When they were out on the plains camping and living as best they could, he felt it to be the natural consequence of their Necessities when he saw her washing their clothes and making the best of their difficulties by doing hard things with her own hands, but now that they were living in a civilized way, he could not bear to see her, or her mother, doing the rough work.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
To get any of them seemed hopeless, but our appalling Necessities forced us onward.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
A labourer works 12 hours a day because he cannot work longer and work permanently and well, and he gets three shillings a day of wages, because three shillings will buy him the Necessities he requires.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae