1 She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way.
2 But far from yielding to the impulse, she avoided any occasion which might throw her in his way.
3 I was a little unthinking child in those days, just following a misleading impulse without question.
4 A quick impulse that was somewhat spasmodic impelled her fingers to close in a sort of clutch upon his hand.
5 He hoped she had not acted upon her rash impulse; and he begged her to consider first, foremost, and above all else, what people would say.
6 She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility.
7 Her seductive voice, together with his great love for her, had enthralled his senses, had deprived him of every impulse but the longing to hold her and keep her.
8 Edna Pontellier could not have told why, wishing to go to the beach with Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second place have followed in obedience to one of the two contradictory impulses which impelled her.
9 With ingenuous frankness he spoke of what a wicked, ill-disciplined boy he had been, and impulsively drew up his cuff to exhibit upon his wrist the scar from a saber cut which he had received in a duel outside of Paris when he was nineteen.