exigences
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Only the exigences of labor can excuse verbal intercourse.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Ridgwell Cullum
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
Then, to meet the exigences of his case, in opposition to Christianity in the Roman Empire, he made the ecclesiastical hierarchies in union with the civil government the medium of his rule.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
The knowledge of which I have spoken is valuable in the ordinary course of public business, and absolutely essential in the exigences of political and national life.
From Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions by George S. Boutwell
Wood hath graciously promised to load us at present only with forty thousand pounds of his coin, till the exigences of the kingdom require the rest.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift