This is one of the native instincts of the noble heart.

Christian education, therefore, aims at transforming native instincts while preserving and enlarging their powers.

Their native instincts clung to them in their exile.

They point them where they want them to go and they let native instincts take over.

Obedience to these native instincts produces fixed habits.

Then his native instincts and his years of training asserted themselves, and he let go once more.

True to their native instincts, they had, at first, left the defeated French and welcomed the conquerors.

He had made their present journey once before, and his sureness was characteristic of his native instincts.

Noble types of character may rest on only the native instincts of the soul or even on broadly interpreted utilitarian considerations.

I am speaking of her, not as a perverted and degraded creature, but in her natural state, with her native instincts and peculiarities.

They are industrious, intelligent, frugal, and have the native instincts of honesty and integrity and of fidelity which are essential to good citizenship.

The native instincts of man are simply potencies or capacities for morality; they must have a life of opportunity for their evolution and exercise.

She soon found that her pet did "belong to these parts," and that its native instincts were strong, despite her moral training.

When I found that it led to utter degradation and ruin, why did I not renounce it, and trust once more in my native instincts?

"Ever, my dear young friend," said Mr. Allison, impressively, "be true to your native instincts.