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  • Let us suppose the loved one is as madly im - pelled toward the lover.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which com - pelled our respect.

    Sole Music 2010

  • I had to go to Google to get it and even then I had to put the word court in front of the mis-pelled version to get Google to give me the right one

    Court Rules Bloggers Protected From Others Libel 2007

  • After about 10 minutes in boiling water, the Zongzi are ready and, like unwrapping Christmas presents, the bamboo leaves are pelled off and the insides are devoured.

    Dragon Boat Festival 2008 端午 Phil Razem 2008

  • Moldoon took the two derro by their elbows and pro - pelled the startled dwarves toward the door.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • Though some of the subject matter would have re-pelled Agatha Christie, this is a closed-circle whodunit in her tradition, with a solution as delightfully elaborate as anything out of the puzzle-loving 1930s but characters and situations indigenous to the 21st century.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Though some of the subject matter would have re-pelled Agatha Christie, this is a closed-circle whodunit in her tradition, with a solution as delightfully elaborate as anything out of the puzzle-loving 1930s but characters and situations indigenous to the 21st century.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • 'But this changes nothing, Marco,' she obviously felt com - pelled to add.

    The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002

  • It was time to bid that beauty farewell, as he'd been com-pelled to do with so many beautiful things throughout his life.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • The compressed, ex-pelled air had blasted each tiny horn free of its support-ing face shield.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

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