Mind you, I don't mean that one of us pushes the board in the right direction, at least not consciously, but it is inevitable that the mind leaps ahead, and when a word is started we know, usually, what letter is coming next, and we receptively await it.
"The Come Back"
Carolyn Wells
It might have been a lesson, for our young American, in the art of seeing things as they were-a lesson so various and so sustained that the pupil had, as we have shown, but receptively to gape.
"The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2"
Henry James
His arms were still receptively outstretched, but suddenly he felt that attitude to have become absurd.
"A Pagan of the Hills"
Charles Neville Buck