exigences
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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 James Harrison
Like the steward in the parable, “they cannot dig, to beg they are ashamed;” and like him, they too often resort to unworthy means to supply their exigences.
From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Frederick Marryat
Similar historical relations and similar national exigences of the time bind us to Italy.
From William of Germany by Stanley Shaw
His weakness was not, however, shared by the ladies who, having him fast in their grips, knelt, under the exigences of the situation, beside him.
From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay
The industrial revolution was demanding labor; it was demanding intelligent labor, while the supposed political and social exigences of the situation called for ignorance and subserviency.
From The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development by W. E. Burghardt DuBois
