involuntary impulse

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Why does not our involuntary impulse always make the table turn?

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

Then, moved by 11 an involuntary impulse he did not even pause to analyze, he shrugged his shoulders slightly.

From Shoe-Bar Stratton by Gage, George W.

By an involuntary impulse the Ballawhaine turned his eyes upward to the ceiling while she spoke, as if he had expected to see the ghosts of his father and his brother threatening him.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

Maria, with an involuntary impulse of concealment, seized her brush, and began brushing her hair.

From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Brett, Harold M.

Nor can any one be surprised or scandalized, if I acknowledge my weakness in stating that I could not resist an involuntary impulse to laugh at them "in my sleeve."

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William