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 Brown, Charles Brockden
It therefore remained for Gage to do the shouting, which duty he performed with a vigour out of proportion to the apparent exigences of the case.
From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William
To obviate future exigences, Constantia betook herself once more to the needle.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
His weakness was not, however, shared by the ladies who, having him fast in their grips, knelt, under the exigences of the situation, beside him.
From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William
When Camilla was published she had been relieved from these exigences, though not from that favour, for five years: and was a thoroughly happy woman, rejoicing in husband and child.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
