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impulses

n. (plural of impulse English)

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We thus see that the impulses proceeding from a number of glands strengthen one another, spread farther, and act on a larger number of tentacles, than the impulse from any single gland.

The cellwalls of the pedicels also allow various impulses to pass through them, inducing movement, increased secretion and aggregation.

Moreover, this extreme sensitiveness, exceeding that of the most delicate part of the human body, as well as the power of transmitting various impulses from one part of the leaf to another, have been acquired without the intervention of any nervous system.

But they are not interested inbecause their empirical methods do not coverhow sensations are taken up into perceptions, and perceptions give way to impulses and emotions, and emotions break forth into images, and images expand to symbols.

I must fight my own inclinations, my own desires, my own natural impulses, to the extent that they deter me from a worldcentric fairness.

The rebellion of all the intellectual impulses against being ruled by the physical.

Towards the end of the fortnight the impulses to work steadily declined.

Thus the growing girl was left chiefly to her own impulses, and average human nature ensured that the habit of thinking of herself first and of pleasing herself at all times should be early formed.

The more closely he studied her character, and the controlling impulses of her life, the more sincere became his admiration, and the deeper his reverence.

He had, from the first, calmly and philosophically recognized the fact that he must break down, in part, the Chinese wall of her self-approval, before any elevating ideas and ennobling impulses could enter, and as much through unforeseen events as by his effort, this had been done to a degree that threatened results that appalled him.

She was no saint because she had cherished some good thoughts and impulses that day, and as for poor Stanton, he became so depressed that he lapsed into utter silence.

I imagine all women are mysteries when you come to scrutinize their motives and impulses closely.

Poor Ida had no time to mask her feelings or check her impulses, and she took his extended hand as if she were sinking, while the color and light of welcome flashed brightly into her face.

If he had deeply honored her when he supposed that as a sincere, honest friend only she had spoken her strong, true words, which might save him from wrecking his life from impulses of shame and wounded pride, how instantaneously was this honor changed into reverence and wonder as he recognized her self-sacrifice at the dictates of conscience.

By simply obeying those impulses automatically, she did not have to deal with them, either.