1 When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write about the level of his own eyes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 2 Uninvited, unexpected, droppers-in, lured off the high road by the very same instinct that caused the sheep and the cows to desire propinquity, they had come.
3 With Jekyll, it was a thing of vital instinct.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 4 As Rowena bent her steed towards Locksley's seat, that bold yeoman, with all his followers, rose to receive her, as if by a general instinct of courtesy.
5 Clifford was a coming man; and it was remarkable what a sound publicity instinct he had.
6 He had pushed his way by sheer instinct and sheerer effrontery on to the stage and to the front of it, with his plays.
7 But it all hinges on the instinct for success.
8 As for Hammond, he's got a property instinct, so naturally the straight road and the narrow gate are right for him.
9 Why, Connie, I should trust your natural instinct of decency and selection.
10 Her woman's instinct sensed it.
11 Suddenly, with all the force of her female instinct, she was shoving him off.
12 Clifford fascinated her because he always, or so often, frustrated her will, as if by a finer instinct.
13 But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly-insane beast.
14 Her old instinct was to fight for her freedom.
15 But you see, even a low bitch like that turns on him, and uses the hyena instinct of the mob against sex, to pull him down.