All 8 Uses of
impel
in
Middlemarch
- The sanctity seemed no less clearly marked than the learning, for when Dorothea was impelled to open her mind on certain themes which she could speak of to no one whom she had before seen at Tipton, especially on the secondary importance of ecclesiastical forms and articles of belief compared with that spiritual religion, that submergence of self in communion with Divine perfection which seemed to her to be expressed in the best Christian books of widely distant ages, she found in Mr.…†
Chpt 1
- The excessive feeling manifested would alone have been highly disturbing to Mr. Casaubon, but there were other reasons why Dorothea's words were among the most cutting and irritating to him that she could have been impelled to use.†
Chpt 2
- She was impelled to have the argument aloud, which she had been having in her own mind.†
Chpt 2 *
- In fact, it is probable that but for Mary's existence and Fred's love for her, his conscience would have been much less active both in previously urging the debt on his thought and impelling him not to spare himself after his usual fashion by deferring an unpleasant task, but to act as directly and simply as he could.†
Chpt 3
- She was oppressed by ennui, and by that dissatisfaction which in women's minds is continually turning into a trivial jealousy, referring to no real claims, springing from no deeper passion than the vague exactingness of egoism, and yet capable of impelling action as well as speech.†
Chpt 6
- He had really a movement of anger against her at that moment, and it impelled him to go away without pause.†
Chpt 6
- It was his gladness then which impelled him now to be glad that the life was at an end.†
Chpt 7
- "I don't doubt you any longer," said Dorothea, putting out her hand; a vague fear for him impelling her unutterable affection.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(impel) to make someone feel they must do something