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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]).
  1. It may be deemed best, at the next session, to urge an early Constitutional Convention.
    — from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
  2. 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
  3. And I will urge the Senate here to choose Plenipotentiary ambassadors, As argument adducing this connection.
    — from Lysistrata by Aristophanes
  4. 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
  5. "Trojans, be bold, and force with force oppose; Your foaming steeds urge headlong on the foes!
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  6. " Thus did the earth-encircler address the Achaeans and urge them on.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.
    — from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  13. 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
  14. Experienced horticulturists and agriculturists incessantly urge every one to preserve the finest plants for the production of seed.
    — from Paradise Lost by John Milton
  15. 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

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