All 3 Uses of
compel
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- So excited and alarmed was he that I was compelled to go down to the spot where the animal had been and look around for it.†
Chpt 2 *
- MY DEAR HOLMES,—If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events are now crowding thick and fast upon us.†
Chpt 9
- Now, however, I have arrived at a point in my narrative where I am compelled to abandon this method and to trust once more to my recollections, aided by the diary which I kept at the time.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(compel) to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do something