The laird did make haste, smiling at the Exigence of his visitor.
"Warlock o' Glenwarlock"
George MacDonald
That the effort may bear a proportion to the Exigence, it is fit it should be known,-known in its quality, in its extent, and in all the circumstances which attend it.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
The metrical or executive experiment attempted and carried through in 'Locrine' would have been improper to any but a purely and wholly romantic play or poem: I do not think that the life of human character or the lifelikeness of dramatic dialogue has suffered from the bondage of rhyme or has been sacrificed to the Exigence of metre.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne