exigences
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To obviate future exigences, Constantia betook herself once more to the needle.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
This exclusive maintenance, and yet extension of the Creed, according to the exigences of the times, is instanced in other Fathers.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
O thou, that hereafter shalt be the great derision of thine enemies! which of the two shall depend upon himself in exigences with most certainty?
From The Works of Horace by Horace
His "Magnalia" was printed in England, and the exigences and vicissitudes of publication at that time are fully told in his diary; also the exalted and idealized view which he took of authorship.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
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
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