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  • But he wasn't mainly impelled by politics or religion, he'd say.†   (source)
  • Racing through the ocher light, Bigwig was impelled by a frenzy of tension and energy.†   (source)
  • The pot was firmly placed in the center of the table, but just as soon as the child made his announcement, it began an unmistakable movement toward the edge, as if impelled by some inner dynamism, and it fell and broke on the floor.†   (source)
  • For a moment, Galbatorix appeared aggravated; then he spokethe Word again—as well as other words in the ancient language besides—and the vow Eragon had uttered seemed to lose all meaning; the words lay in his mind like a handful of dead leaves, devoid of any power to impel or inspire.†   (source)
  • Impelled by the birds of fortuity fluttering down on her shoulders, she took a week's leave and, without a word to her mother, boarded the train to Prague.†   (source)
  • I believe in the power of duty to impel.†   (source)
  • Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant.†   (source)
  • But after attending several sessions of the local court, he felt himself "irresistibly impelled" to the law.†   (source)
  • I believe it was the dregs of my own mother-courage—the force within a woman that will drive her to do that for her babe that she would not dream was within her power to do—that impelled me to fling myself against that door so that it gave way and left me standing there, confronting Aphra and her snake.†   (source)
  • When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she felt light, lifted, impelled to action.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was the worry, the haste with which they had to move to get away, the fact she felt impelled to urge them to move faster and faster; anyway, her head began to ache.†   (source)
  • Before closing I feel impelled to mention one other point in your statement that has troubled me profoundly.†   (source)
  • The only explanation which I could think of for this mass exodus was that I had somehow disturbed the wolves so seriously they had felt impelled to abandon their den.†   (source)
  • While the Christian moralist in oneself was impelled to deplore the atrocious nature of the IRA's campaign of bombings and killings, and the "mere Irish" in oneself was appalled by the ruthlessness of the British Army on occasions like Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972, the minority citizen in oneself, the one who had grown up conscious that his group was distrusted and discriminated against in all kinds of official and unofficial ways, this citizen's perception was at one with the poetic…†   (source)
  • Its drama lay in its lack of drama, in its quietness, in the courtesies we felt impelled to extend to one another.†   (source)
  • The small triumph impelled her to go on.†   (source)
  • I never wrote another such story as that, but other sorts of vision, dream, illusion, hallucination, obsession, and that most wonderful interior vision which is memory, have all gone to make up my stories, to form and to project them, to impel them.†   (source)
  • But once again the sense of honor bred in him for generations, a city-bred sense of honor, which impelled him to selfsacrifice and was out of place here, barred his way to safety.†   (source)
  • If you feel impelled to cast chronographical aspersions…†   (source)
  • Impelled by a violent nervous reaction she went to the kitchen, where he stood in clean clothes, putting away his washing things.†   (source)
  • When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ... that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.   (source)
  • Part of what impelled him was stubbornness; resentment, even.†   (source)
  • Saying this, he felt impelled to reach in his pocket again.†   (source)
  • My determination to act with honor and integrity impels me to work in service to my country.†   (source)
  • He wondered why this was a motive that had no power to impel him.†   (source)
  • During this time—impelled probably by my own loneliness—I became involved in a brief romance with a young tatami maker named Inoue.†   (source)
  • She felt reborn in her heart the rancor that she had felt in other days for Rebeca, and begging God not to impel her into the extreme state of wishing her dead, she banished her from the sewing room.†   (source)
  • …that the time has come: they are off, and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows (among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily, if at all, as individuals) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will: has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea.†   (source)
  • A constitutional convention was in the offing, and as he had been impelled in 1776 to write his Thoughts on Government, so Adams plunged ahead now, books piled about him, his pen scratching away until all hours.†   (source)
  • Years ago, in college, he had been taught that the only effective means to impel men to action was fear.†   (source)
  • "You will see in a few days," he wrote in the second letter, "a Declaration setting forth the causes, which have impelled us to this mighty revolution, and the reasons that will justify it in the sight of God and man."†   (source)
  • She got up, with no purpose in mind, but impelled by some instinct from the past, as if acting in a vacuum where honesty was not relevant any longer, but knowing no other way to act.†   (source)
  • She had sensed the audaciousness, even the brazenness of the letter as she read it; one or the other, or perhaps simple stupidity, had to impel such a communication from an insignificant parish priest to the Commandant of Auschwitz.†   (source)
  • It was filled with trouble, and though I wanted to retreat when I heard it I dared not, feeling something momentous in the air which impelled me on toward the voice and Sophie.†   (source)
  • With anxiety she hesitated, then resumed, spinning out another of her lies, impelled forward like a splinter bobbingly afloat upon a rushing stream of fabrication and falsehood.†   (source)
  • "une merveille," even "big" would do, almost anything but "sweet"—and perhaps it was only my glum silence after this which impelled her to begin to stroke and pump me with a zest that mingled the adroitness of a courtesan and a milkmaid.†   (source)
  • While I had droned in the hive at McGraw-Hill there had been something sick, self-flagellating in my withdrawal from people into a world of fantasy and loneliness; on my own terms it was unnatural, for I am a companionable person most of the time, impelled genuinely enough toward friendship but equally smitten by the same horror of solitude that causes human beings to get married or join the Rotarians.†   (source)
  • Oh, Stingo, how I envy you in those faraway afternoons of First Novelhood (so long before middle age and the drowsy slack tides of inanition, gloomy boredom with fiction, and the pooping-out of ego and ambition) when immortal longings impelled your every hyphen and semicolon and you had the faith of a child in the beauty you felt you were destined to bring forth.†   (source)
  • Here is the horny young bachelor hard at his writing all day, aware only of the pleasant chink-chink of the tools of his peglegged sculptor friend and the smell of chicken and hush puppies frying in the kitchen, his work impelled to even greater flights of exquisite nuance and power by the knowledge, pleasurably roosting at the mind's edge, that the evening will bring friendly relaxation, good food, talk murmurous with down-home Southern nostalgia—all this fragrantly buoyed by the…†   (source)
  • No ideological differences impel me to say this.†   (source)
  • The author tells me that he "felt impelled" to write it.†   (source)
  • He felt half-impelled to take to his heels.†   (source)
  • They are all impelled by some necessity.†   (source)
  • He felt impelled to say something to ease the swelling in his chest.†   (source)
  • He was excited and something was impelling him to become more excited.†   (source)
  • In fact, they felt their approaching separation instinctively: Eliza's life was moving by a half-blind but inevitable gravitation toward the centre of its desire—the exact meaning of her venture she would have been unable to define, but she had a deep conviction that the groping urge which had led her so blindly into death and misery at Saint Louis had now impelled her in the right direction.†   (source)
  • Two Germans, a Russian, an Englishman, and a Swede made the dreaded crossing of the Tian-Shans, impelled by a motive that was to become increasingly common--scientific exploration.†   (source)
  • For some reason I felt impelled to speak, because his eyes followed me in sympathy like the Gentleman Unknown.†   (source)
  • She was off like a bird, bullet, or arrow, impelled by what desire, shot by whom, at what directed, who could say?†   (source)
  • Drawn by the fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet.†   (source)
  • Gripped by the same impelling excitement that had had hold of him when he was carrying Mary up the stairs, he stood in the middle of the room.†   (source)
  • In the seventeenth century a Christian revival was impelled directly from Rome through the agency of those heroic Jesuit missionaries whose journeys, if I may permit myself the remark, are so much more interesting to read of than those of St. Paul.†   (source)
  • You see, he "feels impelled" to write–feels, presumably, that he has something new to say–and yet his words, like cavalry horses answering the bugle, group themselves automatically into the familiar dreary pattern.†   (source)
  • But impelled by some curiosity, driven by the discomfort of the sympathy which she held undischarged, she walked a pace or so to the end of the lawn to see whether, down there on the beach, she could see that little company setting sail.†   (source)
  • There is fear in the hate and impatience which impels the action of the mob congregated upon the streets beyond that window!†   (source)
  • He was impelled toward murder as much through the thirst for excitement, exultation, and elation as he was through fear!†   (source)
  • There are times, Your Honor, when reality bears features of such an impellingly moral complexion that it is impossible to follow the hewn path of expediency.†   (source)
  • As he had felt when he stood over the bed with the white blur floating toward him" as he had felt when he had sat in the car between Jan and Mary" as he had felt when he had seen Gus coming through the door of Doc's poolroom"so he felt now: constricted, taut, in the grip of a powerful, impelling fear.†   (source)
  • I could scarcely catch my breath, so fiercely was I impelled through the heavens.†   (source)
  • The youth, regarding him with sidelong glances, felt impelled to change his purpose.†   (source)
  • Never had Legrandin's snobbishness impelled him to make a habit of visiting a duchess as such.†   (source)
  • Thus the supersensitive couple were more and more impelled to go away.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Newland Archer felt himself impelled to decisive action.†   (source)
  • He was impelled to do them, and did not reason about them at all.†   (source)
  • Then the short door swung outward as if impelled by a vigorous hand.†   (source)
  • He loved the wasp equally, he impelled it likewise, he was imitating God.†   (source)
  • It came as if self-impelled, driving all before it, a perpetual explosion.†   (source)
  • His mother and fear impelled him to keep away from the white wall.†   (source)
  • His cheerfulness was as impelling as his splendid virility.†   (source)
  • For I had come to see a malignant devil in him which impelled him to hate all the world.†   (source)
  • Why he did so he could not say, but something seemed to impel him to the act.†   (source)
  • He paused before the blanket as if he had been impelled to halt from fear.†   (source)
  • Scarcely had he departed when Georgiana felt irresistibly impelled to follow him.†   (source)
  • One felt impelled to ask her, 'What's the matter; are you hungry?†   (source)
  • Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.†   (source)
  • A keen remembrance and keen pity impelled Maggie to put her hand in Philip's.†   (source)
  • So what was it that impelled you to this sentiment of hatred?†   (source)
  • He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets.†   (source)
  • The dense atmosphere acted with great force and impelled us swiftly on.†   (source)
  • One habitual feeling impelled him to get rid of the blame and to pass it on to her.†   (source)
  • It was the certainty of this fact that impelled me to offer the hint.†   (source)
  • They impel her to say, "Snagsby has something on his mind!"†   (source)
  • Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!†   (source)
  • She was impelled to have the argument aloud, which she had been having in her own mind.†   (source)
  • We pushed on, impelled by our burning curiosity.†   (source)
  • One feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud.†   (source)
  • It was his gladness then which impelled him now to be glad that the life was at an end.†   (source)
  • She had rushed thither; impelled by a kind of horror that drove her from her home.†   (source)
  • … But I know nothing about such affairs," something impelled him to add hurriedly.†   (source)
  • It was what I remotely dreaded when I was first impelled to stay away from England.†   (source)
  • Then may his teaching cheerfully impel thee: Dost thou, as man, increase the stores of truth?†   (source)
  • I am impelled to this course by no one, but follow it of my own free will.†   (source)
  • The horses, impelled by fear, flew towards the house.†   (source)
  • My heart is that of a Musketeer; I feel it, monsieur, and that impels me on.†   (source)
  • He asked himself what motive could have impelled Quasimodo to save her.†   (source)
  • Howbeit, impelled by innocence, she asks, "What for?"†   (source)
  • "Reverend sir, I am impelled"— "Every criminal says the same thing."†   (source)
  • He spoke with a terrible impelling earnestness, and the strength of his will almost hypnotized Joan into execution of his demand.†   (source)
  • I cannot prevent your cultivating this acquaintance now that it has been made, if curiosity impels you to do so.†   (source)
  • Though no one had told him not to go in, he had a feeling that it would be wrong to do so; he was a little frightened, and his heart beat uncomfortably; but at the same time something impelled him to turn the handle.†   (source)
  • To the defense of his chief he was the more impelled by the attitude of Irving Watters and such other physicians as attacked Pickerbaugh because they feared that he really would be successful, and reduce their earnings.†   (source)
  • How a convulsive snatching at social salvation might have impelled her to answer him she could not say.†   (source)
  • Helen seemed impelled to follow.†   (source)
  • Brown held both his skinny hands together behind his back in the grip of one vast fist, and now and then impelled him forward with a fierce push.†   (source)
  • —Ay, My heart has clothed itself with witty words, To shroud itself from curious eyes:—impelled At times to aim at a star, I stay my hand, And, fearing ridicule,—cull a wild flower!†   (source)
  • He added that Rogojin was drunk, of course; but that he thought the money would be forthcoming, for the excited and intoxicated rapture of the fellow impelled him to give any interest or premium that was asked of him, and there were several others engaged in beating up the money, also.†   (source)
