exigences

Owing to exigences of space reference to several important new books has necessarily been postponed.

From Children's Books and Their Illustrators by Gleeson White

The blooming-season, according to the exigences of weather, begins from May 20 to June 10 in Indiana, and lasts about a week.

From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various

If travelers have ample transportation, it will be a wise precaution, in passing through the buffalo range, to lay in a supply of jerked meat for future exigences.

From The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions by Randolph Barnes Marcy

The Emperor, as I shall hereafter have occasion to notice, has very little surplus revenue at his disposal, and is frequently distressed for money to pay his army and other exigences of the state.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

Although we had been for many years on the verge of war, we had done comparatively nothing to meet its exigences, but stood and stupidly gazed into its fearful abyss.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley