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Sentences ending with compel

And love is not a thing we can compel. [9]
If I can make sahtisfahctory arrangements with my present corpse of teachers, I shall be glad to do so; otherwise I shell, with the permission of the Trustees, make sech noo arrangements as circumstahnces compel. [6]

Short sentences using compel

More--I will compel it. [5]
I do not compel you. [10]

Sentences containing compel two or more times

It was too strong a nature to compel love often, but it never failed to compel admiration. [11]

More example sentences with the word compel in them

I would force you to your knees and compel you to crave my pardon. [10]
Such a place would give distinction to the city, and compel foreigners to recognize the high civilization of America. [4]
These strange and wonderful achievements move our awe and compel our admiration. [5]
He advises me--he will never compel me--to yield to a man whom I can never love. [10]
He could compel whom he chose to live with him; but of what use were silent and reluctant companions? [10]
At his side, when all was over, she would rest in the grave, and compel the world to remember with respectful sympathy the royal lovers, Antony and Cleopatra. [10]
While the doctor was trying to compel him to obey and enter the litter which stood waiting for him, he beat him back with his strong young fists. [10]
With the Arachne--he was sure of this--he would compel even his opponents to accord him the recognition for which hitherto he had striven in vain. [10]
He would not wait for starvation to compel the infidel to surrender. [11]
The judge insisted upon their answering, and proposed to compel them, but even the prosecution took fright and came to the rescue then, and helped stay the sturdy jurist's revolutionary hand. [5]
It is a truism to say that when the reader perceives that the author can compel his characters to do what he pleases all interest in them as real persons is gone. [4]
And it seemed to him that if he could compel her to recognize her position, and his own devotion, she might love him, and that he could save her. [5]
But whoever wishes to compel the field to bear fruits must dig sturdily, draw the buckets from the well, plough, and sow the seed. [10]
The passionate resolve to compel him to reproach himself in soul for his merciless, if subtle, indictment of her to bring him to the old place where he had knelt in spirit so long ago--ah, it was so long!--came to her. [11]
Would she not thus compel him inevitably to remember her whenever he should think of Paula? [10]
One of the three essays for which he received prizes had been written to compel his father to retract the "stupid fellow" with which he had insulted him. [10]
I knew all this would happen; I knew that ultimately the pressure would become so great that it would compel utterance; therefore, I must be ready with an answer at that time--an answer well chosen and tranquilizing. [5]
So long as this Will can compel the bodies of soldiers to do its bidding, these bodies must be destroyed. [9]
I formally declare this reading-room open, and I think that the legislature should not compel a community to provide itself with intelligent food, but give it the privilege of providing it if the community so desires. [5]
We'll put into this bill an appeal to our court for an order on the clerk to compel the witness to come before the court and testify, and we'll provide for a special commissioner to take depositions in the state where the witness is. [9]
Will you do this at once, or will you compel me to show you the absolute necessity of your doing it, at the expense of pain to both of us? [6]
As a rule they are pretty far-fetched, but that is not an important matter; they surprise, they compel admiration, and I notice by some of the comments which his efforts have called forth that they deceive the unwary. [5]
These latter compel the peasant to bring his little trifle of grain to the village, at his own cost. [5]
She neither heard the doctor's call nor saw his wife beckon, and when the former grasped her to compel her to rise, uttered a loud shriek. [10]
I tried all the different ways I could think of to compel myself to understand how large St. Peter's was, but with small success. [5]
Now go into the cave, for very probably some one may have heard you calling, and if other anchorites were to discover you here, they would compel me to take you back to your husband. [10]
Can we declare the Bank unconstitutional, and compel it to desist from the abuses of its power, provided we find such abuses to exist? [7]
They cannot compel the Bank to cease operations, or to change the course of its operations. [7]
But now suppose that your mind is in its nature discursive, erratic, subject to electric attractions and repulsions, volage; it may be impossible for you to compel your attention except by taking away all external disturbances. [6]
She heard again that voice, she saw again that inspired face; but the impression most indelible with her was the prostrate form, the pallid countenance, the helplessness of this man whose will had before been strong enough to compel the obedience of his despised body. [4]
And the fact that Austen Vane had seemingly not spoken in wrath, although forcefully enough to compel him to listen, had increased Mr. Flint's anger. [9]
And when a tardy justice shall arise and compel the people of this land to raise a shaft in memory of Clark and those who followed him, let not the loyalty of the French be forgotten, though it be not understood. [9]
He was a strange young man, with the rare marked look that would compel even a poor memory to pick him out again. [9]
I intend to send you to Madame Gravois's, and she will compel you to go to bed and rest. [9]
The nearer the sedan-chair came to the Ortlieb mansion the faster her heart beat, for that very day, probably within the next few hours, the abbess would compel her to choose between her father's house and the convent. [10]
It was a rule of Jethro's code either to make an effective departure or else to remain and compel the other man to make an ineffective departure. [9]
But--this is my right--I will compel her to show herself to me as Antony so often saw me during the past few weeks, unaided and unimproved by the arts which we both have at command. [10]
For if Mr. Rhodes's plan was to provoke a collision that would compel the interference of England, that was a serious matter. [5]
I shall not retire from the gratis platform until I am buried, and courtesy will compel me to keep still and not disturb the others. [5]
He did not raise his voice at the beginning, but his very presence seemed to compel silence, and curiosity was at fever heat. [9]
