feel the necessity for
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My wife and her soldiers began to feel the necessity for refreshment.
From The War of the Wenuses by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
She would have given anything in the world to be, as those children were, un- concerned at the meaning of their words, because too innocent to feel the necessity for any such expression.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The fleet slackened their fire towards night, as the guns of the enemy became silenced, and the ships began to feel the necessity for husbanding their ammunition.
From The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth by Edward Osler
Experience with the other plays had led the children to feel the necessity for having a satisfactory ending after the climax.
From The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children by Elizabeth Erwin Miller Lobingier
He now began to feel the necessity for some new display of activity in defending the frontier and accordingly he built a sort of row-galley upon which he placed some four-pound cannon.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
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