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instinctive force

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And it is an almost instinctive force which urges the author on in his creative work.

From Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Braun, Wilhelm Alfred

The many lessons of self-control and self-restraint which she had learnt returned with instinctive force.

From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray

They stick together, and grow up on their farms, which are of enormous extent, and which they get to love with the instinctive force of people who have never seen any other place.

From With Rimington by Phillipps, L. March

Even your two-year-old babe may defy you by the instinctive force of its personality.

From The Human Machine by Bennett, Arnold

She felt the rebellion like the onslaught of angels of light against powers of darkness; it was the ideal doing battle with some primal, instinctive force.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas