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  • Pete, a tiger-striped tom weighing fifteen pounds, is a well-known character around Garden City, famous for his pugnacity, which was the cause of his current hospitalization; a battle lost to a boxer dog had left him with wounds necessitating both stitches and antibiotics.†   (source)
  • But that would have necessitated telling his mother about the Dumpster incident in the first place.†   (source)
  • Many of the people in the ANC were restive, and in September, at a press conference, I said that the continuing violence might necessitate taking up arms once more.†   (source)
  • Not that this fact necessitated marriage in my book, but the wedding was required due to the delicate and tangled compromise Edward and I had made to finally get to this point, the brink of my transformation from mortal to immortal.†   (source)
  • In his era, even simple lacerations often left diabetics with savage infections that necessitated limb and digit amputations, a consequence of the disease's ravaging effect on circulation and immunity.†   (source)
  • They were in the third week of school, and Beth was still getting back into the flow of teaching again, which necessitated long hours in her small home office, updating lesson plans and correcting homework.†   (source)
  • This required a huge budget, which necessitated a giant turnout at the box office.†   (source)
  • There were professionals—those students who traveled a lot and had things like a commercial contract with Chap Stick that necessitated flying to the Swiss Alps on the random weekend.†   (source)
  • It was perhaps only a matter of time before they discovered the story of Sister Mary Joseph Praise, though it would probably necessitate a reporter traveling to Addis to unearth that tidbit.†   (source)
  • However, these circumstances have necessitated that we play both semi-final games tomorrow in a doubleheader.†   (source)
  • Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.†   (source)
  • He had to adjust his thoughts; he was unable to do so while driving, as his severe night blindness necessitated complete concentration on the road, and hiring a taxi or a driver was out of the question.†   (source)
  • As a wedding present, Jefferson gave the young couple 1,000 acres and twelve families of slaves, and helped in the eventual purchase of a nearby plantation for them called Edgehill—all of which necessitated an additional loan of several thousand dollars, this time from bankers in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • One day he was actually sitting on the porch when we pulled up, necessitating both an introduction and a conversation with Eli.†   (source)
  • But this would necessitate our letting a lot of lousy bureaucrats"-Dr. Ferris smiled with disarming frankness-"oh yes, we are as unpopular with one another as we are with you private citizens-it would necessitate our letting a lot of other bureaucrats in on the secret of Project X, which would be highly undesirable at this time.†   (source)
  • He wondered what would necessitate such a late meeting.†   (source)
  • And let's not insult the American people with the supposition that they will ever allow the long series of insidious measures that would necessitate the use of armed force.†   (source)
  • But Dr. Leale knows better than to attempt a bumpy carriage ride through Washington, D.C., particularly through panicked crowds that will necessitate the driver stopping and starting and turning quite suddenly.†   (source)
  • Rights of Victory Wulfgar leaned back in his chair at the head of the main table in the hastily constructed Mead Hall, his foot tapping nervously at the long delays necessitated by the demands of proper tradition.†   (source)
  • This necessitated visits to the property.†   (source)
  • This had necessitated a small bandage.†   (source)
  • The top one began, YOUR HONOR: I sincerely regret that pressing duties have necessitated my postponing immediate answer to your questions concerning the budget submitted to you 12 May 1966….†   (source)
  • "It will necessitate your leaving tonight," Halten replied.†   (source)
  • Little was adamant that few blooms be lost, necessitating quite a bit of twine as stems were pulled and tied, bent and rotated, into their proper place.†   (source)
  • Say, an automobile accident necessitating conversations with 'American' police and the resulting insurance forms that must be filled out-you can give yourself away if you appear too ignorant.†   (source)
  • Max had to investigate such a curious development, but it would necessitate crossing the dank water.†   (source)
  • Extraordinary times may necessitate exceptions, wouldn't you agree?†   (source)
  • A fire in their lodgings, perhaps, that necessitates their coming outside.†   (source)
  • The water had seeped under the duct tape and loosened the adhesive's grip on my skin, but the tape was wrapped around me three layers deep in places, which necessitated wiggling like a fish out of water.†   (source)
  • He wondered if the factory had a third shift, which would necessitate keeping the place brightly lit, even at night.†   (source)
  • Caswell assumed they were all crack mathematicians, and Mr. Vincenti's homework often necessitated all-nighters.†   (source)
  • The other three, implied and necessitated by that first, are EskVar (Beginning/ Ending), IssaInu (Movement/Stillness), and VahnItr (Existence/Nonexistence).†   (source)
  • Comfort on such a night would necessitate a sizable fire, and the witch's talk of goblin tribes made him uneasy about drawing any attention to himself in the wilderness.†   (source)
  • Upon awakening she found she had overslept, necessitating haste upon her part.†   (source)
  • There was no road over this endless plain, and the level stretches were cut up, sometimes necessitating the unloading and reloading of the wagons.†   (source)
