impulsively

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Jenny thought these things very simply--impulsively--and not in a form to be intelligible if set down as they occurred to her; but the notions swam in her head along with her love for Keith and her joy in the love which he returned.

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  • There's also the possibility, though, that McCain could be seen as over-reacting and acting impulsively, which is something he's done in the past in a manner that has not worked out so well in the end. —  Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
  • Truman's personality was to act impulsively, and he spent much of his spare time playing simple card games with friends. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • She caught the artist's hand in her own impulsively--"Arrah, but it's the wide world I have searched, and I've found yez at last Silence had fallen on that part of the room where this little contretemps was taking place. —  The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
  • He acted impulsively, and even unjustly; there was much in his methods that a cool judgment must condemn; but he was fighting, with his back to the wall, in order that the British race should not be crowded out of existence by "the proud Iberian." —  Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
  • He spoke impulsively, almost wildly; so much so that Anne stopped, startled. —  Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
 

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