Spontaneously

Examples

• It appeared to ascend them, not very promptly or spontaneously, yet with a display of stride and clatter meant to be insulting. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The rivers flowed with wine and milk: The oaks yielded honey; and nature spontaneously produced her greatest delicacies. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But then, as Herbert changed the bandages, more by the light of the fire than by the outer light, he went back to it spontaneously. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The element yields spontaneously radium emanation without any apparent diminution of its own mass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The Chinese seem to have made their civilization spontaneously and unassisted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The words rose to her lips spontaneously. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• His belief in these moments of dread was, that if he spontaneously did something right, God would save him from the consequences of wrong-doing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Her self was all in her head, she did not know what it was spontaneously to run or move, like a fish in the water, or a weasel on the grass. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Their kind sentiments awaken spontaneously towards the interesting possessors of it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Good Lord, you don't suppose that I would go spontaneously combusting any person, my dear? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My words flowed spontaneously--my utterance was firm and quick. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The cattle broke and fell back quite spontaneously, went running up the hill, their fleece waving like fire to their motion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Edited by Angus