uncompelled
Example Sentences
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He does not dictate to them but is instead dictated to; our democratic context lays bare the widespread, uncompelled eagerness for aesthetics over results.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2020
For, sooth to say, hitherto we have found this, that all men dread Evilshaw, and none will enter it uncompelled.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
The very oaks ran honey; the mild flock Brought home its swelling udders, uncompelled.
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams
I see thou wilt take her perforce; so give me her price: but take heed that I sell her not uncompelled.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
It was here that my own free mind, uncompelled by pedagogues and unallured by prizes, first achieved a whole chapter in the Bible.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
