bend to someone's will

Bangs beset her at every turn, meeting her in her walks and rides, coming on her when she was in the field, and could not escape from him, and urging his suit with persuasions, promises, and threats, determined to win her, in spite of the most firm and decided rejection repeated again and again. […] Bangs waxed more and more wroth at her steadfast refusal to bend to his will.