feel the necessity for

Example Sentences

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He now began to feel the necessity for some new display of activity in defending the frontier and accordingly he built a sort of row-galley upon which he placed some four-pound cannon.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben

Personally I am in favor of limiting debate to the shortest time, for I feel the necessity for prompt action.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

As a first experiment it will be necessary to play the chord to the class with each note doubled in turn, so that they may feel the necessity for doubling the best note.

From Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students by Home, Ethel

She would have given anything in the world to be, as those children were, unconcerned at the meaning of their words, because too innocent to feel the necessity for any such expression.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas

My wife and her soldiers began to feel the necessity for refreshment.

From The War of the Wenuses by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)