  • What, under my endless obsession, I had been impelled to listen for was some betrayal of his not being at rest, and I presently caught one, but not in the form I had expected.†   (source)
  • The seclusion of her darkened chamber made possible that betrayal of herself to which she was impelled.†   (source)
  • …garage at the rear, a large fountain to the left of the house as he faced it, in the center of which was a boy holding a swan in his arms, and to the right of the house one lone cast iron stag pursued by some cast iron dogs, he felt especially impelled to admire, and charmed by the dignity of this place, which was a modified form of old English, he now inquired of a stranger who was passing—a middle-aged man of a rather shabby working type, "Whose house is that, mister?" and the man…†   (source)
  • As if impelled Shefford started his horse down the sandy trail, but he checked his former far-reaching gaze.†   (source)
  • A potent force within me, stronger than the persuasion of my friends, stronger even than the pleadings of my heart, had impelled me to try my strength by the standards of those who see and hear.†   (source)
  • If ever he was impelled to cast sin from him and to repent the impulse that moved him was the wish to be her knight.†   (source)
  • Impelled by a nervous fear, he rose and went into the dingy hall, where he counted his remaining money, unseen.†   (source)
  • Why she wished to get closer to him, she could not have said: perhaps she was impelled by an all-powerful fatality, which so often seems to rule the destinies of men.†   (source)
  • Down she dropped again—this time the wheel and its music were slowing and a dozen people were around her car, all of them impelled by the quality of her laughter to smile in sympathetic idiocy.†   (source)
  • Yet she was impelled to look up at him, and even in the shadow of the trees she saw the fire in his eyes.†   (source)
  • But this invention was so perfect that, as I leaned out of the boat, I was impelled less by a desire to discover its trick than to enjoy its charm; and I leaned out, leaned out until I almost overturned the boat.†   (source)
  • She screamed and turned, and then the chair legs came gently but firmly against her back and impelled her and Hall out of the room.†   (source)
  • Carley was impelled to look at his face, and she was amazed to meet the rawest and boldest stare from evil eyes that had ever been her misfortune to incite.†   (source)
  • But the drama culminated unforeseen and violent on their return, when I was impelled by my miserable flesh that still lives…Ah! what misery, what wretchedness is that of the man who is alone and disdains debasing liaisons!†   (source)
  • VI Edna Pontellier could not have told why, wishing to go to the beach with Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second place have followed in obedience to one of the two contradictory impulses which impelled her.†   (source)
  • They embraced softly, impelled by the grey rainy light, the wet silent trees, the shield-like witnessing lake, the swans.†   (source)
  • His gaze seemed impelled and held by things afar—the great yellow-and-purple corrugated world of distance, now on a level with his eyes.†   (source)
  • The slope of the prairie to the water was one solid mass of buffalo, moving as one beast, impelled by motive as wild as the action.†   (source)
  • But my mother did not seem to have noticed anything particularly attractive in that counter at the Trois Quartiers where she had represented to Swann, at the moment in which he caught sight of her, a definite person with whom he had sufficient memories in common to impel him to come up to her and to speak.†   (source)
  • When he did come to seek her, with a purpose which had grown more impelling since August Naab's arrival, he learned to his bewilderment that she avoided him.†   (source)
  • Her face then, with its dead whiteness and the eyes of flame, held a tragic, impelling beauty that stung Anson into remonstrance.†   (source)
  • It impelled the visitor to questions and then the residents would explain, quietly, that all this was "made" land, and that it had been "made" by using it as a dumping ground for the city garbage.†   (source)
  • Chance brought her into his mind while it was in this heated state, he did not select her, she happened to occur among the throng of soliciting images, a tiny splinter, and he impelled her by his spiritual force to that place where completeness can be found.†   (source)
  • But they danced furiously as though impelled by some strange power within them, and it seemed to Philip that they were driven forward by a rage for enjoyment.†   (source)
  • He saw enough in her face to impel him to take her hand and hold it while he said his lingering good night.†   (source)
  • Duane, as if impelled, rose with him.†   (source)
  • If his imaginative conscience or his pride; if all the extravagant ghosts and austere shades that were the disastrous familiars of his youth would not let him run away from the block, I, who of course can't be suspected of such familiars, was irresistibly impelled to go and see his head roll off.†   (source)
