Lexicographical Neighbors of Compulses
Literary usage of Compulses
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)
"Afore some Edification League " compulses " me to chapel. My hin fonts, whom the
parsons all denounce as heathens utter, I find ret on most wonderfully in ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1900)
"We have a compulsory school law that "compulses," — a law that is compulsory on
the father and mother as well as on the child. ..."
3. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session (1900)
"We have a compulsory school law that "compulses," — a law that is compulsory on
the father and mother as well as on the child. ..."
4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1900)
"... will undertake to read and classify for the catalogue any papers or books not
included in the 'listes compulses" of the survey which may come to him. ..."
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