compellers

They were the man compellers, as their men were the world compellers.

THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

But far surpassing even this in awful effect was the doom meted out to the bush-handlers, the medicine-men, the rain - compellers, erewhile so inscrutably potent for working out the bliss or the bale of friend or enemy.

West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

Mountains, being cloud-compellers, are rain-shedders, and the shed water will not always flow with decorous gayety in dell or glen.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

This point was made so exceedingly clear, and his promise was demanded in such stringent terms that Nick was no longer able to doubt that the interests of the Stevenses were being very carefully attended to by these "spook-compellers."

The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories Nicholas Carter

And it is going from bad to worse in a ratio of geometrical progression; for how can effeminate men -- a canesucking, primping, mincing, affected conglomeration of masculine inanity and asininity beget world-compellers.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

They were the man compellers, as their men were the world compellers.

The Story of Jees Uck 1904

And the instinct which had driven a new class of world-compellers to bind themselves to slavish imitation of the superseded, and their prompt and reverent faith in the reality of the sham they had created, seemed to Bowen the most satisfying proof of human permanence.

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

There may have been women so bloodless that their love left frost on the window-panes of their boudoirs; but never did their sons become world compellers.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

One of the real old text-compellers and psalm-expounders which the faithful drew in the days of yore, when they would:

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

It is useless to deny it: Democracy grows rankly up the thickest, noxious, deadliest plants and fruits of all—brings worse and worse invaders—needs newer, larger, stronger, keener compensations and compellers.

Democratic Vistas: Paras. 120–132. Collect 1892