  • The thought of going to college took root in my heart and became an earnest desire, which impelled me to enter into competition for a degree with seeing and hearing girls, in the face of the strong opposition of many true and wise friends.†   (source)
  • Impelled by the blows that rained upon him, now from this side, now from that, White Fang swung back and forth like an erratic and jerky pendulum.†   (source)
  • Instinctively she obeyed, sinking back to her bed; and then, irresistibly impelled, she moved to the other side, farther up under the low wagon seat, and peeped out from under it.†   (source)
  • The empty reaches sparkled under the high sun; between the high walls of vegetation the heat drowsed upon the water, and the boat, impelled vigorously, cut her way through the air that seemed to have settled dense and warm under the shelter of lofty trees.†   (source)
  • The one subject most impelling to him—outlaws—he never mentioned; but by talking all around it, sifting the old ranch and cattle story, he acquired a knowledge calculated to aid his plot.†   (source)
  • He strode to the window and looked out a moment, and presently, when he turned toward Bo, he seemed a stronger, loftier, more impelling man, with all his emotions under control.†   (source)
  • A quick impulse that was somewhat spasmodic impelled her fingers to close in a sort of clutch upon his hand.†   (source)
  • "The artist gets a peculiar sensation from something he sees, and is impelled to express it and, he doesn't know why, he can only express his feeling by lines and colours.†   (source)
  • Every instinct of his nature would have impelled him to dash wildly away, had there not suddenly and for the first time arisen in him another and counter instinct.†   (source)
  • Every man must work as he could best work, and in the method towards which he felt impelled by the Spirit.†   (source)
  • There was some kind of power emanating from him, but it was not that which, was so keenly vital and impelling in Kells.†   (source)
  • With long, buoyant swing the boat sailed down, shot over the first waves, was caught and lifted upon the great swell and impelled straight toward the cliff.†   (source)
  • His is the courage of fear,—a strange thing I know well of myself,—and at any moment it may master the fear and impel him to the taking of my life.†   (source)
  • The last line of sheep, pressing close to those gone before, and yet impelled by the strange instinct of life, turned their eyes too late on the brink, carried over by their own momentum.†   (source)
  • It was also serious, for I learned that he was capable of using it, that under all his cowardice there was a courage of cowardice, like mine, that would impel him to do the very thing his whole nature protested against doing and was afraid of doing.†   (source)
  • Hare met the proffered hand with his own, and as he had recoiled from Snap Naab so now he received another shock, different indeed but impelling in its power, instinctive of some great portent.†   (source)
  • Whenever Hayward said something which was illogical, Weeks in a few words would show the falseness of his reasoning, pause for a moment to enjoy his triumph, and then hurry on to another subject as though Christian charity impelled him to spare the vanquished foe.†   (source)
  • She feared to hear, but she must hear, and even if she had not felt it necessary to keep informed of events, the fascination of the game would have impelled her to listen.†   (source)
  • They entered upon the turf, and, impelled by a force that seemed to overrule their will, suddenly stood still, turned, and waited in paralyzed suspense beside the stone.†   (source)
  • She possessed a gentle, caressing tongue that soothed him when it passed over his soft little body, and that impelled him to snuggle close against her and to doze off to sleep.†   (source)
  • This was the world, the universe itself, its bounds so near one felt impelled to reach out both arms and push them back.†   (source)
  • They were white, most of them, ugly in the early morning, and they had an abstracted look; the younger ones walked lightly, as though the cement of the platform were pleasant to tread, but the others went as though impelled by a machine: their faces were set in an anxious frown.†   (source)
  • Every urge of his being impelled him to spring upon the pack that cried at his heels, but it was the will of the gods that this should not be; and behind the will, to enforce it, was the whip of cariboo-gut with its biting thirty-foot lash.†   (source)
  • "I think that he is a better man than you are," I answered, impelled, somehow, with a desire to draw upon myself a portion of the wrath I felt was about to break upon his head.†   (source)
  • Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct.†   (source)
  • I felt myself turning sick in anticipation; and as I looked at the gleam of triumph in Wolf Larsen's eyes, his form swam before me, and I felt almost irresistibly impelled to fling myself upon him.†   (source)
  • I remember the scene impelled me to sudden laughter, and in the next instant I realized I was becoming hysterical myself; for these were women of my own kind, like my mother and sisters, with the fear of death upon them and unwilling to die.†   (source)
