I didn't ask you to come here to-night; but since you have come, by chance, I am going to follow the promptings of that chance, and strike a blow for righteousness with soiled weapons.

But there is not a waterman who ever sailed in Chesapeake Bay who will not tell you that, so far from the slaves needing any prompting to run away, the difficulty is, when they ask you to assist them, to make them take no for an answer.

Still, there they are, and being what they are ... it requires no train of reasoning or laboured reflection to make us feel that 'right is right,' and that it is better for ourselves and others to act on such precepts ... rather than to reverse these rules and obey the selfish promptings of animal nature."

" I could hardly have declined such an invitation even if I had wished to, but as a matter of fact I felt no such prompting.

The captain watching his efforts in grim silence began to experience the twin promptings of curiosity and temptation.

Copies of papers marked Nos. 9, 10, and 11 shew an attempt on the part of the French chargé d'affaires to place a copy of this letter among the archives of this Government, which for obvious reasons was not allowed to be done; but the assurance before given was repeated, that any official communication which he might be authorized to make in the accustomed form would receive a prompt and just consideration.

As it was, the colonel and I, alarmed at this recrudescence of conscience, managed to stifle its promptings, and bent her to our wicked will.

Then I can unbutton my vest and jest set and set and hear the promptings of the Lord God of Hosts.

His late opponents had decided to take advantage of Carthy's absence, and inflict chastisement prompt and merciless upon the "youthful stranger.

Now the products of art are great in proportion as they result from that immediate prompting of innate power which we call genius, and not from labored obedience to a theory or rule; and the presence of genius, or innate prompting, is directly opposed to the perpetual consciousness of a rule.

That a feeling is bestowed on us by Nature, does not necessarily legitimate all its promptings.

We observe in her no prompting of enthusiasm, of sympathetic charitableness, or of religious scrupulousness, that is, none of those grand moral impulses which are characteristic of Christian piety, and which were predominant in St. Louis.

If the note ain't paid prompt, the confession goes to the noospapers of this enlightened land.

He has no recollection of having recently performed any prompt or chivalrous action.

"3. Seize every opportunity to act in the direction of the desired habit, and permit no emotional prompting in its behalf to escape you.

There are still in the world an immense number of fine soulsstrong and upright soulswho hate all that is small and mean, who know and who practise all the delicate promptings of honor, and who prefer death to an unworthy action or to a lie!

In a deeper sense than we knew the good man received his prompting

The musicians were spectators who whistled in a band the air of the bourrée, which is enough to make the most sedate Canon who ever sat in a stall dance, or at least to remember with charity the promptings of his adolescence.

But he was not, as is generally the case, spoiled by indulgence; on the contrary, his parents always required his prompt and cheerful obedience, and, when out of their sight, Archie was very careful to do nothing of which he thought his parents would not approve.

Gradually I recognised the limitations of human intelligence and its incapacity for understanding the nature of God, presented as infinite and absolute; I had given up the use of prayer as a blasphemous absurdity, since an all-wise God could not need my suggestions, nor an all-good God require my promptings.

Notwithstanding this assertion, Mr. Ewing being unable to resist the prompting of the "divinity which stirred within him," when quite young, began to write poetry.

I am inclined to think that in one sense we have to feel more than othersyes, doubly moresince the very attempt to, restrain natural promptings entails suffering.

And nothing, then as now, prevails against this scourge save prompt and sustained medical treatment.

ASTROLOGER (speaks, MEPHISTOPHELES prompts)

Fernando would have given worlds to speak the promptings of his heart: but stubborn pride forbade him.