When Christmas morning comes, popular song and cultural instinct assure us that home - "if the fates allow" - is the place from which we're not supposed to be away.

His instincts were assuring him of that.

Some nameless instinct assured him that even greater ecstasies lay near at hand.

Something, so his sensitive instincts assured him, was in the wind.

A deeper instinct assured him he wasn't that old.

Yet instinct assured her that she and Travis didn't belong together.

His instincts assured him this was the wrong thing to do.

Tanar moved always in one direction and his homing instinct assured him that the direction lay toward Sari.

Every instinct she possessed assured her of that.

His own thoughts were a roil of disappointment and sorrow that he had so displeased his respected overlord, simply by doing mat which his instinct and training assured him was right.