Lexicographical Neighbors of Compulsed
Literary usage of Compulsed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"I AM a British parient, my quiver musters six, My education's mi Hin', or—as I
pronounce it—nix. Nor ever will I be " compulsed " to send my kids to school. ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... while Battalion Margraf-Karl stood with invincible stubbornness, pouring death
from it; not to be compulsed by the raging tide of Austrian grenadiers; ..."
3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... not to be compulsed by the raging tide of Austrian grenadiers ; not by ' six
Austrian battalions,' by ' eight,' or by never so many. ..."
4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"You may spend hours, days, weeks almost over the 11 do not pretend to have exten-
have taken care to refresh and confirm •ively consulted or "compulsed" the ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... not to be compulsed by the raging tide of Austrian grenadiers ; not by ' six
Austrian battalions,' by ' eight,1 or by never so many. ..."
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