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Sentences starting with force

Force of habit still sent him to Gordon's Pride, but for days he would have nothing to say to the mistress of it, or she to him. [9]
Force of habit sent men to their places of business, to sit idle. [9]
Force a peace; or 2. [5]
Force was the only recognized authority. [5]
Force it down his throat--he's not responsible," said the physician, to whom saving life was more than all else. [11]
Force was also applied to the Inquisitor, and he was obliged to submit. [5]
Force does not admit of explanation, nor of proper definition, any more than the hypothetical substratum of matter. [3]

Sentences ending with force

In all the years I've spent here I've never seen one that could compare with him in nature, character, and force. [11]
I believe there would be physical resistance to it which could neither be turned aside by argument nor driven away by force. [7]
The further we went the more formidable was the strength revealed by the hostile force. [5]
Independently of the well-known causes which raise or depress the standard of vitality, there seems to be,--I think I may venture to say there is,--a rhythmic undulation in the flow of the vital force. [6]
Late as it was, I flew to New York and got a policeman to conduct me to the headquarters of the detective force. [5]
For their standard was a standard of might the only right; but he--his whole life had been nurtured in an atmosphere of right and justice, had been a spiritual demonstration against force. [11]
The tourist should visit that ice-cavern, by all means, for it is well worth the trouble; but I would advise him to go only with a strong and well-armed force. [5]
She was coiled up in a corner of the sofa, her eyes sparkling with admiration of his indignation and force. [4]
This, however, seems unlikely, because any statements elicited by fear or force could not be evidence in law or could be so explained as to have no force. [5]
After them in turn came the forces of the Commander-in-Chief, which joined on in the rear of Havelock's force. [5]

Short sentences using force

His personal force was remarkable. [11]
He must force some talk. [5]
Demand it, force it? [11]
It was just force. [5]
Not in strong force, however. [5]
Her force people felt. [9]
The Englishmen represented brute force. [3]
You have to apply force. [11]
It had force and imagination. [11]
The force wavered. [11]

Sentences containing force two or more times

General Banks at Williamsport, with his old force and his new force at Harper's Ferry, is directed to co-operate. [7]
At the Hill we have a force of 8000, under General Sherman, and about an equal force of rebels is a very short distance south, under General Buckner. [7]
He knew he was in these men's power, that only by force had they brought him there, that force alone gave them the right to demand answers to their questions, and that the sole object of that assembly was to inculpate him. [2]
The British army, twenty-five thousand strong, admirably equipped, and supported by a powerful naval force, threatened to envelop our poor force, and finish the war in a stroke. [4]
Do you know to what those miserable papers force me, the Emperor?--ay, force, I repeat it. [10]
It was as though he, too, were seeking to deflect and guide a force --the Force of forces. [9]
That is a sort of force, and force is bad. [5]
But if we send all the force from here to McClellan, the enemy will, before we can know of it, send a force from Richmond and take Washington. [7]
While you have only asked for Sigel, I have spoken only of Banks, and this because Sigel's force is now the principal part of Bank's force. [7]
Many of the old force were missed, and a new and greater force were come in. [9]

