exigences
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Owing to exigences of space reference to several important new books has necessarily been postponed.
From Children's Books and Their Illustrators by Gleeson White
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
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
How easy too to avoid this defect, by adapting the subjects of the dances to the different exigences of the different dramas, whether serious, comic, or farcical!
From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
Like the steward in the parable, “they cannot dig, to beg they are ashamed;” and like him, they too often resort to unworthy means to supply their exigences.
From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Frederick Marryat
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