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Sentences starting with compelled

Compelled persons to make up their minds about her! [9]
Compelled to go, it decides to go suddenly. [4]
Compelled to, my friends, by the sense of justice and the righteous indignation of the citizens of Brampton. [9]
Compelled to choose between these vows, I accept that as supreme which I made when I affirmed that I would teach nothing which I should be persuaded might not be concluded and affirmed by the Scripture. [9]

Short sentences using compelled

Carnac compelled thought. [11]

More example sentences with the word compelled in them

I may trust you; and never betray to Antinous what you compelled me to do? [10]
Contradict me if you can, proud prefect's daughter; but I warn you beforehand, that in that case, I shall be compelled to bring forward fresh charges. [10]
He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where--as old Nonna used to relate--evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. [10]
On she went, writing incessantly for three weeks; by which time she had carried her heroine away from Thornfield, and was herself in a fever which compelled her to pause. [14]
He had sometimes wondered, when he had been compelled to speak about his visits to the financier, how McCrae regarded them. [9]
This was the woman whom the world thought composed; who had triumphed over its opposition, compelled it to bow before her; who presented to it that self-possessed, unified personality by which he had been struck at their first meeting. [9]
The weary old woman had wanted to return home long before, but the command of the grand chamberlain compelled her to wait for Barbara and accompany her the short distance to the house. [10]
Many of the wives of our Union soldiers have been compelled to leave. [7]
No smoke mingled with this clear and genial blaze, but it compelled her to shade her dazzled eyes; and as she lifted her hand she woke to see Medius standing in front of her. [10]
Pontius had travelled with them from Thebes to Besa, and she had spared him nothing that could punish him for his long absence, and had mercilessly compelled him to listen to all her verses on Antinous. [10]
Herr Ortlieb's invalid wife could not spare Els, her older daughter and faithful nurse, so he required Eva's obedience, and compelled her to give up her opposition to attending the festival; but she dreaded the vain, worldly gaiety--nay, actually felt a horror of it. [10]
The bands to which the woman belonged were forced by the cavalry into the palaestra and the neighbouring Maander, and kept there until Eumedes brought re-enforcements and compelled the Gauls to surrender. [10]
The favorite song, which the crowd compelled her to repeat, touched lightly the uncertainties of love, expressed in the falsetto pathetic refrain: "Mary's gone away wid de coon. [4]
Yet the tranquillity, which formerly exerted so beneficial an effect, had departed, and the measures of precaution he now felt compelled to adopt, like everything else that brought him into connection with the world, interrupted the progress of his work. [10]
He had that which compelled interest--a suggestive, personal, distinguished air. [11]
The grounds on which Caracalla had based the assertion that destiny had compelled him to murder Geta appeared to her young and inexperienced mind as indisputable. [10]
Upon these resolutions when they shall be put on their passage I shall be compelled to vote; so that I cannot be silent if I would. [7]
He did exactly what he chose, and compelled other men to do it. [9]
Taking stock of what he brought in, Smith found food enough to last till the next harvest, and at once organized the company into bands of ten or fifteen, and compelled them to go to work. [4]
A hundred guns were instantly leveled at him; whereupon he turned and fled; but, being brought back, he was compelled to resume his coat, and to give a promise of future peaceable demeanor. [5]
She knew full well the meaning of the deep lines that marked his lips and brow; for Porphyrius had never made any secret of his distress and vexation whenever he found himself compelled to confess a creed in which he did not honestly believe. [10]
The last few weeks had claimed his entire time and strength so rigidly and urgently that he would have been compelled to refuse Barbara's demands upon his love or neglect serious duties. [10]
Before a fatal weakness suddenly attacked him his health had been rather better than before; then his voice failed, and Quijada was compelled to kneel beside his bed that he might understand what he wished to impress upon him. [10]
Warm-hearted as she was, she fully realized the debt of gratitude she owed to the lady Euryale; and she could not blame the high-priest, whom prudence certainly compelled to close his doors against her. [10]
But this bet was what compelled me to drag you all from Kadolzburg and its charms so early, and induce you to attend me on the reckless ride through the moonlit night. [10]
Liverpool, where he was compelled to pass most of his time, had few attractions for him, and his low spirits did not permit him to avail himself of such social advantages as were offered. [4]
Pretty soon I was compelled to notice that a culprit's nationality made for or against him in this court. [5]
I did not want to wake Harris a second time, but the gnawing continued until I was compelled to throw the other shoe. [5]
True, he has vanquished foes enough, but the demon of melancholy, that makes even Dr. Mathys anxious, is far worse than the infidels before whom you were compelled to retreat in Algiers--far more terrible than the Turks and heretics combined. [10]
But of what use were such riches as his when his religion and morality compelled him to banish from him all the joys in the power of riches to bring? [9]
