Thesaurus / urgency
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The moral effect of the charity was most injurious to the country, whatever its material advantage in the urgency of the occasion.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLANFor the merman turned and caught at Dalgard, pulling the larger colonist along a step or two with the urgency of his grip.
STAR BORNANDRE NORTONMatters of grave urgency make it advisable that discussion be opened between a representative of the UN forces and themselves.
SECOND VARIETYPHILIP KINDRED DICKWieland disclaimed merit for any, but, under urgency, confessed that he liked best his "Agathon" and "Oberon."
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANEThe dreams began bothering him again, now that the urgency of getting Evri-Flave, Inc., started had eased.
HUNTER PATROLHENRY BEAM PIPER AND JOHN J. MCGUIREIt was at the urgency of Goethe that he gave them to the world.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 16, NO. 97, NOVEMBER, 1865VARIOUSHe wished to see the king on business of the utmost urgency.
MARGARET OF ANJOUJACOB ABBOTT.Somehow there was an urgency, an insistence, an appeal about those hurried pulsations that no human voice could have conveyed.
THE REVOLT OF THE STAR MENRAYMOND GALLUNEngland, interested as ever in Sicilian affairs, impressed upon the Sicilian leaders the urgency of an early settlement.
A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAREDWIN EMERSONThe urgency of the request opened the eyes of the British Foreign Secretary to the gravity of the situation.
A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAREDWIN EMERSONWORDS RELATED TO URGENCY
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