exigences
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Miss Lillah McCarthy sacrificed something of her personality to the exigences of a flaxen chevelure.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
His "Magnalia" was printed in England, and the exigences and vicissitudes of publication at that time are fully told in his diary; also the exalted and idealized view which he took of authorship.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
Lord Nelson now kindly condoled with her; and generously made up the small pittance left by his brother, whom he most tenderly loved, a regular annuity of two hundred pounds, besides providing for immediate exigences.
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 by Harrison, James
How easy too to avoid this defect, by adapting the subjects of the dances to the different exigences of the different dramas, whether serious, comic, or farcical!
From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea
O thou, that hereafter shalt be the great derision of thine enemies! which of the two shall depend upon himself in exigences with most certainty?
From The Works of Horace by Horace
