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But she gazed upon the wide blue eyes and rose-white skin of this woman that advanced to meet her, and she measured her with woman's eyes looking through man's eyes; and as a man compeller she felt herself diminish and grow insignificant before this radiant and flashing creature.

THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

Introducing the conflict early I think is a huge compeller and then reminding the reader periodically.

What Makes a Story Compelling? Becca 2007

'My child,' protested Zeus, the cloud-compeller, 'what sharp judgements you let slip between your teeth …'

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

Whom the gods the supreme skull-compeller have named.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

If the compeller had affected the mutant, he did not show it.

The Zero Stone Norton, Andre 1968

"They - had - a compeller - on us -" He got out each word as if to form it with his savaged lips was a fearsome task.

The Zero Stone Norton, Andre 1968

Well, you enter into agreement with the compeller of horses, alias

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The old master, Love, the compeller of so many heroisms and so many crimes, from Eve and Helen to Manon

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

A more dangerous tool in the hands of an unscrupulous evidence-compeller, being at once intelligent, cunning and pliant, than the child proved herself, it would not have been easy to have discovered.

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts

Then the son of Saturn, compeller of the ocean deep, uttered thus: 'It is wholly right, O Cytherean, that thy trust should be in my realm, whence thou drawest birth; and I have deserved it: often have I allayed the rage and full fury of sky and sea.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil