All 10 Uses
impel
in
Sea Wolf
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- 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.†
Chpt 1
- I could scarcely catch my breath, so fiercely was I impelled through the heavens.†
Chpt 2 *
- 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.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
Chpt 11
- "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.†
Chpt 12
- For I had come to see a malignant devil in him which impelled him to hate all the world.†
Chpt 13
- Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct.†
Chpt 16
- 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.†
Chpt 18
- This was the world, the universe itself, its bounds so near one felt impelled to reach out both arms and push them back.†
Chpt 25
- 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.†
Chpt 39
Definitions:
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(1)
(impel) to make someone feel they must do something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)