impelled

• While Michael Angelo was painting the Sistine Chapel he would not allow himself time for meals or to dress or undress; but he kept bread within reach that he might eat when hunger impelled, and he slept in his clothes A rich man asked Howard Burnett to do a little thing for his album. —  Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
• I feel impelled, at the present stage of the evolution of the Bahá’í Revelation, to state candidly and without any reservation, whatever I regard may tend to insure the preservation of the integrity of the nascent institutions of the Faith. —  The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh
• Because of this the Guardian felt impelled, after reading your Assembly’s letter, to transmit by cable the sum of two hundred pounds sterling to be set aside by your Assembly as the nucleus of a special fund to be established for the specific purpose of furthering the all-India teaching campaign of the Six-Year Plan. —  Dawn of a New Day
• Then he called Ken back as if impelled, and whispered to him in a husky voice: "It's been tough for you and for me. —  The Young Pitcher
• Mysteriously impelled, he goes to the sea coast, and there finds a frail, empty wherry awaiting him. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

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