  • It so happened that half of this was in one direction and half in another, necessitating a change of cars; the law required that transfers be given at all intersecting points, but the railway corporation had gotten round this by arranging a pretense at separate ownership.†   (source)
  • The old-fashioned fronts of these houses, which had older than old-fashioned backs, rose sheer from the pavement, into which the bow windows protruded like bastions, necessitating a pleasing chassez-dechassez movement to the time-pressed pedestrian at every few yards.†   (source)
  • The old rooms, it is true, were not much higher than the between-decks of a frigate, necessitating a sinking in the floor under the new clock-case she brought from the inn, and the removal of the handsome brass knobs on its head, before there was height for it to stand; but, such as the rooms were, there were plenty of them, and the place was endeared to her by every early recollection.†   (source)
  • The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur-Mer; and that fearing that he might be recaptured,— which eventually happened—he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of…†   (source)
  • For, to endow a college would necessitate the suppression of families altogether.†   (source)
  • Such conferences would necessitate a journey of nearly four thousand miles.†   (source)
  • Also, it seemed likely that all sorts of new problems would arise and necessitate at least some reorganization of the administrative system.†   (source)
  • He also admitted that you had some interest in a mill or mills (we did not press him on this, being most upset at this information which was news to us) that necessitated your riding about alone, or attended by a ruffian who, Captain Butler assures us, is a murderer.†   (source)
  • Immediately after lunch there arrived a delicate, difficult piece of work which would take several hours and necessitated putting everything else aside.†   (source)
  • That necessitated more trouble with directories and tubes.†   (source)
  • But the man hurried away, at a pace that would have necessitated running to catch him.†   (source)
  • The chorus necessitated some grotesque waddlings supposed to be an imitation of a plantation darkey, under the influence, probably, of music and the moon.†   (source)
  • However, on looking round to the bed she brightened, for she saw that Jude was apparently sleeping, though he was not in the usual half-elevated posture necessitated by his cough.†   (source)
  • The system might at first necessitate a resort to some of the very shifts and expedients from which she intended it should free her; but she felt sure that in a short time she would be able to play the game in her own way.†   (source)
  • This necessitated my climbing the shears, which I did twice, before I finished guying it fore and aft and to either side.†   (source)
  • The same unworldliness was what had necessitated Angel's getting a living as a farmer, and would probably keep his brothers in the position of poor parsons for the term of their activities; yet Angel admired it none the less.†   (source)
  • There were draws which necessitated a search for a crossing, and areas of broken rock which had to be rounded, and steep flat mesas rising in the path, and strips of deep sand and canyons impassable for long distances.†   (source)
  • The point of the present story turning on the hidden nature of the Master-at-arms has necessitated this chapter.†   (source)
  • —necessitates a certain retirement.†   (source)
  • It looked as if the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate very prompt and energetic measures on my part.†   (source)
  • The pewter on the fine old dressers, the brass above the gigantic hearth, shone like silver and gold—the red-tiled floor was as brilliant as the scarlet geranium on the window sill—this meant that his servants were good and plentiful, that the custom was constant, and of that order which necessitated the keeping up of the coffee-room to a high standard of elegance and order.†   (source)
  • In the daytime there was riding from place to place, and the gun practice to which something drove him, and other tasks that at least necessitated action, at night, before he won sleep, there was strife in his soul.†   (source)
  • Then Jurgis would try to hammer, and hit his fingers because the hammer was too small, and get mad because Ona had refused to let him pay fifteen cents more and get a bigger hammer; and Ona would be invited to try it herself, and hurt her thumb, and cry out, which necessitated the thumb's being kissed by Jurgis.†   (source)
  • Her plan, born in one lightning-like flash of thought, necessitated the careful wording of telegrams to Washington, to New York, to San Antonio.†   (source)
  • Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless; she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her—that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors.†   (source)
  • This halt occurred early, before sunset, and had been necessitated by the fact that Kells was fainting.†   (source)
  • The water and the general dampness and the heat of the room seemed obviously to necessitate some such dressing as this.†   (source)
  • "Ah, you might make me late "—meaning that the touch of a non-Hindu would necessitate another bath; the words were spoken without moral heat.†   (source)
  • Besides he had orders to report at seven the next morning, and going home would necessitate his rising at an unholy and disagreeable hour.†   (source)
  • His instinct was to leave them to themselves and go home, but he had not his hat and coat, and it would necessitate endless explanations.†   (source)
