For what was to impel it to seek for these better proofs?
Attend thy voyage, and impel thy sails; But if thy impious hands the flocks destroy, The gods, the gods avenge it, and ye die!
Somewhere ahead lie the further great changes that will eventually impel acceptance of the principle of world government itself.
That yet greater suffering and disillusionment will be required to impel humanity to this great leap forward appears, alas, equally clear.
You alone, Madam, had the power to conquer my indolence, and to impel me to change my resolution.
The goodness of your heart, the sweetness of your disposition, and the beneficence which displays itself in all your conduct, are all so great that even religion does not impel you to any dangerous excesses.
Resist that inclination which seems to impel you to gloomy meditation, solitude, and melancholy.
One must be very light in order to impel one's will to knowledge to such a distance, and as it were beyond one's age, in order to create eyes for oneself for the survey of millenniums, and a pure heaven in these eyes besides!
Not only the calm dictates of reason, and the force of natural affection, but the integrity of manly pride, would impel men to spurn such proposals.
For what purpose is that knowledge of the scriptures which does not impel one to deeds of righteousness?
One cannot but wonder whether, in offering his prayers that morning, David had any presentiment of the trial that awaited him, anything to impel him to unwonted fervour in asking God that day to establish the works of his hands upon him.
Just as Borlase saw her she raised her hand to impel silence and inclined her head to listen.
It struck her as possible that if Mr. Severn knew all he might some day spurn her; revulsion of feeling might impel him to it.
The motives that impel people to this country now, are very different from what they used to be.
Act as your charity and your devotion impel you to do; fulfil your duty without troubling yourself about me; God has willed it that we should come across this man.
In a few minutes their sail would be spread before a breeze, that would impel their boat at a rapid rate through the water; and in a short time they would see no more of the Catamaran, crawling slowly after them.
That which we became aware of in this connection will become even more clear to us, and impel us to seek for new aims, if we now concentrate our attention upon the process of life and follow it throughout its experiences.
We have become defenceless in face of the impressions of the environment which affect us with increasing force, and impel us now in one direction, now in another.
The appearance of a foreign army on their soil might impel them to rally even round a King whom they had no reason to love.
The oppressions which he had undergone had not been such as to impel him to any desperate resolution.
The human mind is a very fragile mechanism, and the marionettes which dance upon the stage of history are rarely able to resist the imperious forces which impel them.
When any religious or political faith whatsoever has triumphed, not only is reason powerless to affect it, but it even finds motives which impel it to interpret and so justify the faith in question, and to strive to impose it upon others.
Anger may impel to punish and not be malicious, if its reason for punishment is the passionless impulse of justice or the reformation of the wrong-doer.
Self-love may impel to His feet; but Christ-love should be the moving spring of life thereafter.
Is he indeed a man to be prized, who, in good and in evil, Takes no thought but for self, and gladness and sorrow with others Knows not how to divide, nor feels his heart so impel him?
Wherewith Cigarette tossed the spider into the air, with all the supreme disdain she could impel into that gesture.
To impel the water with the oars contrary to the usual mode, or towards the head of the boat, so that she shall recede.
Thinking is indeed nothing but the equivalent of the hallucinatory wish; and if the dream be called a wish-fulfillment this becomes self-evident, as nothing but a wish can impel our psychic apparatus to activity.
Don't let your American 'push' impel you into swamps and quicksands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
