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Sentences starting with necessity

Necessity drove them so far, and farther they would not go. [7]
Necessity is the mother of "taking chances. [5]
Necessity knows no law. [7]

Sentences ending with necessity

Then my love would be a free act, and not in any way a necessity. [5]
I think he was genuinely fond of birds, but, so far as I know, he usually confined himself to one a day; he never killed, as some sportsmen do, for the sake of killing, but only as civilized people do,--from necessity. [4]
Hide and seek was altogether too tame for her, a stake of life and death, or imprisonment or treasure, being a necessity. [9]
But the election was a necessity. [7]
Women, however, seem to find that kind of thing a moral necessity. [11]
They were obliged to bow to the necessity. [7]
I also yield to all which follows from that necessity. [7]
When people belong to a clique, they must, I suppose, in some measure, write, talk, think, and live for that clique; a harassing and narrowing necessity. [14]
Every possible motive, then,--his interest, his jealousy, his longing for revenge, and now his fears for his own safety,--urged him to regard the happening of a certain casualty as a matter of simple necessity. [6]
When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity. [7]

Short sentences using necessity

And what was the necessity? [10]
There is no immediate necessity. [9]

Sentences containing necessity two or more times

All the Cabinet regretted the necessity of arresting, for instance, Vallandigham, some perhaps doubting there was a real necessity for it; but, being done, all were for seeing you through with it. [7]
I yielded from necessity to Quilp, for though necessity has no law, she has her lawyers. [12]
Nothing but necessity brings me here, and nothing but necessity will keep me here a moment longer than I have to stay to finish this abominable affair. [9]
That there was a necessity for something of the sort was clear; but that it could only be justified by stern necessity, and that it was liable to great abuse in administration, was equally clear. [7]

More example sentences with the word necessity in them

I couldn't expect you to see the necessity of that. [9]
I yield to you from necessity too; from policy besides; and because of feelings that have been a pretty long time working within me. [12]
How gladly I would spare myself my own praises, and you the necessity of listening to them! [10]
Ah, if necessity would but make me happy too, by giving you your liberty, that on these many miseries endured we might set up a sure home. [11]
Necessity, he thought, would bring him back to where he had a life free from anxiety awaiting him. [10]
To meet a woman was not of necessity to marry her. [11]
His purse overflowed with zechins; but with the red gold, Art withdrew from him her powerful ally, necessity, the pressing need of gaining a livelihood by the exertion of his own strength. [10]
It does away with the necessity of the hinge in the back. [4]
It is not with any pleasure that I contemplate the possibility that a necessity may arise in this country for the use of the military arm. [7]
Many times that winter I was a guest at the yellow-brick house, and I have to confess, as spring came on, that I made several trips to Elkington which business necessity did not absolutely demand. [9]
We, the Old Whigs, have been entirely beaten out on the tariff question, and we shall not be able to re-establish the policy until the absence of it shall have demonstrated the necessity for it in the minds of men heretofore opposed to it. [7]
The particular accident which might interrupt his career must, evidently, be determined by circumstances; but it must be of a nature to explain itself without the necessity of any particular person's becoming involved in the matter. [6]
In this world where every thing is deceitful, and no one is outspoken, the man who alone is under the necessity of proclaiming what he considers the truth, is like a warrior who opposes himself without shield or harness to a fully armed foe. [10]
The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
Sympathy and sentiment were natural and proper manifestations of human society, but governments were, of necessity, ruled by sterner considerations. [11]
Our parting words were as brief as, of necessity, they had been on our journey through the mountains, for the ladies had ridden the horses which we had sent over for ourselves from Viking, and we men walked in front. [11]
Having dismounted he went up to the Emperor with rapid strides and in a loud voice began boldly demonstrating the necessity of sending reinforcements. [2]
You know me well enough to be aware that, like you, I am reluctant to infringe another's rights, that except in case of necessity I am not cruel. [10]
I understand as well Dr. Latham's fear "that many men of the best abilities and good education will be deterred from prosecuting physic as a profession, in consequence of the necessity indiscriminately laid upon all for impossible attainments. [3]
Henry Brevoort, who was then in London, wrote an anxious letter to Irving to impress him with the necessity of making much of Mr. Jeffrey. [4]
Their late visit was due to the necessity of holding a conference in relation to the measures to be adopted to calm the excited citizens. [10]
Stocks down, there was a necessity of bracing up with whomever he met at any of the three or four clubs in which he lounged in the afternoon; and stocks up, there was reason for celebrating that fact in the same way. [4]
A young printer wanders around a good deal, seeking and finding work; and seeking again, when necessity commands. [5]
So you give up your trains of thought, capitulate to necessity, and manage to lug in some kind of allusion, in place or out of place, which will allow you to make use of bars. [6]
He remarked, somewhat unsteadily, that to prolong the controversy would be useless and painful to all concerned, and he infinitely regretted the necessity of putting his suggestion that the rector resign in the form of a resolution . [9]
Perhaps they are under a necessity of doing something. [4]
In the muddy trenches of Flanders and France a new comradeship has sprung up between officers and Tommies, while time-honoured precedent has been broken by the necessity of giving thousands of commissions to men of merit who do not belong to the "officer caste. [9]
And yet, next to the necessity of waiting at Memphis for the return of her messenger, nothing tied her to the place so strongly as her interest in watching the future course of his life, at any rate from a distance. [10]
If necessity requires, to the mines with the siren! [10]
Now Clark rose to the great necessity, and said that he would patch her up to carry us on, or never lift a hammer more. [11]
Then he roused to the call of action, to the many things he needed to do in the way of making camp fixtures and utensils, to the necessity of hunting food, and the desire to explore the valley. [13]
We should have to sit together now when in company, or people would notice; but it would not be good politics for me to be playing equality with him when there was no necessity for it. [5]
They have assumed to make a national constitution of their own, in which of necessity they have either discarded or retained the right of secession as they insist it exists in ours. [7]
Yet he seems to have been mainly intent upon society and the amusements of the passing hour, and, without the spur of necessity to his literary capacity, he yielded to the temptations of indolence, and settled into the unpromising position of a "man about town. [4]
For the moment to get away from this was the one necessity, and without reasoning in the matter, only feeling, he was hurrying, stumbling in his haste, northward. [4]
I am sorry to destroy the confidence of your youth, but whoever grows grey, with his eyes open, will meet persons who rejoice, nay to whom it is a necessity to injure others. [10]
It had seemed to deliver all power into the hands of the ignorant and non-tax-paying classes; and of a necessity the responsible offices were filled from these classes also. [5]
All the way to Boston she had sat gazing out of the window at the blinding whiteness of the fields, incapable of rousing herself to the necessity of thought, to a degree of feeling commensurate with the situation. [9]
It is impossible to begin a story which must of necessity tax the powers of belief of readers unacquainted with the class of facts to which its central point of interest belongs without some words in the nature of preparation. [6]
In spite of this, and although his absence threatened to rouse Caesar to fury, and everything pointed to the necessity of his remaining within call, Macrinus, drawn by an irresistible craving, had followed the invitation, which sounded more like a command. [10]
No result following this, after a day King consulted the proprietor, and asked him point blank, as a friend, what course he would pursue if he were under the necessity of having washing done in that region. [4]
I knew that this state of things must of necessity be accidental, because in this country all men were free and equal, and one person could not take to himself an advantage not accorded to all other individuals. [5]
He had recognised this necessity, and considered the pros and cons precisely as if the matter were a political question. [10]
Will you do this at once, or will you compel me to show you the absolute necessity of your doing it, at the expense of pain to both of us? [6]
I do not think it is at all a necessity to tell you Admiral Harrington's public history. [5]
They did what they could, and yielded to the necessity for the rest. [7]
In putting forward these tributes of admiration and affection, as well as in his constant allusion to the ill requital of his services, we see a man fighting for his reputation, and conscious of the necessity of doing so. [4]
I maintain that there is no necessity for apologizing for a man who helped in a small way to stop such mutilation. [5]
