impelling skill as a teller of tales.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

It is all very earnest, with a national soul impelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Let us not yet scrutinize too closely the main impelling forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference

The records of Congress show, however, that the motives impelling the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

Now it swelled into a smooth, impelling wail lulling him into drowsiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beast of Space] Reference

But this bereavement seemed impelling me to return to my afflicted children.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

"There is an impelling power behind me, and I dare not look backward," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference

There was a fire burning within the heart of Jeremiah, impelling him to prophesy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

The moral norm or rule impelling the will to the realisation of this end is called Duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

Together, they constitute the dual knowledge system impelling the advance of civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Common Faith] Reference

So because of these very impelling reasons against my running, I have decided that I shall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Chase Smith: A Free-Speech Crusader] Reference

So pleasure and pain are not usually the impelling force or conscious motive behind conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

It seemed as if a mysterious force was impelling him thus to expiate the crimes of his house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

Things in general seemed to be shifting into a new mode of life and impelling him to go along.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Woman] Reference

The fierce water would sweep the wearied beasts down in its impelling current, and he with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

It continues to move after the impelling force ceases; and a metal wheel has greater momentum than.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference

I laid a hand on Hinge, impelling him downward as the Austrian police spy walked towards the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Direst Peril] Reference

"She worked splendidly during the war," interposed Penelope, her sense of justice impelling the remark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

Firmly fixed were the young artist's convictions to resist the impelling force of Hotep's consternation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

Strong indeed must have been the impelling motive which carried these two weak women over that rugged barrier!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Perhaps even now some invisible being, conscious of their danger, might be impelling their father to the rescue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

But still, upborne by almost superhuman strength, urged by some strange, impelling power, he must battle for his race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference

But though a wild and reckless sailor, his warm and generous heart was ever impelling him to noble and generous deeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference

From without and at a distance, you cannot tell whether the upper is impelling the under, or the under moving the upper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference

Beautiful as these old-time visions of 'Good' were, they lacked impelling force, the power to change dreams into realities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

As is the strength of the impelling tendency, so, other things being equal, is the pain which it will experience if it be baffled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

Germans had the philosophy of play, the English had an intuitive love of play, and love is a greater impelling force than philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

All the passions, good and bad, which push men are impelling the most adventurous and energetic of our race to look or to go thither.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889] Reference

There is plenty of impelling force, but this force, for want of a director, only makes the ship go round and round in a weltering sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference

Hsiang Lin was naturally of somewhat hasty temperament, so that with shame and anger mutually impelling each other, he inquired of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

By justifying the war in terms requiring total victory while conducting a strategy impelling compromise, NATO has maneuvered itself into a trap.    From Wordnik.com.  [New World Disorder] Reference

C, and has impelling force applied to it, then C becomes the point of resistance, and thus counter-fractures at the cranial base occur in the neighbourhood of C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

'Unity of the soul with the divine in nature' - this was what lived vividly as a conviction in the seven-year-old boy, impelling him to act as 'nature's priest' (Wordsworth).    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference