It was the moment when voices soften, and every heart, overpowered with yearning, is impelled to tell of grief and disillusion; and every moment the wail of the fiddles grew more unbearable, tearing the heart to its very depths.
It was a sense of strict duty that impelled the question, for her heart sank at the prospect of spending the evening alone with the girl.
She diligently applied herself to the various branches of science, and to the study of ancient and modern letters and the arts, being impelled by a strong desire for knowledge.
I had struck fiercely, impelled by the instinct to save myself, but I had had no desire to take the man's life.
Impelled by a desire to see what was continuing to take place without, I stole silently across the soft carpet, and peered forth.
Impelled by a curiosity which could not be resisted I wheeled my horse and rode up the gravelled driveway to Judge Moran's door, but to my vigorous knocking there was no response.
I asked, impelled by a curiosity which could no longer be restrained.
Already I knew that some feeling--either of friendship or sympathy--had impelled her to save me from immediate betrayal, but would she go even further?
But with the girl standing silently in the shadow of the curtains, her eyes occasionally meeting mine, I felt a constant restraint which impelled me to answer almost in mono-syllables.
The eagerness of his thought impelled him to repetitions and emphasis.
Till midway in the afternoon John walked about the streets of Islington, Highbury, Hoxton, Clerkenwell, impelled by the unreasoning hope that he might see Clara, but also because he could not rest in any place.
That Sidney would be impelled to such a decision as this she had never imagined.
Jane's eagerness impelled her to address one of them.
Elementary considerations of prudence impelled him to publish his treasure-trove with all expedition, and not disclose his design prematurely to one who might possibly take steps to hinder its fulfilment.
It was the exacting conventions of the sonnetteering contagion, and not his personal experiences or emotions, that impelled Shakespeare to give 'the dark lady' of his sonnets a poetic being.
It impelled him to do unsought everything which lay in his power for the success of those in whom he felt interest.
They were impelled by the violence of feelings which could find no other vent.
Wagner in the first sketch of his life, (1842) relates that for a long time he dwelt upon this utterance of his step-father; and that it impelled him to aspire to greatness.
It may have been coincidence, or it may have been that species of visual hypnotism known to us all, which suddenly impelled Madame Rosalie's escort to turn in his seat.
Resourcefulness, the key-note of his character, impelled him always to seek relief in action.
Every care-ridden person in the world has felt the impulse, has been impelled to it by the realization that there is safety in remoteness.
Impelled by his entry into the room upstairs to try the front door, he turned the knob.
The pain in his leg returned with almost overwhelming force when he attempted to walk, but a sharp-edged appetite impelled him to seek the pantry.
Forbes, impelledby some mad impulse, pointed his revolver at the angry lioness, but Guy grasped his arm before he could pull the trigger.
Trespassing one moonlight night in a cucumber field, he feels impelled to sing, and answers the objections of his friend the jackal by a lecture on the charms of music.
All references to navigation point only to the crossing of rivers in boats impelled by oars, the main object being to reach the other bank (para).
Clothing himself in waters, he rushes around the vat, impelledby the singers.
For its ancient editors were undoubtedlyimpelled by the motive of guarding this heritage of olden time from change and destruction.
The incipient campaign of the war was peculiarly regulated and determined by the paramount aims which had impelled the respective parties to arms.
An imperative necessity impelledthe Federal administration to the most powerful efforts.
The approaching expiration of the terms of service of large numbers of his veteran troops, also impelled the enemy to early activity.
Almost without thinking, rather as if impelledby some inward prompter, I stealthily followed the figure.
No precaution was taken to keep me within; but the frenzy that had previously impelled me to self-destruction had subsided, and I shuddered at what a few moments before appeared to me to be a source of relief.
The sharp bursting of shells over our heads impelled us to look up, and there directly above us was a German aeroplane.
Some innate chivalry impelled Tim to step across and offer his assistance to the fair one in distress.
It cannot be denied that hers were the mind and the will which impelled her husband along this fatal road; but he fell in gladly with her suggestions, and he was almost as eager as she for help from any quarter.
For a moment he breathed again; but he was impelled to carry his search farther.
It was one of those social self-sacrifices, as common now as then, in which the victim goes self-impelled to the altar, and lays upon its consuming fires the richest dower of womanhood.
Squire Floyd has removed from the poor tenement lately the home of his depressed family, and is back in the pleasant homestead he abandoned years ago, when pride and ambition impelled him to put on a grander exterior.
Porringer stared, but fell in with the humor of his companion, and the shallop, impelled by strong arms, shot into the creek and along its mazy windings with the swiftness of a bird.
The old butler shot from out the crowd, as though impelled from a catapult.
Still I have had a pride in my physical ability, which has sometimes impelled me when better motives ought to have operated.
Then, when wind and tide have been against me on my return, have I, with my simple sculls alone, caused my faithful bark to leap through the foaming brine as though a press of canvass had impelled her on.
Perhaps it was to the latter circumstance I owed my safety, for a single doubt of my security might have impelled a movement that would not have failed to have precipitated me into the yawning gulf below.
A violent exertion of every muscle now impelled me upward, until at length I had so far succeeded as to introduce my head and shoulders through the aperture; after which my final success was no longer doubtful.
Religion could not hallow a purer feeling than that which had impelled the action of the young officer.
Gratitude, not passion, had called it forth; and had Madeline de Haldimar been near at the moment, the feeling that had impelled the seeming infidelity to herself would have been regarded as an additional claim on her affection.
Impelled by his weight, and the violence of his action, the creaking pine gave way; its lofty top gradually bending over the exterior rampart until it finally snapped asunder, and fell with a loud crash across the ditch.
Further, the more a man is impelled to sin, the less grievous his sin, as is clear with regard to a man who is thrown headlong into sin by a more impetuous passion.
Now he that sins through certain malice, is impelled by habit, the impulse of which is stronger than that of passion.
I was too short-sighted to distinguish; so I started downwards again, impelled by curiosity and a vague feeling that I knew what was coming, to find a point of vantage whence I could see clearly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impelled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animated; inclined; minded; motivated; moved; stimulated
