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action without forethought; or such a tendency
- "Come to dinner," she suggested impulsively, inspired by Howard's kindness to Paul.p. 177.3
- Impulsively, Norah leaned down and picked up the baby, Kay's second daughter, dressed in frothy pink to match her sister.p. 127.1
- Phoebe, at thirteen, was short for her age, chubby, still impulsive and impassioned, slow to learn but moving from joy to pensiveness to sadness and back to joy with an astonishing speed.p. 221.7
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