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
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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Alas, how, in thy soft-hung Longacre vehicle, of polished leather to the bodily eye, of redtape philosophy, of expediences, clubroom moralities, Parliamentary majorities to the mind's eye, thou beautifully rollest: but knowest thou whitherward?
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
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 Marryat, Frederick
Indeed, they are the results of various necessities and expediences.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
