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Definition of Impels
1. impel [v] - See also: impel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impels
Literary usage of Impels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"As, by force Of a strong wind, that to its wont impels The billows, out upon the
broad-spread sea A climbing wave surmounts a galley's sides ..."
2. The Ruling Principle of Method Applied to Education by Antonio Rosmini, Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey (1903)
"Language, whether vocal or composed of signs of whatever kind, gives the stimulus
which impels and helps the human mind to attain cognitions of the second ..."
3. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1899)
"... but Arran recovers his Influence, and impels the King to vindictive Measures—Queen
Elizabeth expostulates with James without Effect —Walsingham visits ..."
4. The War on the Bank of the United States: Or, A Review of the Measures of by Thomas Francis Gordon (1834)
"There was communicated everywhere that uncertainty of the future, which impels
every man to seek provision for the coming month, as well as for the passing ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"... Peace and Mercy in its beauty shine, And how the heavenly messenger impels
Her glad winga on the path, that thus in ether swells. THE POETRY OF MOTION. ..."
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