expediences
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From Time ● Apr. 29, 2013
Indeed, they are the results of various necessities and expediences.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Thus it makes the individual the center of his own universe, and dissolves moral principles into a choice of expediences.
From The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney
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
Because, when love flames beyond duty and honour and all expediences, Lysbet, some one a little cold water ought to throw.
From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr