A man-killer, a creature maddened beyond reason, its former domestication replaced by instincts age-old in its species; no longer the smallholder's animal, it was a goat gone feral.

His mouth went dry as he looked at the creature, age-old instincts stirring the hairs on the back of his neck.

The creature knew through age-old instinct that the sea turtles were returning to the island to lay their eggs.

Advocates argue back that the hounds are acting out of an age-old instinct and that death is instantaneous when the lead hound catches the fox by the throat.

But the age-old instinct of survival before all else gave way in Sheila Feinberg to another instinct-the longing to reproduce one's kind.

She wanted to look good for Dane because she was responding to the age-old instinct of women everywhere who felt the need to dress up and be beautiful for their men.

Then he woke again and leaped up, all his age-old instincts shrilling out their danger signals.

Some primitive part of her responded to the age-old instincts of predator and prey.

She had the age-old instinct of women to lie to younger women about labour pains, so that dread might not make things worse for them when their own time came.

It was the age-old instinct to avert danger by pretending to ignore its asserting itself in her.