Literary notes about urge (AI summary)
The word "urge" assumes a multifaceted role in literature, frequently serving as both a call to action and a depiction of inner impulse. In dramatic narratives, it can be an imperative command that pushes characters to engage in political or military endeavors, as when reform is passionately advocated in a political setting ([1], [2], [3]) or when warriors are spurred toward battle ([4], [5], [6]). Meanwhile, in more reflective or internal contexts, it often denotes a compelling internal drive or desire that shapes personal decision-making and moral resolve ([7], [8], [9]). At times, authors use "urge" to portray the delicate interplay between external persuasion and personal conviction, suggesting a blend of rational argument and emotional inspiration ([10], [11], [12]). Whether highlighting the forcefulness of external demand or the subtleties of internal motivation, the term enriches the texture of literary language by evoking both physical action and psychological movement ([13], [14], [15]).
- It may be deemed best, at the next session, to urge an early Constitutional Convention.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - A spur was wanting to urge him beyond the limits of so contracted an existence, and that spur was supplied by an honourable ambition.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - And I will urge the Senate here to choose Plenipotentiary ambassadors, As argument adducing this connection.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes - With whip and voice I heard them Urge on the maddened steed, Whilst to my frantic warnings They paid no single heed.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) by Various - "Trojans, be bold, and force with force oppose; Your foaming steeds urge headlong on the foes!
— from The Iliad by Homer - " Thus did the earth-encircler address the Achaeans and urge them on.
— from The Iliad by Homer - Old One Eye was feeling the urge of an impulse, that was, in turn, an instinct that had come down to him from all the fathers of wolves.
— from White Fang by Jack London - The thought of Stephen was like a horrible throbbing pain, which yet, as such pains do, seemed to urge all other thoughts into activity.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot - We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer - However, sire, if I might advise, your majesty will interrogate the person of whom I spoke to you, and I will urge your majesty to do him this honor.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - The point I now urge you to observe particularly is the part played by the older truths.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - Then gentle cheater urge not my amiss, Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - Experienced horticulturists and agriculturists incessantly urge every one to preserve the finest plants for the production of seed.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton - And fawning breed Of house-bred whelps do feel the sudden urge To shake their bodies and start from off the ground, As if beholding stranger-visages.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus