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

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

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 McGuffey, William Holmes

O that they did but know my heart!—It shall sooner burst, than voluntarily, uncompelled, undriven, dictate a measure that shall cast a slur either upon them, or upon my sex.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel

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 Morris, William