The vehement passion which once or twice in her life she had involuntarily awakened in others had met with no response from herself.
Involuntarily I stopped at the head of the great carved staircase which led into the hall, and watched him going down, step by step, with lagging tread.
Ruth recalled the new broom's brown handsome face, with the eager eyes and raised eyebrows, and involuntarily shook her head.
I could not speak, but involuntarily I put out my hand and took his leaden one and held it.
Involuntarily she stopped short, in obedience to the stern authority of the tone.
His master almost involuntarily watched and distinguished the tall raw-boned figure of his late follower, from the window, for some time, until he was lost among the crowd of passengers.
With her mind running indignantly against compulsion, nevertheless her muscles involuntarily moved to obey.
Involuntarily she shrank from it, had been shrinking from it by fits and starts all the way, as flowers that thrive best in shady nooks shrink from hot sun and rude winds.
But Gorka's laugh had terrified him so much the more as at the same instant the jealous lover's disengaged hand was voluntarily or involuntarily extended toward the weapon which gleamed upon the couch.
Dorsenne, addressing Alba Steno, and without replying any more to the action, so involuntarily insulting, of the Baron than he had to his sly malice or to the Prince's facetious offer.
Involuntarily Dorsenne looked at him, and involuntarily, master as he was of himself, he looked at Dorsenne.
And she walked before him in order to reach the door, fixing upon him eyes so haughty that he involuntarily lowered his.
It was as if he began to learn involuntarily his own lesson from another's text-book.
When Lucina saw the throng parting for the new-comers, she assumed involuntarily her pose of sweet and gracious welcome; but when Jerome and his sister stood before her, she started and lost composure.
Belinda always smiled an innocent girlish simper, which sometimes so irritated the austere New England village women that they scowled involuntarily back at her.
She was either obstinately or involuntarily ignorant as yet of the method of telling time, and the hands of the clock were held before its face of mystery for concealment rather than revelation to her.
In that moment, while his face was so close to hers that she might have felt his breath upon her cheek and he was involuntarily looking straight into her eyes, the man felt, queerly, that the woman was not shrinking from him.
Upon reaching the street, he involuntarily turned to look back.
Civilization is so very young, and barbarism was so very old, that it is not surprising that I occasionally hark back involuntarily to the days to which my blood was most accustomed.
Almost involuntarily I closed the book, slipped it back into my pocket, and sat looking out to sea lost in a brown but interesting study.
There is no time for apologies from an old fellow like me, Amory," said I, placing a hand involuntarily on his shoulder.
It had even been alleged that, involuntarily as usual, Bella had diverted the growing admiration of one youth from a sister to herself; but the unruffled sweetness of the sisterly relations seemed to give the lie to that statement.
I involuntarily sprang up and approached the table.
Involuntarily I stopped short in my tracks, listening; and involuntarily, too, I looked at Peyton's door.
I'll do them," he remarked, his eyes involuntarily seeking her hands.
She thought involuntarily that a little brandy might give her strength, and as soon hated herself for the thought.
I was carried involuntarily towards my brother's house.
My steps involuntarily brought me back to my lodgings.
The prince involuntarily laid his hand upon the sword placed on the table, then with a smile at his own impulse, rose, and met his visitor at the threshold, with all the profuse and respectful courtesy of Italian simulation.
Much, indeed, he concealed, much he involuntarily softened; but he revealed enough to make his tale intelligible and distinct to his pale and trembling listener.
Man naturally has the same instinct as the animals, which warns them involuntarily against the creatures that are hostile or fatal to their existence.
I was seated near Porchon, so exhausted and weary that from time to time I sankinvoluntarily against his shoulder.
Not ill-naturedly they amused themselves by causing him involuntarily to hunch his neck down between his shoulders when they placed a hand upon him.
Cousrouf sees Mohammed enter, and a groan escapes his breast; involuntarily he carries his hand to his belt.
Osman rose from his seat, and the pale, weak youth stood there with so solemn an expression that the tschorbadji and the pacha involuntarily arose from their cushions.
