Soon they were forging through the water at racing speed, the boat leaping to the impulsion of the sailorman's strongest motives, curiosity and the hope of saving a life.

The general impulsion was received from the vigorous arms of some thirty or forty of their number, who towed those in the rear by applying their force to three or four large gondolas in advance.

"Il lui [à l'Assemblée] importait de faire une épreuve sur toutes les Gardes Nationales de France, d'animer ce grand corps dont tous les membres étaient encore épars et incohérents, de leur donner une même impulsion....

Zealand was the first to give the impulsion; the other provinces soon followed the example; and William IV. was proclaimed stadtholder and captain-general, amid the almost unanimous rejoicings of all.

The impulsion given to the political mind of Europe by the revolution in North America was soon felt in the Netherlands.

History may not be a very practical study, but it teaches some useful lessons, one of which is that nothing is accidental, and that if men move in a given direction, they do so in obedience to an impulsion as automatic as is the impulsion of gravitation.

History may not be a very practical study, but it teaches some useful lessons, one of which is that nothing is accidental, and that if men move in a given direction, they do so in obedience to an impulsion as automatic as is the impulsion of gravitation.

Up to about the middle of the last century the lawfulness of the liquor business had been unquestioned in the United States, and money had been invested as freely in it as in any other legitimate enterprise; but, as the temperance agitation swept over the country, in obedience to the impulsion given by science to the study of hygiene, dealing in liquor came to be condemned as a crime.

Under their impulsion the sections of Paris chose commissioners who should take possession of the City Hall and eject the loyalist Council.

She greeted him in a startled, half-fearful manner, as if her presence were due to the impulsion of duty rather than choice.

As each mule passed, it received a blow or a kick from the impatient guide, who did not seem to think it necessary to be very ceremonious with the poor beasts, and had taken this simple method to give a general and a brisker impulsion to the party.

It was not courage that sent me on, but rather a strong impulsion from behind that made it impossible to retreat: the feeling that a throng pressed at my back, drawing nearer and nearer; that I was already half surrounded, swept, dragged, coaxed into a vast prison-house where there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, where their worm dieth not and their fire is not quenched.

According to his way of thinking a man might kiss a girl now and then, under impulsion of moonshine or mischief, but lightly always, like thistledown.

However, their sympathy, supposing he had it, were worth little to him; since it takes a stronger impulsion than this to put them in motion to do anything,a strong pulling by the nose, indeed,such as their native rulers know how to apply.

As Zundel expresses it, they are columns of support rather than of impulsion, and, as the body-weight is thrown forward by the hind-limbs, it is the duty of the fore-limbs to receive it.

They seem to have required absolutely no impulsion from without.

NATURELLEMENT, par une impulsion naturelle; facilement, simplement.

No Kashmiri without the impulsion of force majeure would ever do any workno logical argument will enable him to see ultimate good in immediate irksomeness.

Au reste, cette ordonnance me paroit d'autant plus facile à garder qu'ils ne sont point assez bien armés pour former une colonne capable par son poids d'une forte impulsion.

"Sound, Mr. Spinrobin," he said, with a sudden and effective lowering of his booming voice, "is the original divine impulsion behind naturecommunicated to language.

Then, under the impulsion of a generous thought, he offered to give me a thousand ounces if you will marry him.

The impulsion and the resistance are alike included in the design of our being.

The frequent futility of Nature's effort to throw to the top this hitherto unutilized feminine force was no less absorbing than the success which sometimes attended the impulsion.

If I determine the initial phenomena under the impulsion of which the inherent powers act upon the organism, that is Ontology.

This may be called the cunning of reasonthat it sets the passions to work for itself, while that which develops its existence through such impulsion pays the penalty and suffers loss.