  • Maud looked at me, surprised and shocked; but the spirit of something I had seen before was strong upon me, impelling me to give service to Wolf Larsen as Wolf Larsen had once given service to another man.†   (source)
  • Towards this gratification he was impelled, fitfully, every now and then, after having passed weeks in which he had avoided her as the far-off bright-winged prize that only made him spring forward and find his chain all the more galling.†   (source)
  • She stamped her foot, wavered a moment, and then, irresistibly impelled by the naughty spirit within her, slapped me on the cheek: a stinging blow that filled both eyes with water.†   (source)
  • But necessity impelled him, nevertheless, to renew his acquaintance with the worthy servant, as will be seen.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth turned and observed her cousin in his night cap, with his head out of his bedroom window, where his zeal for pre-eminence, in defiance of the weather, had impelled him to thrust it.†   (source)
  • But as it always happened that such reflections impelled me, as though purposely, to put myself into a false position, I went in.†   (source)
  • I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.†   (source)
  • All that is past; we are no longer hurried, and the information lies ready to each one's hand when his own inclinations impel him to seek it.†   (source)
  • The cheek of Mabel did not recover all its bloom until the canoe was again in the current, down which it floated swiftly, occasionally impelled by the paddle of Jasper.†   (source)
  • The idea of their frightening her, and making her cry, and of my not being there to comfort her, was so excruciating, that it impelled me to write a wild letter to Mr. Spenlow, beseeching him not to visit upon her the consequences of my awful destiny.†   (source)
  • But having gone through so much in the morning, he found a sort of relief in a change of sensations, apart from the strong personal feeling which impelled him to defend Sonia.†   (source)
  • While yet some distance from the Pequod, she rounded to, and dropping a boat, her captain was impelled towards us, impatiently standing in the bows instead of the stern.†   (source)
  • So he proceeded, impelled both by this irresistible flood, by fear, and by a vertigo which converted all this into a sort of horrible dream.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Though not a hand had been extended to greet him, nor yet an eye had condescended to watch his movements, he had also entered the lodge, as though impelled by a fate to whose decrees he submitted, seemingly, without a struggle.†   (source)
  • I will go far away, so far that you will never hear of me again; and yet—to-day—I know not what force impelled me towards you.†   (source)
  • I deeply regret the necessity that impels me to suppress any thing of importance connected with my experience in slavery.†   (source)
  • Hester Prynne—slowly, as if impelled by inevitable fate, and against her strongest will—likewise drew near, but paused before she reached him.†   (source)
  • I feel impelled, its meaning to determine,— With honest purpose, once for all, The hallowed Original To change to my beloved German.†   (source)
  • "It is of no use for you to know anything about it," said the young woman, whom an instinctive mistrust now impelled to draw back.†   (source)
  • It is the power which impels the circulation of political life through all the districts of that vast territory.†   (source)
  • As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon her in his turn, perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her, when she was impelled to throw herself upon his breast, and give him the pent-up confidences of her heart.†   (source)
  • The Doctor bestowed a gracious but commiserating smile on the philosopher of nature, as he retrograded a step or two from the place whither he had been impelled by his excess of spirit, in order to reply with less expenditure of breath, and with a greater freedom of air and attitude.†   (source)
  • These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything.†   (source)
  • After making the voyage to that port from London, he found himself so strongly impelled to cut the vessel, that he resolved to walk back again.†   (source)
  • A composite feeling, made up of disgust with the, to him, humdrum tediousness of a farmer's life, gloomy images of her who lay in the churchyard, remorse, and a general averseness to his wife's society, impelled him to seek a home in any place on earth save Weatherbury.†   (source)
  • As he turned his face, Ralph recoiled a step or two, and making as though he were irresistibly impelled to express astonishment, but was determined not to do so, sat down with well-acted confusion.†   (source)
  • Flight, by means of oars, from a bark canoe impelled by vigorous and skilful hands, was utterly impracticable, and each of the men seized his rifle in expectation of a conflict.†   (source)
  • …of the earth a position different from that which they have hither to occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course, We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;…†   (source)
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