The duties imposed upon him by the service compelled him to live apart from his beloved, young, and beautiful wife, Dona Magdalena de Ulloa, who had remained at his castle Villagarcia in Spain. [10]
And these two undertakings compelled him to be diligent with his pen to the end of his life. [4]
For the first two years Costa had remained far in advance of his pupil, then he was compelled to defend himself in good earnest, and now it not unfrequently happened that the smith vanquished the scholar. [10]
Having seen the two serving-men dispose, in a convenient place, the refreshment which Lempriere's appetite compelled, the fool took command of the occasion and made the two sit upon a bank, while he prepared the repast. [11]
Nevertheless I did turn it over--a highly educated fear compelled me to do that--but succeeding days of cheerfulness and sunshine came bothering around, and within a month I had so drifted backward that again I was as lost and comfortable as ever. [5]
It was a tremendous conception of Democracy, that of acquiescence to developed leadership made responsible; a conception I was compelled to confess transcended Mr. Watling's, loyal as I was to him.... [9]
He could not translate her looks; and she, on her part, had she been compelled to do so, could only have set down a confusion of sensations. [11]
Just as exactly, too; for the correctness and propriety with which these terms are introduced have compelled the admiration of a Chief Justice and a Lord Chancellor. [5]
Miss Millicent Skinner, too, was in a like mysterious way compelled to abdicate her high place in favor of Cynthia, and Wetherell was utterly unable to explain how this miracle was accomplished. [9]
Els resolved not to utter a word about the Swiss unless compelled to do so. [10]
When he came to the Harlem Bridge he was compelled to rest. [4]
I compelled them to tell what hands and what arms were left on board. [11]
Jane tried not to step in his blood, but was compelled, for she found no other footing. [13]
He is compelled to serve the lord of the land every year with so much labor of his hands. [9]
I was compelled to report this alarming situation to Ogilvy and Dickinson and a few chosen members of a panicky board of directors. [9]
The visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it necessary to take some part in it. [2]
We were compelled to jump over upwards of eighteen hundred donkeys, and only one person in the party was unseated less than sixty times by the camels. [5]
He was compelled to give up practice for one or two years, his business being divided among the neighboring practitioners. [3]
Rameses compelled her to give her daughter to the charioteer. [10]
Those who wished to escape fasting are now compelled by poverty to practise abstinence. [10]
If he attempted to do so, she quickly interrupted him and compelled him to turn to her again. [10]
Henderson was compelled to be in the city most of the time, and Jack Delancy fancied that business required his presence there also; but he had bought a yacht, and contemplated a voyage, with several of the club men, up the Maine coast. [4]
Unfortunately, he was to atone only too speedily for this offence against medical advice, for his heated blood increased the twinges of the gout to such a degree that he was compelled to relinquish his desire to listen to the exquisite singing longer. [10]
She was forced to admit that he was a judge of men, compelled to admire his adroitness in dealing with them. [9]
For the first time she ventured to call herself unhappy and, while walking through the streets with downcast eyes against the wind, struggled vainly to resist some mysterious, gloomy power, that compelled her to minutely recall everything that had resulted differently from her expectations. [10]
His head was thrown forward even more than his deformity compelled, his white teeth showed in a grimace of hatred; he was half-crouched, like an animal ready to spring. [11]
Has he striven through long weeping years to find excuses for the lapse of an only brother; and through daily contact with a poor lost profligate, been compelled into a certain familiarity with the vices that his soul abhors? [14]
He was scarcely three years older than herself; he was eighteen--but in spite of his youth and simplicity he was not unmanly; and there was something in him--something that compelled her to be constantly thinking of him and asking herself what that something was. [10]
It was as though she held up a mirror and compelled me to look at my soul features. [9]
Heaven grant that this which I have been compelled to hear may be no more than a fleeting and foolish whim! [10]
And, in truth, this mighty sovereign, racked by almost unendurable pain, dealt cruelly enough with himself when he compelled his aching knee to bend until consciousness threatened to fail under the excess of agony. [10]
He would do this always exactly in this way; he never was content to stay in the chamber if we compelled him to go upstairs and through the door. [4]
He began to think of improving Surprise Valley as a place to live in, for there was no telling how long they would be compelled to stay there. [13]
Still, all these things had probably been only the tribute which she was compelled to pay for the proud joy of being the mother of such a son. [10]
It is one thing to believe one's self orthodox, and quite another to have that orthodoxy so definitely defined as to be compelled, whether or no, to look it squarely in the face and own or disown it. [9]
It was one thing to be free to lead a life of single self-culture, and quite another to be compelled to lead a single fife without self-culture. [4]
Providence compelled all these men, striving to attain personal aims, to further the accomplishment of a stupendous result no one of them at all expected--neither Napoleon, nor Alexander, nor still less any of those who did the actual fighting. [2]
He foolishly compelled them to undergo a long, exhausting march, in the scorching sun, and then, without water or other refreshment, ordered them to encamp in this open plain. [5]
Unfortunately, we found the young birds already hatched, and were compelled to return with our errand unperformed. [10]
Now we know the tremendous force which has compelled the "unanimity" of the Southern people. [6]
Again he recalled the torments which he had endured when compelled to witness how completely she yielded to the passion which drew her to Antony. [10]
What showed upon the surface was a serene and lofty contentment and a dignity of carriage and gravity of deportment which compelled the admiration and likewise the wonder of the company. [5]
He wandered about the streets at night alone, serenaded fair ladies, and compelled many gentlemen, who offended him, to meet him in single combat. [10]
I also trusted the spell of the goblet, which had already compelled Antony to do many things he opposed. [10]
A writer in the 'Spectator' (March 12, 1871, p. 320) comments as follows on this passage:--"Mr. Darwin finds himself compelled to reintroduce a new doctrine of the fall of man. [1]
But he measured the six feet and more of Austen Vane with his eye, and in spite of himself experienced the compelled admiration of one fighting man for another. [9]
Only too often the same drinking and carousing had gone on below as to-day-Henrica had always been compelled to join her aunt's guests, elderly dissolute men of French or Italian origin and easy morals. [10]
But at last the odious thing was over, grim and implacable Law satisfied after he had compelled them to stand in line for an interminable period before his grill, and mingle with those whom he chose, in his ignorance, to call their peers. [9]
Everything that bore the name of Egyptian was hateful or suspicious to the Roman, and it was hard to forgive this woman, born on the banks of the Nile, for having seen Julius Caesar at her feet and compelled Mark Antony to do her bidding. [10]
I looked beyond the mourning friends, and thought what kind of an epitaph they would be compelled to put upon the stone. [4]
If George rode the huge rocking-horse, he was Paul Revere, or some equally historic figure, and sometimes, to Edith's terror, he was compelled to assume the role of Bluebeard, when Honora submitted to decapitation with a fortitude amounting to stoicism. [9]
It remained for the Duc de Mauban to speak the word which hastened and compelled the end. [11]
It happened that the day was Sunday, and if we had been as punctilious as some New England Sabbatarians, we might have felt compelled to decline the tempting invitation. [6]
Undismayed, forgetful of the admiring crowd, unconscious of their stares until--until the very strength of his gaze had compelled her own. [9]
Hence it ensued, that what her mind has gathered of the real concerning them, was too exclusively confined to those tragic and terrible traits, of which, in listening to the secret annals of every rude vicinage, the memory is sometimes compelled to receive the impress. [14]
Fillmore Street knew that the flat visored cap which his corporation compelled him to wear covered a brain into which had penetrated the maggot of the Single Tax. [9]
She always said that she liked simplicity--a common failing among people who are not compelled to observe it. [4]
The surgeons said that pretty often a patient was compelled to laugh, in the midst of his pangs, but that had never caught one crying out, after the open-air exhibition was instituted. [5]
I sincerely trust that neither you nor any of your readers, and especially none with families, may ever be placed in such seeming direct proximity to death while obliged to decide the one question I was compelled to, viz. [5]
It is lucky that in selling such rascals we should be compelled to state what their faults are; if the seller fails to do so compensation maybe claimed from him by the next owner for what he may lose. [10]
He knows, too, that in regard to the Mexican War story the more respectable papers of his own party throughout the State have been compelled to take it back and acknowledge that it was a lie. [7]
M. Guizot confesses that France, in order to adopt the ancient models, was compelled to limit its field in some sort to one corner of human existence. [4]
What was it that compelled their talk about themselves, that made them refrain from asking those questions about Boston, and why she had come back? [9]
And bids me tell you how sorry she is that she is compelled to miss so much of your visit to England. [9]
A wife of such rigid austerity would suit him, for he would often be compelled to leave her a long time alone. [10]
We found the state palace of the Governor of Nevada Territory to consist of a white frame one-story house with two small rooms in it and a stanchion supported shed in front--for grandeur--it compelled the respect of the citizen and inspired the Indians with awe. [5]
Alert-minded drunk or sober, drunk, he was lightning-tongued, and he could play as well drunk as sober, too; but more than once a sympathetic officer altered the tactics that McGilveray might not be compelled to march, and so expose his condition. [11]
With matchlocks lighted, Smith forced the Indians to load the boats; but as they were aground, and could not be got off till high water, he was compelled to spend the night on shore. [4]
Presently he turned, slowly, as if her eyes had compelled his. [9]
And if they should not of their own free will, I have only to look around this meeting to be convinced that they will be compelled to. [9]

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