More example sentences with the word force in them

Try to have your force, or the advance of it, at Front Royal as soon. [7]
But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. [7]
Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition. [4]
I can assure you, Miss Carvel," added Stephen, speaking with a force which made her start and thrill, "I can assure you from a personal knowledge of the German troops that they are not a riotous lot, and that they are under perfect control. [9]
I repeat to you, it will neither be done nor attempted, unless you watch it every day and hour, and force it. [7]
The cruelest thing you Yankees did was to force us, who couldn't fight, to go over there for sympathy. [4]
In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy's forces from leaving Richmond and falling in overwhelming force upon General McDowell. [7]
I would force you to your knees and compel you to crave my pardon. [10]
By ingenious fetters you force the mighty winged intellect to content itself within the narrow world of reality. [10]
McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
I am glad you believe in the force of transmitted tendencies. [6]
The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
All the possible years of her life were gathered into the force of one dreadful moment--dreadful and wonderful. [11]
More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign relations, none in our home popular sentiment, none in our white military force, no loss by it any how, or anywhere. [7]
He finds good writing and sound philosophy, passages of great force and beauty of expression, marred by obscurity, under assumptions and faults of style. [6]
Some, no doubt, would rather have fought than have had peace at the price; but they could not free their minds from the sacred force which had brought most of the crowd of faction-fighters to their knees. [11]
But how long would it take to turn that circle into a polygon, unless some mighty counteracting force should prevent it? [6]
I think he would force all this country to speak English in two months. [4]
In fact, it would ere long force reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost. [7]
And this course would be his own course largely, since he had been appointed to be a force and strength in the Foreign Office which his chief did not supply. [11]
They said they would "admire" to see a "Gentile" force a Mormon to fulfil a losing contract in Utah! [5]
One other very worthy citizen of Kentucky did solicit me to have the augmenting of the force suspended for a time. [7]
These are magnificent words; the have a force and magnitude of sound befitting the things which they describe. [5]
Exploding at the word intriguer, Nicholas, raising his voice, told his mother he had never expected her to try to force him to sell his feelings, but if that were so, he would say for the last time.... [2]
Moreover, a magistrate won't be able to force a man to work for a master a whole year on a stretch whether the man wants to or not. [5]
And when a woman begins to admit that a man has force, her curiosity usually increases. [9]
They were mixed with the solid achievement of talent and force in the business of life. [11]
Presently she said with incredible quietness, "Do not force me to do hard things. [11]
The wind blew with equal force from both quarters, but on one side it blew on smoldering fuel, and on the other on overflowing and flaming stores. [10]
Pierre had spoken with a slow force and precision, yet, as he went on, his eyes almost became fixed on those shifting flames, and a deep look came into them, as he was moved by his own eloquence. [11]
Caesar had come with a force by no means equal to theirs, and it might be possible to draw the mighty general into a snare. [10]
Was it not with a divine purpose that this measureless force of patriotism and high ideal had been given to this youngest of the nations, that its high mission might be fulfilled? [9]
And as he wiped away her tears with his handkerchief he could scarcely believe his senses that this was the woman whose resistance had demanded all his force to overcome. [9]
He intended to win by force what was denied him, so long as the power belonged to him. [10]
In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80's in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain. [5]
You know I will not force your inclinations, but, if I am to lose Mopsus, I should like a pleasant son. [10]
Whatever she desires whose fulfilment will not force me to despise myself is granted in advance. [10]
I suppose the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time; and if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. [7]
That is the whole force of Douglas's argument. [7]
The five men who had ridden forward would have to force their way through the mass of scorched and dried up vegetation. [10]
There were others who had climbed to success in their own way, some by happy accident, some by a force which disregarded anything in their way, and some by sheer honest rough merit, through which the soul of the true pioneer shone. [11]
It was he who first confided in me that he would not force Antoinette to marry; it was she, at length, who told me the story of Nicholas Temple and his mother. [9]
It was Richter who brought the full force of it home to Stephen. [9]
And all the while the river flowing through the endless prairies, high-banked, ennobled by living woods, lipped with green, kept surging in her ears, inviting her, alluring her--alluring her with a force too deep and powerful for weak human nature to bear for long. [11]
Besides the sun, which when the battle began had just risen, was already sinking to rest and should it prove necessary to force an entrance into the oasis it was not advisable to fight in darkness. [10]
The subtle force which is in every human being, more or less active, has this power, as if love were somehow a principle pervading nature itself, and capable of transforming it. [4]
The little garrison, which had done no more than issue in sorties, was now throwing its full force on the enemy in a last desperate endeavour. [11]
Whether the questions which assail my young friend have risen in my reader's mind or not, he knows perfectly well that nobody can keep such questions from springing up in every young mind of any force or honesty. [6]
With some gesticulation which added greatly to the force of the story, he gave a most terse and vivid account of Mr. John's arrival at the embankment by the grove--of his charging a whole regiment of Union volunteers. [9]
