exigences
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Lord Nelson now kindly condoled with her; and generously made up the small pittance left by his brother, whom he most tenderly loved, a regular annuity of two hundred pounds, besides providing for immediate exigences.
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 by James Harrison
Owing to the exigences of space, weighing-scales and pumps are included in the agricultural building, and the exhibition of Fairbanks & Co. deserves and receives cordial approval.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
The Emperor, as I shall hereafter have occasion to notice, has very little surplus revenue at his disposal, and is frequently distressed for money to pay his army and other exigences of the state.
Only the exigences of labor can excuse verbal intercourse.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Ridgwell Cullum
Every people, every large community is able to furniſh a revenue adequate to the exigences of government.
From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks