All 6 Uses of
impel
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- In an instant he was placed in the stern-sheets of the boat, between the gendarmes, while the officer stationed himself at the bow; a shove sent the boat adrift, and four sturdy oarsmen impelled it rapidly towards the Pilon.†
Chpt 7-8 *
- The Monte Pincio seemed a vast amphitheatre filled with spectators; the balconies of the two churches at the corner of the Via del Babuino and the Via di Ripetta were crammed; the steps even seemed a parti-colored sea, that was impelled towards the portico; every niche in the wall held its living statue.†
Chpt 35-36
- …indeed be a great chemist, and the elixir you administered to my son, which recalled him to life almost instantaneously"— "Oh, do not place any reliance on that, madame; one drop of that elixir sufficed to recall life to a dying child, but three drops would have impelled the blood into his lungs in such a way as to have produced most violent palpitations; six would have suspended his respiration, and caused syncope more serious than that in which he was; ten would have destroyed him.†
Chpt 51-52
- "Reverend sir, I am impelled"— "Every criminal says the same thing."†
Chpt 81-82
- "Oh," said Morrel, "I know not, indeed, if I may reveal this secret to mortal ears, but fatality impels me, necessity constrains me, count"—Morrel hesitated.†
Chpt 93-94
- The horses, impelled by fear, flew towards the house.†
Chpt 111-112
Definition:
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(impel) to make someone feel they must do something