The enemy's cavalry was also busy in our rear, compelling us to detach cavalry all the way back as far as Resaca, and to strengthen all the infantry posts as far as Nashville.
This had the effect of compelling the Louisiana State Lottery to move its quarters to Honduras, in which place it still exists, selling its bonds to a considerable extent in the Southern States.
Archbishop Theodore promulgated a canon, inhibiting bishops from compelling abbots to attend councils.
It was the compelling drollery of those comedy hands.
And that compellingclang of the temple bell was in his ears.
He never saw it but Khojee's kind wrinkled face, and her appeal for old Khojee, ugly Khojee, came back to his mind with a curious compelling force.
I mean, as I was saying, that arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tangible objects into the argument.
That is a small matter; the use of geometry, to which I refer, is the assistance given by it in the contemplation of the idea of good, and the compelling the mind to look at true being, and not at generation only.
Deep down in him that strange something was at work again, compelling him to believe Yellow Bird.
Something compelling in her grief hushed every voice, and the craven husband at her side shivered as her glance fell upon him once more.
But under the steady, compelling eyes of Charles he moved forward to the table, and accepted the quill the clerk was proffering.
An attorney cannot be thus compelled to answer matters which would amount to an indictable offence; for that would be compelling him to criminate himself.
Its exorbitant rents rob him of the schooling that is his one chance to elude its grasp, by compelling his enrolment in the army of wage-earners before he has learned to read.
Prohibition of child labor without compelling the attendance at school of the freed slaves is a mockery.
Don Sancho became king both of Gallicia and Leon, confining his brother Garcia in irons as if he had been a traitor, and compelling Alfonso to seek for brotherly affection among the Moors.
By the ancient constitution, as we saw in the last chapter, the King had the power of compelling his vassals to be knighted.
The sun struck down with intense heat on the dock, compelling the crew to seek such shade as the bulwarks or sails afforded.
We must make you fast where you are," whispered Hadow, compelling Humphry to sit down on the cross-trees, and lashing him to the rigging.
A suspicion thereupon suggests itself; and the facts are so compelling that the suspicion is almost equal to a certainty.
Bitter through her utter disillusionment, swept by a fire as compelling as that against which Bruce Dunvegan battled, she cared not how high ran the tide of feeling.
One company's desires were ascompelling as the other's.
It was a compelling form of speech, and yet, withal, hardly ever harsh or even peremptory.
He secured the most of his mother's attention, partly because of his ability and will to thrust himself to the fore at all times, and partly, it may be, by compelling her prideful admiration.
Senate, writes the Secretary on the subject of compelling those who have hired substitutes now to serve themselves, and he advocates it.
Meanwhile our militiamen harassed the first column of the enemy, compelling it, by street-fighting, to form up in the little squares of Santo Domingo and of the parish church.
He found exhilaration in the effort of climbing, gradually conquering the great mountains andcompelling them to give up their treasures.
Perhaps this abused spiritualism may yet become the instrumentality of compelling people to walk uprightly in their dealings with their fellowmen.
Doubtless this is permitted as a forcible and compelling offset to the tremendous and increasing materialism of the day.
With a motion imperious and compelling she pushed aside the men and women in the circle.
In the same way steps may be taken to preserve the estate of the husband, "so that it may be forthcoming to meet any decree," evencompelling him to give security to abide by the decision.
Hence it is, in general, misleading to regard the cause as compelling the effect.
The victim squirmed and wriggled and twisted and would have broken away but for the Kid's compelling eye.
His glance was direct and compelling and his smile invited confidences; he seemed almost too young and entirely too artless for his surroundings.
The direct and compelling gaze is an absolute necessity in the touting business because the average man believes that the liar will be unable to look him in the eye.
Perhaps he was conscious of her gaze and found it a compelling one, for again and again he turned round to look at the sisters, and always Bessie's eyes caught and held his.
The two dined alone, as was usual of late, the delicate health of Lady Forcus compelling her often to keep her room.
The blue eyes looked straight into hers with a compelling gaze; a gleam of comprehension seemed to lurk in their depths.
She turned back, to meet once more the compelling glance, and see the hand stretched out to help her.
If the persons examined continued obstinate, they seated them in constrained and uneasy attitudes, occasionally binding them with cords, and compelling them to remain so without food or sleep for twenty-four hours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
