All 27 Uses of
compel
in
Sea Wolf
- The cabin was small, to begin with, and to move around, as I was compelled to, was not made easier by the schooner's violent pitching and wallowing.†
Chpt 4 *
- The other hunter, Latimer, a lean, Yankee-looking fellow with shrewd, narrow-slitted eyes, held otherwise, held that the seal pup was born on the land for no other reason than that it could not swim, that its mother was compelled to teach it to swim as birds were compelled to teach their nestlings how to fly.†
Chpt 4
- The other hunter, Latimer, a lean, Yankee-looking fellow with shrewd, narrow-slitted eyes, held otherwise, held that the seal pup was born on the land for no other reason than that it could not swim, that its mother was compelled to teach it to swim as birds were compelled to teach their nestlings how to fly.†
Chpt 4
- I am compelled to Mister him and to Sir him with every speech.†
Chpt 6
- The filth of his cooking was indescribable; and, as he cooked everything that was eaten aboard, I was compelled to select what I ate with great circumspection, choosing from the least dirty of his concoctions.†
Chpt 6
- Not that I—a confirmed and, as Furuseth phrased it, a temperamental idealist—was to be compelled; but that Wolf Larsen stormed the last strongholds of my faith with a vigour that received respect, while not accorded conviction.†
Chpt 8
- At times I thought of throwing myself on the mercy of Wolf Larsen, but the vision of the mocking devil in his eyes that questioned life and sneered at it would come strong upon me and compel me to refrain.†
Chpt 9
- But the beast in the mate was up and rampant, and Wolf Larsen was compelled to brush him away with a back-handed sweep of the arm, gentle enough, apparently, but which hurled Johansen back like a cork, driving his head against the wall with a crash.†
Chpt 12
- This time, having missed the boat, and not being in the same position as in the previous instances, Wolf Larsen was compelled to resort to a different manoeuvre.†
Chpt 17
- Mugridge, who, during all the time he had been compelled to cook and serve coffee and keep the fire going, had complained of internal pains, now swore that he had a broken rib or two.†
Chpt 17
- But Wolf Larsen, as was to be expected, being a boat short, took possession of the first stray one and compelled its men to hunt with the Ghost, not permitting them to return to their own schooner when we sighted it.†
Chpt 18
- As a critic I was compelled to place you.†
Chpt 20
- "You will understand," I took advantage of the opportunity to say, "whatever part I take in what is going on and what is to come, that I am compelled to take it—if you and I are ever to get out of this scrape with our lives."†
Chpt 25
- I was compelled to let go the sheet while I helped her to the nest of blankets and chafed her hands and arms.†
Chpt 27
- In three hours—it was midnight, I well remember, and as dark as I had ever seen it on the sea—the wind, still blowing out of the south-west, rose furiously, and once again I was compelled to set the sea-anchor.†
Chpt 28
- I strove to compel myself to think we would make the landing safely, and so I spoke, not what I believed, but what I preferred to believe.†
Chpt 28
- There were seals all about us in the water, and the bellowing thousands on the beach compelled us to shout at each other to make ourselves heard.†
Chpt 30
- I waited, smiling inwardly at the woman of her which compelled a solicitude for Wolf Larsen, of all creatures.†
Chpt 33
- And we had been compelled to row, in a dead calm, practically every inch of the way.†
Chpt 36
- As soon as she put it on a flattering personal basis, generosity compelled me to deny her.†
Chpt 36
- Then I compelled her to stand up, and though she would have fallen had I not supported her, I forced her to walk back and forth the several steps between the thwart and the stern-sheets, and finally to spring up and down.†
Chpt 36
- She was agreed that the most rigorous treatment was necessary if we were to escape, though she recoiled at the suggestion that I might some time be compelled to take his life to save my own—"our own," she put it.†
Chpt 36
- Had the windlass been in order it would not have been so difficult; as it was, I was compelled to apply all my weight and strength to every inch of the heaving.†
Chpt 36
- He smiled his twisted smile, and Maud, her eyes wide with horror, was compelled to turn away her head.†
Chpt 37
- It was so thick in the confined space that I was compelled to feel my way; and so potent was the spell of Wolf Larsen on my imagination, I was quite prepared for the helpless giant to grip my neck in a strangle hold.†
Chpt 37
- I was compelled to repeat my question loudly before he answered: "Not all the time."†
Chpt 38
- So sleepily helpless was I that she was compelled to hold me in my chair to prevent my being flung to the floor by the violent pitching of the schooner.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(compel) to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do something