But she gazed upon the wide blue eyes and rose-white skin of this woman that advanced to meet her, and she measured her with woman's eyes looking through man's eyes; and as a man compeller she felt herself diminish and grow insignificant before this radiant and flashing creature. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Introducing the conflict early I think is a huge compeller and then reminding the reader periodically. ❋ Becca (2007)
'My child,' protested Zeus, the cloud-compeller, 'what sharp judgements you let slip between your teeth …' ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
Whom the gods the supreme skull-compeller have named. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
"They - had - a compeller - on us -" He got out each word as if to form it with his savaged lips was a fearsome task. ❋ Norton, Andre (1968)
If the compeller had affected the mutant, he did not show it. ❋ Norton, Andre (1968)
Well, you enter into agreement with the compeller of horses, alias ❋ Various (N/A)
The old master, Love, the compeller of so many heroisms and so many crimes, from Eve and Helen to Manon ❋ William Douw Lighthall (N/A)
A more dangerous tool in the hands of an unscrupulous evidence-compeller, being at once intelligent, cunning and pliant, than the child proved herself, it would not have been easy to have discovered. ❋ Thomas Potts (N/A)
On the other hand, those who appreciated his genius called him "a cloud-compeller of the world of music." ❋ W. F. Markwick (N/A)
"I brought my truth-compeller with me -- a little, patent, electrical hypnotic arrangement, in the shape of this ring" -- he showed it as he spoke. ❋ Various (N/A)
How often has he placed guards to prevent you from entering? while you, with night for your accomplice, lust for your encourager, and wages for your compeller, were let down through the roof. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
Professor Morse sets up his telegraph, and mightier than Jupiter, the cloud-compeller, with the lightnings of Heaven flashes intelligence from ❋ Various (N/A)
Then the son of Saturn, compeller of the ocean deep, uttered thus: 'It is wholly right, O Cytherean, that thy trust should be in my realm, whence thou drawest birth; and I have deserved it: often have I allayed the rage and full fury of sky and sea. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
But for all his incalculable indebtednesses, Wagner is the great initiator, the compeller of the modern period. ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)
His clear eye and clear face showed to his comrades-in-arms that he was mentally at his best; his energy and enterprise extending to the officers and diffused through the rank and file, the impetus communicated to the operations, the marvellous change from the régime of Rosecrans at once gave evidence that a compeller of men, like Cæsar and Napoleon, like Robert E. Lee, was at the head of affairs. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Manifestly superior as had been Daviss advantages in family, breeding, training and experience, he fell far below Lincoln as a compeller of men. ❋ Unknown (1917)
In that cloud of witnessing women are not merely the women who inspired the tumultuous passions that create a "Tristan und Isolde" or a Chopin "Fantaisie," but sometimes it is a devoted sister like Fanny Mendelssohn, or a tender mother like the mother of Richard Wagner, to whom we find the great sound-compeller writing indeed, as he himself says, like a lover to a sweetheart: ❋ Unknown (1916)
He was evidently a true cloud-compeller, this horrible George. ❋ Unknown (1915)
But when the cloud-compeller, her bolts laid aside, resorted to tears, mutinous humanity had a right to feel aggrieved, and placed in a false and difficult position. ❋ Unknown (1915)
