All 9 Uses of
impulsive
in
Jude the Obscure
- His mind had become so impregnated with the poem that, in a moment of the same impulsive emotion which years before had caused him to kneel on the ladder, he stopped the horse, alighted, and glancing round to see that nobody was in sight, knelt down on the roadside bank with open book.†
Part 1
- She impulsively seized his hand, and leaving a reproachful look on the schoolmaster turned away to Jude, her voice revealing a tremor which she herself felt to be absurdly uncalled for by sarcasm so gentle.†
Part 2 *
- When they had sat and eaten, Jude impulsively placed his hand upon hers; she looked up and smiled, and took his quite freely into her own little soft one, dividing his fingers and coolly examining them, as if they were the fingers of a glove she was purchasing.†
Part 3
- Yet Jude was in danger of attaching more meaning to Sue's impulsive note than it really was intended to bear.†
Part 3
- "He of all men would understand my difficulties," said the impulsive Jude.†
Part 3
- Sue hesitated; and then impulsively told the woman that her husband and herself had each been unhappy in their first marriages, after which, terrified at the thought of a second irrevocable union, and lest the conditions of the contract should kill their love, yet wishing to be together, they had literally not found the courage to repeat it, though they had attempted it two or three times.†
Part 6
- I never knew such a woman for doing impulsive penances, as you, Sue!†
Part 6
- "I can't endure you to say that!" she burst out, and her eye resting on him a moment, she turned back impulsively.†
Part 6
- He impulsively asked how Sue was, and then said bluntly, remembering what Sue had told him: "I suppose they are still only husband and wife in name?"†
Part 6
Definition:
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(impulsive) action without forethought; or such a tendency