It had prevailed when men were open robbers and filibusters and warriors, giving their lives, if need be, to get what they wanted, making force their god. [11]
I learned this when Caesar was prisoned by a greatly superior force within this very palace, his ships burned, his supply of water cut off. [10]
It chanced that, when an impasse seemed possible to be broken only by force, a telegram came to John Grier at Montreal telling him of the difficulty. [11]
Something pregnant in what I said had struck home, yet I could not guess then what it was, though afterwards it came to me with great force and vividness. [11]
But if you were to force me by the rack to form a definite opinion of her, I could not do it. [10]
To these considerations were to be joined other circumstances which we need not here mention, of a nature to add greatly to their force, and which would go far of themselves to determine his action. [6]
His best days were done, the spring of his life was gone, and the step was that of a man who had little more of activity and force with which to turn the halting wheels of life. [11]
Officers and privates were acted on by the force known as Sergeant Fones. [11]
Get your force well in hand and stand on the defensive, guarding against a movement of the enemy either back toward Strasburg or toward Franklin, and await further orders, which will soon be sent you. [7]
On the 28th we sent General Burnside an order to send all the force he could spare to you. [7]
In our time we have organized that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
In our time we have organised that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
General Halleck says we have absolutely no force here fit to go to the field. [7]
Do they think we are communing with a reserve force of rascals at the bottom? [5]
It was his way to force things to his liking, if possible; and he wanted to hear about the woman--why, he did not ask himself. [11]
Then Havelock's force was similarly withdrawn, post by post, marching in rear of our garrison. [5]
So the inquiry was shifted once more to the revelations made to the King--secrets which the court had tried again and again to force out of Joan, but without success. [5]
If McDowell's force was now beyond our reach, we should be utterly helpless. [7]
That wild spirit was now a force which understood itself in a new if uncompleted way. [11]
His trouble now was in proportion to the force of his character. [11]
The band itself was half asleep, but by sheer force of habit it kept on, the fiddlers drawing the perfunctory bows, and the melancholy clarionet men breathing their expressive sighs. [4]
Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher's and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn't, and then he swore he'd make the law force him. [5]
But suddenly he was brought up short by the blocky body of Mr. Hopper, who grunted with the force of the impact. [9]
Crudeness he saw, vulgarity he heard, but Force he felt, and marvelled. [9]
But yet," her voice suddenly changed, a note of plaintive force filled it--"I have learned much this hour--more than I ever knew. [11]
All at once, Virginia felt her partner gathering up his strength, and by some compelling force, more of wild than of muscle, draw her nearer. [9]
There was a violent break in the force of his feeling--then creeping blankness. [13]
According to this view the power of historical personages, represented as the product of many forces, can no longer, it would seem, be regarded as a force that itself produces events. [2]
This was a vessel and a force, truly, with which to conquer a fifty-gun ship of the latest type, and with a picked crew. [9]
And meanwhile, the very next morning after the battle, the French army advanced of itself upon the Russians, carried forward by the force of its own momentum now seemingly increased in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from its aim. [2]
But now the very force of a desire which had gathered strength in many years made him reckless. [9]
Whether it was vanity, or pride, or only the instinctive sense of inherited force and attraction, it was the best of defences. [6]
If he had used caution before, now he strained every nerve to force himself to creeping stealth and to sensitiveness of ear. [13]
And he'll force us, will he? [9]
Well then, let us profit by his difficulties, and force him to ratify some lost liberty for every revolted city that returns to him. [10]
He had even urged the magistrate to "rush" the wire, because it came home to him with stunning force that, if the money was not recovered, Jean Jacques would be a beggar. [11]
In your movement upon Chattanooga I think it probable that you include some combination of the force near Cumberland Gap under General Morgan. [7]
His force, when up, will be about 20,000. [7]
Smith sent men up to their town, a display of force was made by firing four guns, and the Indians kindly traded, giving fish, oysters, bread, and deer. [4]
He's been sitting up and talking to us--of course he's pale and weak and wasted, but in spite of that, Asher, he seems to have a strength, a force that he didn't have before he went away. [9]
The English sent up a glad shout and came surging down in strong force to take her, and then for a few minutes the might of both adversaries was concentrated upon that spot. [5]
I am still unwilling to take all our force off the direct line between Richmond and here. [7]
Yet this face, unlike Eglington's, expressed a perfect single-mindedness; it wore the look of a self-effacing man of luminous force, a concentrated battery of energy. [11]
Religion, as yet unidentified, is the force behind these portentous stirrings of politics in our country, from sea to sea. [9]
The Commissioner was uncertain what to do, as the Crees were restless through want of food and the absence of game, and a force sent to capture Arrowhead, the chief who had committed the murder, might precipitate trouble. [11]
After looking about two or three days, you called and distinctly told me that if I would add the Blenker division to the force already in the department, you would undertake the job. [7]
But Lali was trying to think it out, not only to feel, and she did not count that subterranean force which must play its part in this new situation in her drama of life. [11]
Hers was in truth no beauty of stone, but the beauty of force, --of life itself. [9]
Can you not trust that it will be a prevailing force, if your sympathies are with it, without demanding a revelation of the entire scheme of the universe? [9]
If this is true, it is as good as a reinforcement to you of an equal force. [7]

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