Necessities

Examples

• As her once elastic walk had become deadened by time, so had her natural pride of life been hindered in its blooming by her necessities. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Worldly wise in hard and poor necessities, she was innocent in all things else. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It seemed like desecration, but then we had traveled far, and our necessities were urgent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Obviously, one of the first necessities towards such quantity production is extra speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• His daily subsistence would be proportioned to his daily necessities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Now the first and greatest of necessities is food, which is the condition of life and existence. Plato. The Republic.
• He was a mechanic; and, rendered unable to attend to the occupation which supplied his necessities, famine was added to his other miseries. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In returning to labour in this sequestered spot he had anticipated an escape from the chafing of social necessities; yet behold they were here also. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Am I trifling, here, with the necessities of my task? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But beside all this, the bulk of our people supported themselves by furnishing the necessities or conveniences of life to the rich and to each other. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• That it is apt to be hampered by material necessities or complicated by moral scruples? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Mr. Hale was the first to dare to speak of the necessities of the present moment. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They come out of necessities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But hast thou not necessities that I can care for? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is pointed out that Previous inventions failed--necessities for commercial success and accomplishment by Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The profits to manufacturers and dealers on these household necessities are very large, and the prudent consumer will take advantage of the directions here given. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Make a blind struggle luminous, drag an unconscious impulse into the open day, see that men are aware of their necessities, and the future is in a measure controlled. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Your necessities are greater than mine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The necessities of the state render government, upon most occasions willing to borrow upon terms extremely advantageous to the lender. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The true life is possible only in the degree in which the physical necessities are had without effort and without attention. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He had none of the qualities that subdue a man to the base necessities of political life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thus, in addition to the many necessities they had brought, there were also many luxuries. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I have no necessities apart from thee. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We will have our necessities together. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Thus we see that in the necessities and conveniences of life compressed air plays an important part. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Yet there are necessities in social life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The legal representative of the dead man was left to provide for the necessities of the interment, and the witnesses were free to retire. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I had what he wanted, steadiness and facility, and though my earnings were but small, they sufficed for our necessities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But the necessities of commerce could not be denied, and the following year the bill came up again, and was passed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Well, we must meet some disagreeables as necessities. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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