feel the necessity for

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Men who go through a prodigious amount of work feel the necessity for varying it.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

Perhaps," I suggested as gently as I could, "it is just because Mrs. Bradley is neither a thief nor a drunkard nor worse, dear Miss Jencks, that she does not feel the necessity for weeping.

From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)

Strange indeed, that the inhabitants of a climate so bland, and a soil so fertile, should possess the taste, or feel the necessity for so revolting and unnatural a species of barbarism.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.

"Look here, my friend, haven't we been married long enough for you to cease to feel the necessity for those pretty speeches?"

From Patty and Azalea by Wells, Carolyn

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