Prompting

Examples

• In the latter case, you would expect that some prompting from outside would be needed to make so young a lad do such a thing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• These words are written under no prompting of idle self-contemplation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If he has had no visitors, that prompting must have come in letters; hence I try to find out who were his correspondents. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• More prompting was necessary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In any other man I should have thought that the prompting of a magnanimous and noble character. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• With much embarrassment and some prompting I made out to announce the object of the meeting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He described that person, Mr. Blake, without any prompting from me, as having a dark face, like the face of an Indian. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Oliver needed no prompting to despatch, and in little more than five minutes they were on their way to Craven Street. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• 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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