Nor could any evidence of the antiquity of the institution be clearer than its existence in a form, the details of which have had to be so boldly modified under the pressure of the Exigencies of the later time.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
But you knew him; you knew how a fatal indolence, a shrinking horror of whatever demanded action or energy overcame all his better nature, and made him as useless to all the Exigencies of life as one whose heart was eaten up by selfishness.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Its whole bent is to exempt as much as possible of life from authoritative restraint, and to give as much scope as Exigencies will allow to the play of individuality.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae