Word: instinctive
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...Captive?One of Fate's crazy shuffles wherein a feminine, body gets a masculine instinct, and struggles in vain...
...almost human. He died in the swamps of La Pompelle in 1917, of influenza. He always remembered and acted strangely several hours in advance of an attack when he had heard me give the order, perhaps days before. Is that memory or intelligence? Is that soul or instinct? Mes amis, you may rest assured that dogs at least remember...
...move by the million, having families more plentifully than ever on the march; destroying crops and herbage; preyed on by throngs of bigger beasts. They never hesitate,moving on (like Theodore Roosevelt and his children**) over every obstacle, lake, river, mountain, until they reach the sea. Here their blind instinct persists and out they swim, still in the line of the migration, until the last one is drowned. Only a few will have stayed behind, hibernating or lacking true lemming instinct, or perhaps so hardy that they have not felt the need for a more congenial home. These will...
...enables one, as a leader, to control masses of men. He must subject all alike, himself included, to that discipline which is a bond stronger than iron; more impervious than adamant. He must have not only courage and endurance, but also that indefatigable quality called "pluck," and, as well, instinct, that incomprehensible something which takes the bird to its nest in the vast sameness of the prairie, or the bee to its home in the hollow tree hidden in the labyrinth of the forest...
...Natural beauty and an artist's creative instinct are gifts of God," declared Professor R. C. Cabot '89, Chairman of the Department of Social Ethics, in his talk on "The Need of Religion" at Phillips Brooks House yesterday...