Why no necessity then for repeal? [7]
It was all the while deemed possible that the necessity for it might come, and that if it should the crisis of the contest would then be presented. [7]
From the outside the spectacle might have had its pathos, and it is not easy to justify such an experiment as he had made at his time of life, except upon the ground where he rested from its consideration--the ground of necessity. [8]
The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that Nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion, at the risk of perpetual crime and disorder. [6]
He believed that the plain people would be ready to fight when it clearly appeared necessary, and that they would feel that necessity when they felt themselves attacked. [7]
Different results of the one Master Impulse: the necessity of securing one's self approval. [5]
My experience of the night before might have taught me that happiness lies in the trick of transforming necessity, but it did not. [9]
She also felt the necessity--a necessity totally unknown to such a nature as Carmen's--of making compensation, of compounding for her pleasures. [4]
Besides poverty and the necessity of attending to business, those "coming events," I suspect, would be somewhat in the way. [7]
One side ignored the necessity and magnified the evils of the system, while the other ignored the evils and magnified the necessity; and each bitterly assailed the other. [7]
There was always the moral necessity, of course--but then! [11]
It is to the mind, and not to the senses, that such a story must appeal, and all attempts to render the character and events objective on the stage, or to make them real by artistic illustrations, are almost of necessity failures. [6]
He had relieved the meeting of the necessity of taking any further action: of putting their names, for instance, in their enthusiasm to a paper which the first citizen might see. [9]
The exhilaration of the long spring-board, the necessity of holding on to something or somebody to prevent being tossed overboard, put occupants in a larkish mood that they might never attain in an ordinary vehicle. [4]
He must bind the judges to secrecy, should it prove impossible to avoid the necessity of informing them of Eva's somnambulism. [10]
The people of the island had been good to her and her dead husband during the two short years of their married life, and had caused her to love the land which necessity made her home. [11]
I got all the information out of these gentlemen that we could need; and then, to make everything complete, I asked them if a body could get hold of a little fruit and milk here and there, in case of necessity. [5]
The publication of the event prepared their friends, and precluded the necessity for reserve. [11]
The necessity of the conception of power as an explanation of historical events is best demonstrated by the universal historians and historians of culture themselves, for they professedly reject that conception but inevitably have recourse to it at every step. [2]
I further say that, as the war progresses, it appears to me, opinion and action, which were in great confusion at first, take shape and fall into more regular channels, so that the necessity for strong dealing with them gradually decreases. [7]
It seemed fantastic that this noble gentleman, this very type of the perfect soldier, with the brown face of a picaroon and an athletic valour of body, should become a preacher even in necessity. [11]
Actually he wished that the absolute necessity had presented itself before. [11]
The truth is that some support from Whigs is now a necessity with the Judge, and for this it is that the names of Clay and Webster are invoked. [7]
The problem is that regarding man as a subject of observation from whatever point of view--theological, historical, ethical, or philosophic--we find a general law of necessity to which he (like all that exists) is subject. [2]
The one thing that recalled the patriotic fervor everyone had displayed during the Emperor's stay was the call for contributions of men and money, a necessity that as soon as the promises had been made assumed a legal, official form and became unavoidable. [2]
He finally intimated that one guard would be sufficient to protect us, but that that one was an absolute necessity. [5]
The instructions say that "the necessity and propriety of the original concession of belligerency by Great Britain at the time it was made have been contested and are not admitted. [6]
Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and activity, Tushin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never occurred to him. [2]
Only, if one suffers admiration today, it becomes a necessity tomorrow. [4]
Only when the suffering becomes very intense, the whole being must of necessity yield to it. [10]
Let it be such that the labor and difficulty of evading it could only be justified in cases of greatest necessity. [7]
By virtue of such a system wealth was as inevitable as human necessity; and the thought of human necessity did not greatly bother me. [9]
The necessity of such a navy-yard, so furnished, at some suitable place upon the Atlantic seaboard has on repeated occasions been brought to the attention of Congress by the Navy Department, and is again presented in the report of the Secretary which accompanies this communication. [7]
Emerging from the street, she began to walk rapidly, the change from inaction to exercise bringing a certain relief, starting the working of her mind, arousing in her a realization of the necessity of being prepared for the meeting. [9]
What made it still more a long martyrdom was the necessity for bearing his cross in utter loneliness. [6]
All lamented the stern necessity which dictated the execution. [5]
Jesus had seldom spoken literally, and the truths he sought to impress upon the world had of necessity been clothed in figures and symbols,--for spiritual truths might be conveyed in no other way. [9]
I have never spoken a word beyond necessity to my father since. [9]
Only, when they spoke of the necessity of flight, he burst out again, declaring that the time had not yet come for such extreme measures. [10]
It was a sort of necessity. [7]
There was no sort of necessity for destroying it to organize these Territories. [7]
Get hold of some man in the North whose position and ability is such that he can make the support of your measure, whatever it may be, a Democratic party necessity, and the thing is done. [7]
They leave the small necessity of their next-door neighbor to the retailers, who are poorer in statistics and general facts, but richer in the every-day charities. [6]
Pretty soon he sighs and shakes his head; then sighs again, and says: "No, it wouldn't do--there ain't necessity enough for it. [5]
Shorter, with a sigh, acknowledged this necessity, and escorted Honora gallantly through the office and across the sidewalk to the waiting hansom. [9]
The necessity of showing every one a face radiant with the joy of victory would kill me. [10]
While I cannot shift the responsibility from myself, I hold that, as a general rule, the commander in the field is the better judge of the necessity in any particular case. [7]
On the contrary, she felt the necessity of being alone, to collect her thoughts and strive to dispel the clouds from her troubled soul. [10]
Perhaps a false sense of pride restrained me, but my duties held me all day in the field, and often into the night when there was curing to be done, or some other matters of necessity. [9]
That is to say, are not barbarism and vast regions of uncultivated land a necessity of healthful life on this globe? [4]
Subsequent events have satisfied me of its necessity. [7]
All the Masons sat down in their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of humility. [2]

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