"Impulsion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all the time, not as a listener looks at one, but as if the words he chose to say were only of secondary interest. When he finished she slipped her hand, by a sudden and decided movement, under his arm and impelled him gently towards the gate of the grounds. He felt her firmness and obeyed the impulsion at once, just as the other two men had, a moment before, obeyed unquestioningly the wave ...
— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad
... time the galley came down from the city, and, under impulsion of the oars, disappeared with the party up the ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace
... is at stake, Germany's fight is the fight of civilization against barbarism—against Russian barbarism he means. This ought to be the cause of all Western Europe, but England and France have betrayed the western civilization into the hands of the East. This belief gave to Germany's cause a deep impulsion (12). ...
— The Psychology of Nations - A Contribution to the Philosophy of History • G.E. Partridge
... revolution, which, under all the stormy events that the superficial record we call HISTORY alone deigns to enumerate, was working that great change in the thoughts and habits of the people,—that impulsion of the provincial citywards, that gradual formation of a class between knight and vassal,—which became first constitutionally visible and distinct in the reign of Henry VII., Marmaduke Nevile, inly half-regretting and half-despising the reasonings of his foster-brother, was playing ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... life is to be found solely in the impetus (poussee formidable) that pushes it along the road of Time, the harmony is not in front but behind. The unity is derived from a vis a tergo: it is given at the start as an impulsion, not placed at the end as an ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn
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