exigences
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The first impulse was to fly from the scene; but I could not be long insensible to the exigences of the moment.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
He recovered his composure hurriedly, as the exigences of the situation were such that one could readily forget a little inconvenience when one’s life was at stake.
From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins
Every people, every large community is able to furniſh a revenue adequate to the exigences of government.
From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
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
It therefore remained for Gage to do the shouting, which duty he performed with a vigour out of proportion to the apparent exigences of the case.
From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay
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