As I dated a letter to her that night my mind involuntarily reckoned the days, and I was startled to find that Thursday fell on that fatal tenth of August.
Beata's eye involuntarily lost itself among these flowers, and took her ear with it, into which the Legation Counsellor with his military man[oe]uvres of wit sought vainly to effect a breach.
A hasty movement put her in possession of the picture of her brother and she said, turning involuntarily toward Amandus: "My brother's portrait!
Will raised his head with a jerk, and the men involuntarily drew back from the glare of his bloodshot eyes.
He looked at her keenly for an instant, and involuntarily an exclamation broke from his lips: "Katrine!
Do not be afraid, my sons," said the monk, softening his tones involuntarily at the sight of such suffering.
He stood before his visitor with such resolution in his hollow eyes, and stern contempt in the rigid lines about his mouth, that the monk involuntarily stepped back a space.
She made no remark, but clasped her hands together and drew them tightly across her breast, while her eyes glanced involuntarily upward.
I owned to her that the scene had appeared to me so much in the bourgeois style, that I involuntarily thought of the cutlets on the gridiron, and the omelette, which in families in humble circumstances serve to piece out short commons.
Involuntarily he looked up, and a sudden pang, as at the vision of the disembodied, shot through his heart.
Simultaneously with the stopping of the plate, and this new feeling which I have tried to describe, Hugh involuntarily raised his eyes towards the door of the room.
Yet Harry shuddered involuntarily at the thought of his own daring speech.
He continued his circuit of observation, trying to discover the face of Funkelstein in the boxes or circles; but involuntarily he turned his gaze back to the strange countenance, which still seemed bent towards his.
Involuntarily prayer wells forth in sound; the struggling heart bursts the barrier of the closed lips.
Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.
Hence intercourse ameliorates and elevates; involuntarily and without disguise, man is different in intercourse from what he is when alone.
Pain must give itself utterance; involuntarily the artist seizes the lute that he may breathe out his sufferings in its tones.
Man, by means of the imagination, involuntarilycontemplates his inner nature; he represents it as out of himself.
The law is dead; but example animates, inspires, carries men involuntarily along with it.
Real, sensational existence is that which is not dependent on my own mental spontaneity or activity, but by which I am involuntarily affected, which is when I am not, when I do not think of it or feel it.
In the longing of love after the distant object, the abstract idealist involuntarily confirms the truth of sensuousness.
Involuntarily she crushed up the telegram she held in her hand and threw it away from her.
He was almost bewildered by the proud-spirited frankness of her message to him; and involuntarily he thought of the poor devil of a poet in the garret who spoke of his faithful friend and his worthless mistress.
His first glance sought Lieschen, who had been standing behind him, and, who involuntarily held out her hand to him, while tears stood in her frank eyes.
Involuntarily Egon passed his hand across his eyes, as if to banish the vision of the moment.
Involuntarily the image of the real Pigglewitch arose in his mind, he saw the ridiculous figure kneeling singing upon the green bank, then suddenly start up and leap into the water.
Involuntarily Herr von Osternau compared the two men in his mind.
He walked through the garden out into the fields, involuntarily striking into the path leading to the Oster meadows.
Herr von Ernau has found his way over here in spite of the doctor, and I played eavesdropper involuntarily just now at the door of 'the master's arbour,' and can assure you that Fraeulein Lieschen will not go very far away from Linau.
Involuntarily he had uttered an exclamation of dismay, which called Frau von Osternau to his side, and together they had looked on while Egon reduced Soliman to submission.
Involuntarily he glided after a brief prelude into one of Schumann's wonderful reveries.
Involuntarily he recoiled a step, and with a gesture of abhorrence cried, "No, no, I cannot!
Involuntarily the hands upon the keys began to give expression to the gladness that arose within him.
In truth Egon was giddy for a moment, andinvoluntarily availed himself of the hand she extended to him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "involuntarily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
