exigences
Example Sentences
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The most striking lines, the most eloquent tirades, arise less from the exigences of the drama than from the constant desire of the poet to give expression to his love of Provence.
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer
He recollected that the engagement on his part was voluntary and explicit, and he disdained to urge his present exigences as reasons for retracting it.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
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
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
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
