Citations:force


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * ...and, as he ran, some mocked, others threatened, and some cried after him to return; and, among those that did so, there were two that resolved to fetch him back by force.
 * At last, when every man started back for fear of the armed men, Christian saw a man of a very stout countenance come up to the man that sat there to write, saying, Set down my name, Sir: the which when he had done, he saw the man draw his sword, and put a helmet upon his head, and rush toward the door upon the armed men, who laid upon him with deadly force; but the man, not at all discouraged, fell to cutting and hacking most fiercely.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "What!" exclaimed the Ghost, "would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give? Is it not enough that you are one of those whose passions made this cap, and force me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow!"
 * The Spirit dropped beneath it, so that the extinguisher covered its whole form; but though Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light: which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground.

Verb: "to stuff"



 * 1879,, ,
 * Puis, la troupe chantante et exécutante, bien payée d’avance, se retira, non sans emporter force bravos dont elle alla faire encore une importante récolte dans les salons voisins.