Promptings
[prɒm(p)tɪŋ]
Examples
- Hor Vastus, I said, placing my hand upon his shoulder, you know best the promptings of your own heart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Yes; I feel now that I was right when I adhered to principle and law, and scorned and crushed the insane promptings of a frenzied moment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Bulstrode had not yet unravelled in his thought the confused promptings of the last four-and-twenty hours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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