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Example sentences for "perforce"

Lexicographically close words:
perforating; perforation; perforations; perforator; perforators; perform; performance; performances; performd; performe
  1. Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.

  2. When Atropos perforce will cut the thred.

  3. Unto God, Unbribed, unpurchased, yearns the soul of man; Yet finds perforce in God its great reward.

  4. Here we perforce shall drag them; and throughout The dismal glade our bodies shall be hung, Each on the wild thorn of his wretched shade.

  5. Yet, after the first impression, his attention was perforce held by Lady Maxwell, and he saw the rest only in relation to her.

  6. He was extremely pale, and those who knew him well, and were perforce observing him at the moment, like Maxwell and Marcella, drew the conclusion that he was in a state of violent though suppressed excitement.

  7. An American philosophy of history must perforce be a philosophy for its future, a future in which freedom and fullness of human companionship is the aim, and intelligent cooperative experimentation the method.

  8. They appropriate as their own personal reason the objective and absolute Reason embodied perforce in law and custom.

  9. They were perforce lacking in directive power except so far as the future might be a routine repetition of the past.

  10. But it grieves me to add, that you must perforce remain within the Tower till the pleasure of her Highness respecting you has been ascertained.

  11. Then your grace must perforce consent," said the Queen.

  12. Come, mistress, now perforce we will enjoy That nice-preserved honesty of yours.

  13. But you frame Things that are known alike, which are not wholesome To those which would not know them, and yet must Perforce be their acquaintance.

  14. We may conveniently distinguish in history, as it is perforce written by men, three distinct elements, which we may call historical investigation, historical theory, and historical romance.

  15. Reason, working on the immediate flux of appearances, reaches these ideal realms and, resting in them, perforce calls them realities.

  16. Tis policy and stratagem must do That you affect; and so must you resolve That what you cannot as you would achieve, You must perforce accomplish as you may.

  17. An ammunition waggon had perforce to be left behind for the moment, but even it was not finally abandoned.

  18. This was the most perilous stage of the combat, for, as our infantry painfully won its way up the last ascent, the British artillery had perforce to cease its fire.

  19. In such matters authority naturally and necessarily goes along with the cure of souls; the priest of the parish must perforce provide for the spiritual needs of his parish.

  20. As none ever did a mean thing to him, one may suspect that the psychology of his sudden enmities towards others was that he must perforce imagine that he had been "horribly" treated.

  21. He therefore chose to work over the imaginings of other writers, and perforce of morbid ones.

  22. Thus it was that Comte Jules soon blossomed into a Duke, and Madame perforce became a Duchess, with a coveted tabouret at Court.

  23. It contains, however, a very large number of short memoirs and documents of all kinds, in which the elaborate farce of 'Vous' is perforce abandoned.

  24. It is in this disorganisation that our history perforce leaves the magnificent literature which we have traced from its source.

  25. Its main characteristics have been indicated by this sketch, except that the extreme beauty and grace of the lavish descriptions which enclose and adorn the somewhat commonplace allegory perforce escape analysis.

  26. To go to Berbera, then, I must perforce pass through the territories of the northern Dulbahantas; and this was fixed upon.

  27. On the other hand, when Secret Service agents are working abroad they must perforce rely upon codes of sorts, for means of intercommunication between themselves, their friends and supporters.

  28. The communities therefore in which the secondary functionaries of the government are elected are perforce obliged to make great use of judicial penalties as a means of administration.

  29. In a narrow doorway, so narrow that perforce we stepped over her, sat a woman with a young babe, nursing at breasts grossly naked and libelling all the sacredness of motherhood.

  30. If they reproduce, the life is so cheap that perforce it perishes of itself.

  31. The owners perforce must put up with less of the nicer things of life, the pickers with less grub, of which, in the best of times, they never get enough.

  32. Come, go: I will fall prostrate at his feet, And never rise until my tears and prayers 115 Have won his Grace to come in person hither, And take perforce my husband from the abbess.

  33. My way is now to his home to his house, And tell his wife that, being lunatic, He rush’d into my house, and took perforce My ring away.

  34. But the marshal kept his haughty and disdainful regard, appearing like a noble nature who perforce companies for the nonce with meaner men.

  35. Sholto perforce released the pressure on her arm.

  36. Speaking of the King," she said, "my uncle the Marshal must perforce ride to Edinburgh to deliver his credentials.

  37. But evening was approaching, and having far to go we had perforce to refuse his hospitality and bid him a reluctant good-by.

  38. This proving indeed the case, I perforce took my leave, and with a midshipman to guide me, presently stepped aboard a boat which bore us back beneath the shadow of that mighty bridge stark against the evening sky.

  39. As in the case of the older monasteries, the houses within reach were at once dissolved, and the rest were perforce respited.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perforce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.