The ascending path pierced them; and often the Hebrews, as they entered, feared that the lofty cliffs in the distance would compel them to return. [10]
He had even persuaded the monarch to pursue the fugitives, and an army had been instantly summoned to compel their return. [10]
Their function, he perceived now, was precisely to compel him to see what had saved him, to reenforce it with the intellect, with the reason, and enable him to save others. [9]
Despite her grief over his return to that life, there was something to compel her awe and admiration in the way he had risen and done this thing after men had fallen from him. [9]
We farm them out and compel them to earn money for the State by making barrels and building roads. [5]
Their colonel, of our regular Army Engineer Corps, was one of those broad-shouldered six-footers who, when they walk the streets of Paris, compel pedestrians to turn admiringly and give one a new pride in the manhood of our nation. [9]
Next, in politics, organise your strength, band together, and deliver the casting-vote where you can, and, where you can't, compel as good terms as possible. [5]
There you are omnipotent; there you compel your due of recognition--you do not have to beg for it. [5]
But you will never compel me to a vile action, not if you could inflict a thousand deaths on me instead of one! [10]
The judge had never been a man who could compel a following, and he had no magnetism with which to lead a cause: the town tradesmen, especially those in the new brick block, would be chary as to risking the displeasure of their best customer. [9]
I would show my father, these companions of mine, and above all Nancy herself the stuff of which I was made, compel them sooner or later to admit that they had misjudged me. [9]
Surely Jethro Bass must have known that he could have taken no more exquisite vengeance than this, to compel a man--and such a man--to sit down in the white heat of passion--and write two letters of forgiveness! [9]
Must I compel men to render her fitting honor? [10]
Something in the man's manner seemed to compel her to answer, in spite of the form of the question. [9]
If the husband legally may compel his wife to show him her letters, the courts will before long grant the same privilege to the wife. [4]
I have seen it compel a subservience which makes me ashamed, as an American, to witness. [9]
Your immediate duty in regard to Missouri now is to advance the efficiency of that establishment, and to so use it, as far as practicable, to compel the excited people there to let one another alone. [7]
So far as I could see, the remark did not compel any increase of respect from our fellow-diners. [9]
Now, of course, I cannot compel every one to wear such clothing just for my especial benefit, so I do the next best thing and wear it myself. [5]
That will chain him to the spot and compel him to look once more, and once again, after he has satisfied all curiosity and lost all interest concerning the other matters pertaining to the locality. [5]
Her heart within her gave a great leap of exultation that her lover was a man strong enough to compel, strong enough to defend. [4]
Rarities are always helped by any device which will rouse curiosity and compel remark. [5]
We determined to have an organ, and we speculated whether, by erecting it in the apse, we could not fill up that elegant portion of the church, and compel the preacher's voice to leave it, and go out over the pews. [4]
The vista of happiness suddenly opened up, widened and widened until it was too bright for Cynthia's vision, and she would compel her mind to dwell on another prospect,--that of the father and son reconciled. [9]
Nast, like Clemens, had no special taste for platforming, and while undoubtedly there would have been large profits in the combination, the promise of the venture did not compel his acceptance. [5]
The plant which grows from the seed you place in the earth may be crushed, but no power in the world will compel the seed to develop differently or produce fruit unlike what Nature has assigned to it. [10]
It'll now go forth to compel you to the will of the Church. [13]
And, at all events, if we cannot inspire love we shall at least compel respect for our country wherever we go. [5]
That is the end of it, Nefert--and I only say, Come and join me, work with me, prove yourself of use, and compel Mena to think of his wife, not with affection only, but with pride. [10]
Philip therefore read diligently in the Astor library, planned literary works that should compel attention, and nursed his genius. [5]
A figure of dignity and power, with magnetism to compel moods. [9]
England was so dear to us that the Colonies could only be absolutely disunited by violence from England, and only one man could compel the resort to violence. [6]
She knew she could compel him, if she chose, to throw caution to the winds. [9]
But if you compel me well, the whole thing seems to be a kind of imitation. [4]
You will not compel me to tell you, nor try to discover through any other man, who may have spoken or written any particular satire. [10]
How could she compel Eglington to do right in this thing--do right by his own father's son? [11]
Ladies and gentlemen, circumstances over which I have no control compel me prematurely to dismiss the house. [5]
One could always, by adroitness, compel a legal opponent to fight the matter out all over again on new ground, or at least on ground partially new. [9]
All is over between him and me, and if he appears to-day in the procession, and if he chooses to look at me again I will compel my eyes to avoid meeting his--aye, that I will, and will carry it through. [10]
He had not been able to induce M. Aubert to compel Angele to accept a quiet refuge at Kenilworth; he saw that this plan would not work, and he deployed his mind upon another. [11]
It is just as unwise to try to make a man happy by force as it is wicked to compel him to be unhappy, and I thank you for granting my request. [10]
She had now and then created international difficulty, and Ismail, tolerant enough, had been tempted to compel her to leave the country, but, with a zeal which took on an aspect of self-opinionated audacity, she had kept on. [11]
Such a people, and such achievements as theirs, compel homage. [5]
There are faces and figures that compel universal attention and admiration. [4]
For the smallest actions of these rare men of master passions so compel us. [9]
For my lately acquired motive was strong enough to compel me to restrict myself socially, and the evenings I spent at home were given to study, usually in my own room. [9]

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