He had thrown down the gantlet, and with a logic that had gained him a nation-wide hearing, to those who believed that man was the only living creature who could reason, and that common sense and cleverness when displayed by any other breathing thing were merely instinct.

It was a dignified proceeding on the part of Monteith Sterry, and the rustler possessed enough gentlemanly instinct to appreciate the feelings of the young man, who had attested his courage too often for any one to question it.

Women knew so much best how a woman surpassedhow and where and why, with no touch or torment of it lost on them; so that as it produced mainly and primarily the instinct of aversion, the sense of extracting the recognition, of gouging out the homage, was on the whole the highest crown one's felicity could wear.

But editors and publishers are men of purely business instincts, and they will not accept work on the recommendation of any third party, which they think their public will not like.

It was the soldierly instinct that heard "the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Indeed, she had never felt younger, more thrillingly instinct with the power and the will to live extravagantly in one endless riot of youth unquenchable.... Reaction, of course: the swing of the pendulum to its farthest extreme.

The better one's condition is, the less one has to think about growing better, and the more unconsciously one's natural instincts guide the right way.

The wolves and the sledge-dogs answered each other undisturbed; the beautiful songs of the white-throats stole from the forest as divinely instinct as ever with the spirit of peace.

" "That," Mr. Dill remarked, his business instincts uppermost, "it seems to me, need not concern usseeing that they will sell, and at a price we can handle.