Impelled

AFTER a long interval, I am again impelled by the restless spirit within me to continue my narration; but I must alter the mode which I have hitherto adopted. ❋ Unknown (1826)

Yet, when she rose from the table, an urgent desire to keep him within call impelled her to pause. ❋ Unknown (1910)

On the contrary, the individualising animus which there found expression impelled him to raise more formidable barriers about man, and to turn the ring-fence which secured him from intrusion into a high wall which cut off his view. ❋ Herford, C H (1905)

My situation here is indeed a delightful situation; but I feel what I have lost -- feel it deeply -- it recurs more often and more painfully than I had anticipated, indeed so much so, that I scarcely ever feel myself impelled, that is to say, pleasurably impelled to write to Poole. ❋ Joseph Cottle (1811)

But where Swedenborg uses a vaguely deterministic vocabulary to speak of creaturely activity (stating that bees and silkworms are "impelled" to behave in certain ways), Blake's Oothoon chooses to speak of such activity in terms of multiplicitous "joys" and "loves" (3: 6, 8, 11-12), terms carrying connotations of freedom rather than coercion or enslavement. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The Axioms of Religion, who insisted truly born-again believers are "impelled" to be part of the church. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A vessel of considerably greater size than this, but of the same class -- impelled, that is, by one bank of oars only -- is indicated by certain coins, which have been regarded by some critics as Phoenician, by others as belonging to Cilicia. [ ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

My situation here is indeed a delightful situation; but I feel what I have lost ” feel it deeply ” it recurs more often and more painfully than I had anticipated, indeed so much so, that I scarcely ever feel myself impelled, that is to say, pleasurably impelled to write to Poole. ❋ Cottle, Joseph (1847)

They have achieved before marriage what the love-impelled man and woman must achieve after marriage if they would continue to live together; that is, they have sought and found compatibility before binding themselves, instead of binding themselves first and then seeking if there be compatibility or not. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the devil of speech behind which Dick hid his secret thoughts impelled him to urge the talk wider and wilder. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Later he may return, sans goods, chattels, doors, and windows, impelled by insatiable curiosity for a "look see." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Each love act is a hazarding of the individual's life; this we know, and it is only impelled to perform such acts because of the madness of the trick, which, though it stiikes at the particular life, makes for the general life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But asleep, or singing with Steward, he sensed and yearned for the lost pack and was impelled to seek the forgotten way to it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are lots of reasons for that: an aging population, market inefficiencies (because near-universal third-party payment makes consumers indifferent to price), an excess of “defensive medicine” impelled by the threat of malpractice suits, the decreasing attractiveness of careers in the medical profession, the inescapable fact that the most effective medical treatments often require the greatest expenditure of human, technological and intellectual resources. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Would anybody at Google feel impelled to bow to Christian orthography by capitalizing pronouns that refer to Jesus Christ? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I Normally do not post in Blogs but your blog impelled me to, awesome work .. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nor do I feel impelled to leave her presence if I would live, as did Dante the presence of Beatrice; nor the painful confusion of Rousseau, when, in the same room with Madame Goton, he seemed impelled to leap into the flaming fireplace. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Did you [hear] [steph] [today]? She was Impellative” ❋ Okurrking (2020)

John used his [deluca impeller] [to suck] up all the fluids that [Bill] had to give. ❋ Tonka Wood Chuck (2021)

[I should] 420 impeller ❋ Darkrai Hoopa (2017)

You know [you're in] [trouble] [when the] fecal matter hits the rotary impeller. ❋ Arioch1723 (2006)