sudden inclination

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She put her hand up to her throat with a gasp to keep down the sudden inclination to cry out.

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Men are not brought up in this office as a profession, but one becomes a manang bali from pure choice, or by sudden inclination, at a mature age.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

"Did you tell her to say that?" she asked, with a sudden inclination of her body toward me.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various

The Onondago had no difficulty in following the trail, which led us, at first, for some distance in a line towards Ravensnest, then made a sudden inclination in the direction of the hut.

From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore

Or else this is what happens: it happens that he feels a sudden inclination to meet the former object of his feelings, that he even makes an excursion with that aim….

From The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance