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Instinctively I rushed towards the place from which the shot seemed to have been fired; but, before I had taken three steps, I was struck once more in my shoulder, and fell down unconscious. P. How long a time was there between the first and the second shots? C.C. Almost three or four seconds. P. Was that time enough to distinguish the murderer?
Instinctively he put out his hand, backward, and thrilled through every nerve when something cool and small and tremulous slipped into it. The canoe shot up to the float. "You can't get any boat here." There was no surprise or resentment in the harsh level voice. Only determination, final and unshakable. Esther felt the doctor's hand close around her own.
As he thus lifted her she felt the irregularities of rock beneath her clutching fingers, and scrambled instinctively forward along the narrow shelf, and then, reaching higher, her groping hands clasped the roots of a projecting cedar. She retained no longer any memory for Hampton; her brain was completely terrorized.
In relating "God's ways to man" he instinctively justifies or condemns. He cannot even tell a story exactly as it was told to him: he must alter it, be it ever so slightly, to make it fit his general conceptions of human nature and human fate. He gives credence to one witness and not to another.
And then her eyes wandered to the three-quarters portrait of herself by M. Dubois, hung temporarily in this room. Yes, it was good. M. Dubois had caught the peculiar De Peyster quality. One looked at it and instinctively thought of generations processioning back into a beginningless past. "In 1148 Archambaud de Paster" ...
Instinctively, she drew her silken dressing-gown closer around her and started to her feet. "I am sorry if I startled you, señorita," said Cojuelo. "It is a delightful surprise to find you like this." "Dolores seemed to be insisting that I must come here for my coffee," explained Myra, recovering her composure.
"You did! and, pray, who prescribed this for you?" said the doctor, moving his chair instinctively from his patient and speaking in a rather excited tone of voice. "No one prescribed it. I took it on the recommendation of the bar-keeper down-stairs, who said that he knew it would cure me." "And you had my prescription in your pocket at the same time!
Glancing instinctively round, Keesa saw that it was a very pleasant country, and that there were a good many others like his mother, sitting or moving softly about with long leaps, one and all keeping a sharp lookout for danger while munching the tender leaves and grass.
He came from these musings to discover that his feet had strayed instinctively to the old garden which provoked the memory of his father and mother. But he found it destroyed utterly ... its prim beds swept aside to make way for a huge apartment house. The last intangible link which had bound him to his old life had been destroyed.
Though I felt submissive, yet somehow I was soon crying, and that most instinctively, 'Thou Son of David, have mercy on me. After this, my faith did not waver. Oh, the lesson of patience I learned in thus waiting on God's good time.
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