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Examples
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Protean shapes of the ancient, life-compelling mystery?
Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Caesar opened up a pathway for the old civilizations of the world to flow into Western Europe, and the sodden mass of barbarism was infused with a life-compelling current.
A Short History of France Mary Platt Parmele 1877
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For might not the life-compelling tyrant, offended that he should desire to cease, fix him in eternal beholding of his love and his hate folded in one -- to sicken, yet never faint, in aeonian pain, such as life essential only could feel!
There & Back George MacDonald 1864
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