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

No one uncompelled cared to face the grim, gray, scowling day whose breath was freezing.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

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

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

I spake not uncompelled, And blushed not out the avowal.

From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles