... “Ambition,” replied Aramis, “is the feeling which prompts a man to desire more—much more—than he possesses...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... Although the Belle-Isle plot backfired, Colbert prompts the king to ask Fouquet for more and more money, and without his two friends to raise it for him, Fouquet is sorely pressed...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...They feed chiefly on grass; and as they come from the north about the time when the grass most abounds, it can not be want of food that prompts the movement...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...It needs some effort on our part to realise the frame of mindwhich prompts these attempts...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...20: "The ugly is understood as a sign and symptomof degeneration; that which reminds us in the remotest manner ofdegeneracy prompts us to pronounce the verdict 'ugly...
Anthony M. Ludovici 「Nietzsche and Art」
...It is love that prompts her to treat him so; and if she feels great love for him, he feels a hundred thousand times as much for her...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
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