expediences
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Peace_2_All @ --- Can't speak for all the atheists'... but I'm curious... "expediences" such as?
From Time ● Apr. 29, 2013
The soldiers, accustomed, as all Roman soldiers were, to all the expediences and resources of warfare, had prepared planks which were to be run forward on the ladder, in order to construct a firm bridge.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert
He is very happy in contriving expediences, and evinces considerable wit in the conception, for instance, of Yussuf the water-carrier.
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat
Mighty antagonisms reared themselves in their way,—ecclesiastical prejudices, the prejudices of culture, social hostilities, political expediences, and all the subtle and violent contrivances of the world, the flesh and the devil.
From The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett
Thus we see that these expediences, pretended for the ceremonies, are attained unto as well and better without them than by them.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
