1 She drew aside, instinctively obeying his tone.
2 From the beginning of the discussion he had instinctively avoided the mention of Mattie's name, fearing he hardly knew what: criticism, complaints, or vague allusions to the imminent probability of her marrying.
3 Accompanying him also were the smells of chewing tobacco, well-oiled leather and horses--a combination of odors that she always associated with her father and instinctively liked in other men.
4 She instinctively knew how Coast people would act in any circumstance.
5 But they knew instinctively, as they knew thoroughbred horses from scrubs, that he was not of their class.
6 She had paused a moment with raised brows, drawing away instinctively from his touch, though she made no effort to evade his words.
7 For though it was a most unwonted hour, yet so impressive was the cry, and so deliriously exciting, that almost every soul on board instinctively desired a lowering.
8 Antonia stuck her fork in the ground, and instinctively we walked toward that unploughed patch at the crossing of the roads as the fittest place to talk to each other.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV 9 "I felt giddy and almost overcome," Edna said, lifting her hands instinctively to her head and pushing her straw hat up from her forehead.
10 The young man started, and recoiled a few paces instinctively, when he found himself within a hundred yards of a stranger Indian.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 11 The old woman drew in her breath, and caught instinctively at her son.
12 From the cradle, Alfred was an aristocrat; and as he grew up, instinctively, all his sympathies and all his reasonings were in that line, and all mother's exhortations went to the winds.
13 It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate.
14 Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.
15 I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation.