1 Then, after a moment's pondering, almost to her own surprise she broke out with a flash of inspiration: "Well, go over and see Mr. Selden."
2 She did not, however, propose to lie there prone, and Gerty's inspiration about the hats at once revived her hopes of profitable activity.
3 She saw it the common home and inspiration not only of the town but of the country about.
4 She found no inspiration but she did find a dependable kindness in Mrs. Westlake, and at last she yielded to the old woman's receptivity and had relief in sobbing the story of Bea.
5 She wasn't altogether pleased, the week after, when Erik was independent and, without asking for her inspiration, planned the tennis tournament.
6 While still retaining all a child's fanciful graces, yet she often dropped, unconsciously, words of such a reach of thought, and strange unworldly wisdom, that they seemed to be an inspiration.
7 "Aunt March had a good fit and sent the supper," cried Jo, with a sudden inspiration.
8 Meg and John happened to be standing together in the middle of the grass plot, when Laurie was seized with an inspiration which put the finishing touch to this unfashionable wedding.
9 Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity.
10 I make all my lays myself, and heaven visits me with every kind of inspiration.
11 I understood, as by inspiration, the nature of his love for Miss Oliver; I agreed with him that it was but a love of the senses.
12 His mind was waking slowly to a tremulous morning knowledge, a morning inspiration.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 13 The instant of inspiration seemed now to be reflected from all sides at once from a multitude of cloudy circumstances of what had happened or of what might have happened.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 14 He did not reply for a moment but looked all round him, and up and down, as though he expected to find some inspiration for an answer.
15 In the moment when Madam Mina said those words that arrest both our understanding, an inspiration came to me.