There a buffalo, with an agricultural god made of clay, having been paraded through the streets, and pelted by the populace, to impel its labours, is placed on the ground, in solemn state, when this official priest of spring gives it a few strokes with a whip, and leaves it to the populace, who pelt it with stones till it is broken to pieces; and so the foolish ceremony terminates.

In the day time, on the contrary, fatigue will impel a child to sleep occasionally, even in the midst of noise.

Women rarely inquire into the reasons which impel them to give themselves up or to resist; they do not even amuse themselves by trying to understand or explain them, but they have feelings, and sentiment with them is correct, it takes the place of intelligence and reflection.

V. be in motion &c adj.; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander &c (deviate) 279; walk &c 266; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving; put in motion, set in motion; move; impel &c 276; propel &c 284; render movable, mobilize.

V. give an impetus &c n.; impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin

put in motion, set in motion; set agoing^, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel &c 276; trundle &c (set in rotation) 312; expel &c 297. carry one off one's legs; put to flight.

A sudden impulse seemed to impel her.

If sustained by my fellow citizens, I shall be grateful and happy; if not, I shall find in the motives which impel me ample grounds for contentment and peace.

For these desirable results, we are well aware that you, like ourselves, are anxious, and we doubt not that, in order to impel you to increased exertion for the promotion of them, you will need no stimulant beyond a simple reference to the considerations we have here suggested. 109.

Doubtless the inspiration imparted by Socrates to a disciple in mere intellect his superior, and the resulting moral and religious suggestions abounding in the Dialogues, did much to impel the current of religious evolution toward that spiritual aspect of the Infinite All which fascinated some of the Neo-Platonists, and received its most splendid exposition from Spinoza.

Having already considered some of the reasons which suggest or support the theory at its outset,which may carry it as far as such sound and experienced naturalists as Pictet allow that it may be true,perhaps as far as Darwin himself unfolds it in the introductory proposition cited at the beginning of this article,we may now inquire after the motives which impel the theorist so much farther.

So potent is the subtle spell That clothes such masses with a mind; So strong the instincts which impel Their lover answering love to find!

Self-love desires a thing because it expects pleasure from it, but the natural impulses impel us toward their objects immediately, i. e., without a representation of the pleasure to be gained; and repetition is necessary before the artificial motive of egoistic pleasure-seeking can be added to the natural motive of inborn desire.

The lecturer gives what no books can give, his own force to impel his own words.

Their "high honor," their "undaunted spirit" would impel them to the fieldonly to prove that the "last resort" requires something more substantial than mere "honor" and "spirit" to maintain it.

A sudden influence may impel us to tear them up and cast them aside, but the seed is in us always, and it grows again.

Behold how long and strong you sweep with the paddle because the bullets of the enemy impel you.

" Then the spirit of unrest would impel Charlie toward the back door, where I would hear him commanding, exhorting, entreating.

Alicia's passions impel her to evil, but her judgment accuses her and prompts her to the right course.

An estimate of his literary gifts and performances lies altogether outside my scope, but the political circumstances of the present hour impel me to conclude this paper with a quotation which, even if it stood alone, would, I think, justify Lord Beaconsfield's judgment quoted abovethat "he was a poet, and a true poet."

The one being the denser population of the fat plains, whereby a greater concourse of builders and of worshippers would be sustained, and the other being theprobably unconsciousinstinct which debarred the architect from attempting to vie with nature in the mountains and impel him to work out his most majestic designs amid wide and level horizons.

These instincts and emotions are incident to every living machine and are the motor forces that impel the organism.

"I should much prefer to stay here," said he gallantly, "but business reasons impel me to seek that inferno out yonder.

Still, there was no telling what strange freak might impel the Pilgrimhe who insisted on keeping a dog in a line-camp!so Billy recovered himself and called out impatiently: "Aw, come on in!

I am inclined to think that there was one great personage, whose (not graciousness, but) intellectual influence did impel her mind in a Conservative direction.