"If I have made any seeming mystery, as to the place of my birth, it has been involuntary on my part, Miss Effingham, so far as you, at least, have been concerned.

The quick glance which all of us cast about the room was, of course, as involuntary as the chill which ran up our spines; yet Godfrey and Iyes, and Simmondshad the excuse that, once upon a time, we had had an encounter with a deadly snake which none of us was likely ever to forget.

One answer isthat it can be used with as much propriety in that case, as in the removal of slaves from Africathe removal in the one case being no less involuntary than in the other.

But the retreat hereabouts had been too rapid and involuntary for deliberate burning or destruction or trap-setting on an appreciable scale....

The involuntary from their smooth, regular appearance under the microscope are called the unstriped or non-striated muscles.

But in the case of most errors for this reason chiefly they are induced to confess them, because they imagine that there is something involuntary in them as in timidity and compassion; and if a man confess that he is in any respect intemperate, he alleges love (or passion) as an excuse for what is involuntary.