All 24 Uses of
compel
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Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne trnsl by G&F - 44 chptrs
- Worse, he would compel me to accompany him, and we should be lost forever.†
Chpt 3
- On the other hand, if he did attempt anything so quixotic, I should not be compelled to accompany him.†
Chpt 3 *
- We were therefore compelled to defer the pleasure of being presented to him.†
Chpt 6
- The men appeared robust but heavy; fair-haired like Germans, but of pensive mien—exiles of a higher scale in the ladder of humanity than the Eskimos, but, I thought, much more unhappy, since with superior perceptions they are compelled to live within the limits of the Polar Circle.†
Chpt 6
- Yes, yes, all is clear, I see the link in the chain; everything is explained, and I now understand why Arne Saknussemm, put out of court, forced to hide his magnificent discoveries, was compelled to conceal beneath the veil of an incomprehensible cryptograph, the secret—†
Chpt 7
- Three hours later, still traveling over those apparently interminable and sandy prairies, we were compelled to go round the Kollafjord, an easier and shorter cut than crossing the gulfs.†
Chpt 9
- We were compelled to cross several little fjords, and at last came to a real gulf.†
Chpt 10
- That evening, after fording the Alfa and the Heta, two rivers rich in trout and pike, we were compelled to pass the night in a deserted house, worthy of being haunted by all the fays of Scandinavian mythology.†
Chpt 10
- But my uncle, who did not require rest, had no idea of anything of the kind; and despite the fact that next day was Sunday, I was compelled once more to mount my steed.†
Chpt 10
- The Professor was therefore compelled to wait the good pleasure of his imperturbable guide, who did not give the signal for departure for a good hour.†
Chpt 12
- In certain places the sides of this stupendous mountain were at an angle so steep that it was impossible to climb upwards, and we were compelled to get round these obstacles as best we might.†
Chpt 12
- Travelers who bury themselves in the wilds and depths of the African desert, who seek profit and pleasure in the forests of the New World, are compelled to take it in turn to watch during the hours of sleep; but in this region of the earth absolute solitude and complete security reigned supreme.†
Chpt 16
- CHAPTER 17 DEEPER AND DEEPER—THE COAL MINE In truth, we were compelled to put ourselves upon rations.†
Chpt 17
- He must have been in expectation of one of two things; either that a vertical well was about to open under his feet, and thus allow him to continue his descent, or that some insurmountable obstacle would compel us to stop and go back by the road we had so long traveled.†
Chpt 17
- If the worst had come to the worst, we could have compelled him to return to the summit of Sneffels.†
Chpt 18
- I contended heroically against the terrible tortures I endured, because I did not wish to compel my uncle to halt.†
Chpt 19
- We were compelled every quarter of an hour or thereabouts to sit down in order to rest our legs.†
Chpt 21
- My eyes, wholly unused to the effulgence of light, could not bear the sudden brightness; and I was compelled to close them.†
Chpt 27
- Nevertheless, I am compelled to confess that until now we have been most remarkably fortunate, and that this voyage is being accomplished in most favorable conditions of temperature; but it appears evident, in fact, certain, that we shall sooner or later arrive at one of those regions where the central heat will reach its utmost limits, and will go far beyond all the possible gradations of thermometers.†
Chpt 31
- I am compelled to hold onto the mast, which bends like a reed beneath the violence of the storm, to which none ever before seen by mariners bore any resemblance.†
Chpt 32
- "Well, if we were compelled to fix the exact spot," said my uncle, "it might be difficult, since during the three days of that awful tempest I could keep no account either of the quickness of our pace, or of the direction in which the raft was going.†
Chpt 33
- But whatever might have been my wish, I was compelled to yield to the weight of ocular demonstration.†
Chpt 36
- On several occasions the rocks ran far out into deep water and we were compelled to make a long round.†
Chpt 38
- We are compelled to breathe just as it does.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(compel) to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do something