shared to some extent by every human creature.

Pressed up by the vital urge, Mind meets matter and matter mind In mutual understanding.

That assimilatory urge is present in every activity from coarse ingestion as food to the moral metabolism of the hermit-saint who would influence others to do as he.

He was far too selfish to follow the brief urge to renunciation.

Ted was a bit of a knight, at heart, and felt now the chivalric urge, combining with others less unselfish, to go to the rescue of the damsel and set her free of the false besieger.

To understand the constant urge to throw off the shackles of civilization, one need but think of the number of men who use liquor or drugs.

Chapter 6 With the sharpening of his desire to withdraw from a hated age, he felt a despotic urge to shun pictures representing humanity striving in little holes or running to and fro in quest of money.

He seemed eager, his eyes very bright, his voice quick and vibrant with an electrical urge dominating.

Neither his own thoughts, nor any book that he had ever read nor any lecture that he had heard ever attempted to explain the enormous creative urge which is felt by every noble mind, and which, indeed, is shared to some extent by every human creature.

" Bull obeyed, and to his amazement, Diablo responded to the small forward urge of the child's hand and approached the bars one trembling step at a time.

So the great river moved placidlyas an old man moves when all the headlong urge of youth is spent and his race near run.

To prevent injury to itself, and to do as much injury as possible to the foethat becomes its immediate urge and necessity.

In 1678, however, Raja Kirpal Pal inherited the tiny state of Basohli and almost immediately a new artistic urge became apparent.

He counted on youth's imperious urge to happiness.

No one might know what inner urge had driven them here.

But he would do no more than propose,not for an instant urge the point.

A jangle of senseless "honks"yet in it the irresistible urge of bugle and drum!

A strong maternal instinct may be seen again and again to dominate a woman with but little or no sex urge or passion.

Three times fall and winter and spring were followed by that painfully delicious period of almost unbroken daylight, when the very books seemed to lose some of their magic, when even the air of the old lane became fraught with some mystic urge, and when life within stone walls turned into an unbearable burden.

I don't see how a murderer could ever be regarded as assisting in the onward urge toward sweetness and light, exactly.

At times, when Peter sat working over the books in the library, the Captain felt a prodigious urge to lay a hand on the young man's broad and capable shoulder.

It brought the grey after him, neighing wildly, but though she circled around him at full speed time after time, he would not pause, and when she attempted to block him he raised his head and pushed her away with the resistless urge of breast and shoulders.

This story was preferred, for the reasons implied, by Frances Gilchrist Wood, who sees in Wu Fong's garden the subtle urge of acres of flowers, asleep under the stars, pitted against the greed of profiteers; who sees in answer to Western fume and fret the wisdom of Confucius, "Come out and see my poppies."

He was mortally in terror of something more than physical death, and, like the cornered rat, he felt a sudden urge to go out and meet the danger halfway.

But Jessie was a child of the imperative urge.