exigences
Example Sentences
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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
N.B.—The exigences of the Drama are responsible for his making his appearance here, instead of waiting, as is more usual, at the church.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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
Miss Lillah McCarthy sacrificed something of her personality to the exigences of a flaxen chevelure.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
The industrial revolution was demanding labor; it was demanding intelligent labor, while the supposed political and social exigences of the situation called for ignorance and subserviency.
From The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development by W. E. Burghardt DuBois
