Both Uses of
impel
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- 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.†
Chpt 5.4 *
- To the decisive question as to what motive impelled him to the murder and the robbery, he answered very clearly with the coarsest frankness that the cause was his miserable position, his poverty and helplessness, and his desire to provide for his first steps in life by the help of the three thousand roubles he had reckoned on finding.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
to make someone feel they must do something