uncompelled
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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
Happy she, if she may be permitted to bring them up to maturity, and uncompelled to renew her joys in another nest.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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
Few were his friends, yet closely round him clustered, But from five million Britons, who at his call Came uncompelled and round him sternly mustered, The sighs escape, the silent teardrops fall.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
Nay, lady, said Sir Aymeris, nor to-morrow, nor any day uncompelled; neither shall we go nigher unto it than now we be.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
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