Impelled

• “Impelled" (to use his own words) "by some propitious influence, he fixed in some happy moment upon Edmund”

  English Men of Letters: Crabbe

• “Impelled by a half-feigned fear, she stole away into the kitchen bedroom where Bert had died, to study her face in the bureau mirror.”

  CHAPTER XVIII

• “Impelled by the blows that rained upon him, now from this side, now from that, White Fang swung back and forth like an erratic and jerky pendulum.”

  The Bondage

• “Impelled by curiosity purely boyish, he made up his mind to investigate.”

  Chapter VIII

• “Impelled by the wave of warm emotion that swept over him, he all but rushed in upon the lad.”

  THE PRODIGAL FATHER

• “Impelled by what Charles Taylor has described as the "ethics of inarticulacy," the”

  The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction

• “Impelled by a suspicion that proved to be thoroughly groundless, Mr. Samsa and the two women stepped out on the landing.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories

• “Impelled by a vision of a better world, she developed a system of education based on the principle that people learn best when they use their learning to achieve purposes that improve the world.”

  Audrey Cohen.

• “Impelled by the dangers he saw in the unfettered expansion of economic activity advocated by most economists he used his powers of persuasion in support of ‘steady state economics’ as an alternative to growth economics.”

  Herman Daly Festschrift~ Hicksian income, welfare, and the steady state

• “Impelled by aversion, not altogether unmixed with fear”

  Quentin Durward

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