Meanings of generous instinct in English

We will see! He repressed this first, generous instinct, and recoiled before heroism.

You have scarcely a generous instinct, scarcely a spark of real affection left in you.

He cloaks each generous instinct with a laughing drollery.

Her generous instinct came to the rescue of the poor poets just at the right moment.

Trent had simply obeyed the generous instinct of a brave man whose blood was warm with the joy of fighting.

I do not believe a girl would do it if she thought twice; every generous instinct would cry out against it.

Still magnanimous, independent and honourable, but moody, rash, and intractable, he was the automaton of generous instinct, no longer animated by reason.

They scorn, they shudder at, they approve, they love, as by some generous instinct, qualities of which they have had no experience.

It was a thought neither of self nor self-preservation, but a generous instinct, that even in that perilous crisis was stirring within their hearts.

Endowed with a faculty and inspired by a love for creative beauty, work is to him at once a high vocation and a generous instinct.

I love to see your embarrassment, founded as it is upon the most generous instincts.

Only by example can generous instincts be provoked.

She will do so for your sake, Langhetti-orrather from her own noble and generous instincts.

Donald, my lover, whom I have known since childhood-whosegenerous instincts I have so often admired!

She had gratified her more generous instincts in giving the unfortunate lady "the straight tip."

With all their generous instincts stirred, the Messrs. Dawson invited the gentleman to take a seat in their well-appointed drag.