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Example sentences for "length compelled"

  • Sons of Governors Barnard and Hutchinson refuse to enter into agreement, but are at length compelled to yield.

  • That city, with Fronsac and Bayonne, still held out; but famine at length compelled them to surrender.

  • The citizens of London were allied with the barons in this measure, and Edward found himself at length compelled to submit.

  • Rufus pursued them over the hills; but his march was attended with heavy loss to his army, and he was at length compelled to retreat, "not without some note of dishonour.

  • She stood out stoutly; but fear of worse consequences at length compelled her to succumb, and a private contract was concluded.

  • Anne was at length compelled to marry the hated Gloucester; and her hatred appeared to increase from nearer acquaintance, for she was soon after praying for a divorce.

  • His improvidence speedily reduced him in that city to a condition of the most abject misery and want, and he was at length compelled to accept employment in the yard of a quaker shipbuilder.

  • But while performing the duties of his office, he was guilty of so many and so great excesses, that he was at length compelled to retire, and London once more became his residence.

  • For many years he suffered from an affection of the bladder, and was at length compelled to resort to a surgical operation for relief.

  • He found it as difficult to procure work here as it had been in Louisville, and was at length compelled to resort to peddling apples on the street in order to secure a living.

  • He held his position in the public school for several years after his appointment to it, but the requirements of his business at length compelled him to relinquish it.

  • They carried on such a course of outrage and violence that the respectable citizens were at length compelled to combine for defence against them by means of an organization known as the Regulators.

  • This, however, proved the last of his exploits; for having made several fruitless attempts to run away from this wife, he was at length compelled to take her with him, and on his way through the county of Durham he was apprehended.

  • Cashin begged for his box, but the supposed inspector refused to give it up, and the poor Jew was at length compelled to go away, leaving his property in the hands of the prisoner.

  • Zaragossa, after sustaining another siege with fortitude not unworthy of the first, was at length compelled to surrender in the month of February.

  • The garrison was strong; they had caught the general flame; and the Princess was at length compelled to take refuge in an English frigate.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better advantage; blue and; comparison between; conducting power; crimes against; double meaning; fifteen shillings; five millions; heavy sigh; keep them; leaves usually; length ahead; length and; length came; length compelled; length figures; length reached; length said; length succeeded; length the; length they; lengthened period; limited natural fresh water; president and vice presidents; what prompted; will treat