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Updated: May 14, 2025
The young wife sat alert and straight at her work, her cheek still pink, her eyes bright. But after a silence, George suddenly sprang up to pace the little room, and she heard him say, under his breath, "But who am I, that I should be coercing them and trampling on them! men old enough to be my father driving them down to-morrow while I sleep for a dog's wage!"
The summer of 1775 saw the first engagement which could well be dignified with the name of a battle. A small English force had been sent to Boston with the object of coercing the recalcitrant colony of Massachusetts.
Its gravity lies in its impracticability. If it were practicable, every sane man would advocate it. As it is, it might easily mean that British troops would be coercing British strikers at home when they should be fighting Potsdam abroad, thus producing a disastrous and detestable division of popular feeling in the face of the enemy. *The Disarmament Delusion.*
I shall take him at his word that he does not intend to sell to any one, and try to persuade him that, if he is bent on coercing any people, the English are not the ones that require this, as they are in perfect accord with him, and that he would accomplish his purpose much more quickly if he would bring force to bear upon the German Emperor."
And still we do not cease coercing and burdening them, although now that everything has been brought to light we have lost our reputation and their good will, and our former halo of sanctity can no longer avail or exert the influence which it exerted formerly.
A coercing necessity is impure, for it is at war with that to which it applies; only a necessity in sweetest affinity with that which it governs is of the purest degree; and this is, of course, identical with the highest and divinest freedom. And here we approach the solution of our problem, so far as it can be solved.
To say that the possession of power, wealth, or influence was frequently abused to the overawing and coercing of those assemblies, is simply to state that they were composed of human beings possessed of fallen natures.
In the voice of Omnes Omnibus at Nantes my voice again demanding the petition that sounded the knell of your hopes of coercing the Third Estate, did you not hear again the voice of Philippe de Vilmorin?
Peter Blood had listened to the intemperate, the blasphemous, and almost obscene invective of that tirade with a detachment that afterwards, in retrospect, surprised him. He was so amazed by the man, by the reactions taking place in him between mind and body, and by his methods of bullying and coercing the jury into bloodshed, that he almost forgot that his own life was at stake.
Don't you think you're going rather too far, now?" "No sir, I don't." "Very well, I'll listen to you, to the end." "If Patricia Langdon loves you, Duncan, I'll hit the trail for Montana and the sky-line this afternoon, and I'll ask you to pardon me for any break I have made here, this evening; but, if she doesn't love you, and if, as I suspect, you are coercing her in this matter "
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