compell'd

I was last night favour'd with your 'Address to Time', [1] and am compell'd to congratulate you with all my whole heart as a man capable of giving the world pleasure hereafter, when the 'Old Gentleman 'you address shall have plump'd out the ear of corn that seems now so full of milk.

Letter 205 2009

Thus, methinks, I see an End of this miserable Way of living, which always seemed odious to me; but the Shelter it gave me from the foremention'd Pursuit made me undergo it with Patience: For I am not vicious or unworthy in my Nature, having always had a constant Abhorrence of the other, as well as this vile Course; but a fatal Necessity compell'd me to it.

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Thus, methinks, I see an End of this miserable Way of living, which always seemed odious to me; but the Shelter it gave me from the foremention'd Pursuit made me undergo it with Patience: For I am not vicious or unworthy in my Nature, having always had a constant Abhorrence of the other, as well as this vile Course; but a fatal Necessity compell'd me to it.

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

We could not help but learn more the State of Mind of poor Mrs. Clinton, were Persephone to expound upon her Fate of being compell'd to quit the sunlit Eleysian Fields for the dark Realms of the Underworld, all for the sake of her Husband.

Where am I? What am I thinking? Ann Althouse 2008

But withal reflecting how much more agreeable this Resignation would have been to them, had it been before Necessity compell'd me; for without

Exilius 2008

Cambridge, or any where else, I should have had no Notion of being compell'd into any Thing against my Inclination.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774, "This is the second day of the Term..." 1963

But why should I be compell'd to give Reasons for every thing?

The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe

So that if I was compell'd to put this Circumstance of Wrestling into

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

_ No -- not pursued -- I scarce know what I utter -- my friend, my kind protecting friend! who was conducting me through yonder forest, compell'd to leave me by strong urgent circumstance, bade me seek shelter in this holy pile, till one he named could hasten to my relief -- and you'll consent!

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810

I was by This in Generosity compell'd to desist from pursuing him, yet every now and then I took upon me to reprimand him, when

The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe