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

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 Morris, May

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 Williams, Theodore C.

Without hope, uncompelled labor is an impossibility; and hope implies an object.

From Lectures on Art by Allston, Washington

He walks abroad in the majesty of an universal understanding, eyeing the “rich strond,” or golden sky above him, and “goes sounding on his way,” in eloquent accents, uncompelled and free!

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob