Impelled

Examples

• Perhaps like the rest of us they are impelled by forces they are not eager to examine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She was impelled to have the argument aloud, which she had been having in her own mind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My rage was without bounds; I sprang on him, impelled by all the feelings which can arm one being against the existence of another. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In stipulating for it, he had been impelled by a feeling little short of desperation, and the feeling abided by him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• After making the voyage to that port from London, he found himself so strongly impelled to cut the vessel, that he resolved to walk back again. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This dilated until it filled the room, and impelled me to take a candle and go in and look at my dreadful burden. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My schooling first impelled her towards books; and, if music had been the food of sorrow, the productions of the wise became its medicine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You, with your practices of infamous foreign prisons and galleys would make it the money that impelled me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Thus encouraged, the matron drew near to the brink; and even Mr. Bumble himself, impelled by curiousity, ventured to do the same. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was what I remotely dreaded when I was first impelled to stay away from England. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Suddenly Newland Archer felt himself impelled to decisive action. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Howbeit, impelled by innocence, she asks, What for? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He had really a movement of anger against her at that moment, and it impelled him to go away without pause. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was his gladness then which impelled him now to be glad that the life was at an end. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The screw projected at the stern, and being turned rapidly round by the steam engine, the oblique action of the thread of the screw against the water impelled the vessel forward. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They were all drawn towards the house-door by some irresistible impulse; impelled thither--not by a poor curiosity, but as if by some solemn blast. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• So sensible of this, beforehand, that I had really felt ashamed of doing what I was nevertheless impelled to do, I went back to the inn. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The ex-queen, a princess of the house of Austria, had long impelled her husband to withstand the necessity of the times. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was impelled to proclaim his doctrine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Meanwhile, their boat, impelled by the rowers with the energy of despair, had rounded the breakwater, and was rapidly sweeping inward to the land. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I feel impelled to confess it to YOU! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was the certainty of this fact that impelled me to offer the hint. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was evident to me that he thought he might bring trouble to the roof he was under, and that that was the motive which impelled him to go. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Edited by Johanna