Which preposition to use with compels

to Occurrences 69%

As it was getting very late in the fall, we were compelled to winter at Fort Bridger; and a long, tedious winter it was.

in Occurrences 25%

The mutual guaranty from its affirmative nature compelled in fact, though not in form, the establishment of a ruling group, a coalition of the Great Powers, and denied, though not in terms, the equality of nations.

at Occurrences 17%

Compelled at last to admit that the peril had been unconsciously incurred when she neither knew nor could have known it, she pleaded eagerly and earnestly for permission to repair by the sacrifice of herself the injury she had brought upon me.

for Occurrences 10%

For now was he compelled for the first time in his life, at any length, to live apart from his daughter, to refrain from embracing her when they met in the morning, to speak to her in a rough, churlish sort when his heart, maybe, was overflowing with love, and to reconcile himself to a cool, indifferent behaviour on her side, when his very soul was yearning for gentle, tender warmth.

on Occurrences 8%

In this way he too was compelled on his own initiative to array himself in mourning garments and become a suppliant of Caesar.

into Occurrences 7%

In March 1801 Coleridge wrote to Godwin: "In my long illness I had compelled into hours of delight many a sleepless, painful hour of darkness by chasing down metaphysical game, and since then I have continued the hunt, until I found myself unaware at the root of pure mathematics....

from Occurrences 6%

Far from this, however, he only touches on his needs in the following letter to Alfred Vail, written on November 14, 1839: "As to the Telegraph, I have been compelled from necessity to apply myself to those duties which yield immediate pecuniary relief.

against Occurrences 3%

He also was in favor of Catholic emancipation and the repeal of the Test Act, which the Duke of Wellington was compelled against his will ultimately to give to the nation.

Through Occurrences 3%

My sire, of good repute, and sombre mood, O'er nature's powers and every mystic zone, With honest zeal, but methods of his own, With toil fantastic loved to brood; His time in dark alchemic cell, With brother-adepts he would spend, And there antagonists compel Through numberless receipts to blend.

under Occurrences 2%

Absent members may be compelled under penalties to attend.

by Occurrences 2%

Compelled by want to attendance and solicitation, and so much versed in common life, that he has transmitted to us the most perfect delineation of the manners of his age, he joined to his knowledge of the world such application to books, that he will stand for ever in the first rank of literary heroes.

with Occurrences 2%

Does he make those happy, whom he seizes, as they are trying to escape the general devastation, and compels with their wives and families to a wretched servitude?

within Occurrences 1%

At certain intervals, la hierra, the branding, takes place; when drove after drove are dexterously compelled within the walls of the corral, and there marked with the initials or cipher of the proprietor.

among Occurrences 1%

Abject and absolute obedience is necessary to his success, and he compels obedience in the only way in which it can be compelled among criminalsby fear.

after Occurrences 1%

Even the Aetolians, when their corps shut up in Heraclea had been compelled after obstinate resistance to capitulate, attempted to make their peace with the sorely provoked Romans; but the stringent demands of the Roman consul, and a consignment of money seasonably arriving from Antiochus, emboldened them once more to break off the negotiations and to sustain for two whole months a siege in Naupactus.

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