Compels

Examples

• Excuse me, he continued: necessity compels me to make you useful. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Mechanical inventions suggest a change: a dispossessed class compels it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• By means of this method one high-class clock, usually in an astronomical observatory, compels a number of other clocks at considerable distances to keep time with it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In a rough way and with many exceptions, democracy compels law to approximate human need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Ay, answered Isaac, but if the tyrant lays hold on them as he did to-day, and compels me to smile while he is robbing me? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• To this question a strict regard for truth compels the answer that they have not been benefited at all, not to the extent of a single dollar, so far as cash damages are concerned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Those again who are forced, are those whom the violence of some pain or grief compels to change their opinion. Plato. The Republic.
• A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But truth compels me to acknowledge that, in respect of readiness of mind, he was a wonderful man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• For every one, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato. The Republic.
• Then if geometry compels us to view being, it concerns us; if becoming only, it does not concern us? Plato. The Republic.
• The mechanical construction of the battery, as a whole, in its present form, compels instant admiration on account of its beauty and completeness. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Truth compels one to say, no. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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