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  • Then said she, “An thou wilt have it so, O our lord, it will be privier and better in my place than in thine, for here are slave-girls and eunuchs and goers-in and comers-out, and indeed I am a woman who wotteth naught of this fashion; but need compelleth.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And the leader of the company compelleth the company to fly aright, crying as it were blaming with his voice.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Faith and of the World and compelleth his folk to follow the Divine

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The Cow: “compelleth” in the sense of “burdeneth.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And the leader of the company compelleth the company to fly aright, crying as it were blaming with his voice.

    Still an MA WMAM. 2008

  • And every one that compelleth thee to go with him a mile, follow him two.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • If ever a breath hath come to me of the creative breath, and of the heavenly necessity which compelleth even chances to dance star – dances:

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • We say not that God by his power compelleth men to persevere; that is, maketh them do it whether they will or no.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Surely the same is the onely cause that compelleth me (in makinge my selfe bolde) to forget my dutie towardes my parentes, and specially mine honour, which I shall leaue to be reasoned vpon by the ignoraunt which considereth nothing but that which is exteriourly offred to the viewe of the sighte.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • The thing and the time compelleth me to make description of the places, and especially of the den where the theeves did inhabit, I will prove my wit in what I can doe, and the consider you whether I was an Asse in judgement and sence, or no.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

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