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Meanings of prompt to in English

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Usage of prompt to in English
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When I'd finished, there was a lengthy pause, a prompt to continue.
Speaking in Bones
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The plastic brain of the fœtus is prompt to receive all impressions.
The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mothe...
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Relations are often very prompt to divine the real position of affairs.
The Doctor of Pimlico: Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime
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She was prompt to lay the blame of this on her husband.
Unleavened Bread
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The dismissal was complete, and Bat was prompt to accept his cue.
The Man in the Twilight
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With Walt's ideas of duty are mingled memories that prompt to revenge.
The Lone Ranche
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Her tongue is controlled by ample intelligence and is prompt to answer.
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
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She had been very prompt to tell me of her daughter's engagement.
A Bicycle of Cathay
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Instead, users get a 'download failed' message with a prompt to try again.
The South African
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Parliament was prompt to express the general admiration for the brave.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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We were always most prompt to recognise their progress in a substantial manner.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
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Disbelief over lawyer's comments Trump's critics were prompt to seize on the exchange.
Radio NZ
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The various troop commanders, gaining control over their men, were prompt to act.
Bob Hampton of Placer
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They were prompt to deny any sympathy with the armistice movement.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
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Pomp, always prompt to repel aggression, in return, pinched her foot.
Frank's Campaign; Or, The Farm and the Camp
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But having given his advice, he was prompt to act upon it himself.
Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in Ameri...
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