  • When they arrived at the descent, which necessitated slow and careful riding, she was hot and tingling and breathless, worked by the action into an exuberance of pleasure.†   (source)
  • Therefore he gave her tasks that necessitated her going often to the cave where he had stored his packs.†   (source)
  • It might be true, as he said, that an unescapable invitation had come up which necessitated all this.†   (source)
  • Leonard Upjohn described Kennington with that restrained humour which a strict adherence to the vocabulary of Sir Thomas Browne necessitated.†   (source)
  • And through the open flies of several tents, glimpses of individuals—Sondra, Bertine, Wynette and others—busy about toilets necessitated by the recent swim.†   (source)
  • The short climb, more severe on beast than on man, necessitated a rest on the level above, and during this he scanned the wide purple reaches of slope.†   (source)
  • Hide thieves were numbered among these outfits, and this necessitated the consolidation of camps and the need for one or more men to be left on guard.†   (source)
  • It was farther to camp than she thought and some parts of the trail necessitated care in the gathering twilight.†   (source)
  • On this occasion the preparations were of a more elaborate nature than usual, owing to the fact that for the past four days Mr. Samuel Griffiths, the husband and father, had been absent attending a conference of shirt and collar manufacturers in Chicago, price-cutting by upstart rivals in the west having necessitated compromise and adjustment by those who manufactured in the east.†   (source)
  • But just about this time there was a rush of orders, which necessitated, as both Whiggam and Liggett advised, Clyde taking on a few extra "try-out" girls who were willing to work for the very little they could earn at the current piece work rate until they had mastered the technique, when of course they would be able to earn more.†   (source)
  • That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly due and payable.†   (source)
  • Just so with whaling, which necessitates a three-years' housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers.†   (source)
  • If your business necessitated your seeing "the House," you were put into a species of Condemned Hold at the back, where you meditated on a misspent life, until the House came with its hands in its pockets, and you could hardly blink at it in the dismal twilight.†   (source)
  • Owing to the great hurry necessitated by the far-gone state of some of the flock, Gabriel missed his aim in one case, and in one only—striking wide of the mark, and inflicting a mortal blow at once upon the suffering ewe.†   (source)
  • Anna had at first avoided as far as she could Princess Tverskaya's world, because it necessitated an expenditure beyond her means, and besides in her heart she preferred the first circle.†   (source)
  • We not require the dull society Of your necessitated temperance, Or that unnatural stupidity That knows nor joy nor sorrow; nor your forc'd Falsely exalted passive fortitude Above the active.†   (source)
  • But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat; from the impalpable suit which no man alive can understand, the time for that being long gone by, it has become a gloomy relief to turn to the palpable figure of the friend who would have saved him from this ruin and make HIM his enemy.†   (source)
  • Joe threw his eye over them, and pronounced that the job would necessitate the lighting of his forge fire, and would take nearer two hours than one, "Will it?†   (source)
  • …submitting, as a daily governess, to such caprices and indignities as women (with daughters too) too often love to inflict upon their own sex when they serve in such capacities, as though in jealousy of the superior intelligence which they are necessitated to employ,—indignities, in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred, heaped upon persons immeasurably and incalculably their betters, but outweighing in comparison any that the most heartless blackleg would put upon his groom—that for…†   (source)
  • The cultivation of the fine arts appeared to necessitate, to her mind, a great deal of byplay, a great standing off with folded arms and head drooping from side to side, stroking of a dimpled chin with a dimpled hand, sighing and frowning and patting of the foot, fumbling in disordered tresses for wandering hair-pins.†   (source)
  • If your disapproval of it should render you unwilling to discharge such business as it necessitates, I am sorry for it, and must seek other aid.†   (source)
  • …the drive of yesterday; but, after all, I ought not to blame you for the misconduct of your horses, more especially as it procured me the pleasure of an introduction to the Count of Monte Cristo,—and certainly that illustrious personage, apart from the millions he is said to be so very anxious to dispose of, seemed to me one of those curiously interesting problems I, for one, delight in solving at any risk, even if it were to necessitate another drive to the Bois behind your horses.†   (source)
  • Time, sticking to him, passed him on into Bounderby's Bank, made him an inmate of Bounderby's house, necessitated the purchase of his first razor, and exercised him diligently in his calculations relative to number one.†   (source)
  • To depend upon her and her little concerns wholly to see you through will necessitate, remember, your really 'doing' her."†   (source)
  • Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.†   (source)
  • On leaving the paternal chamber, the young man found his mother, who was waiting for him with the famous recipe of which the counsels we have just repeated would necessitate frequent employment.†   (source)
  • But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.†   (source)
  • Rachael made the tea (so large a party necessitated the borrowing of a cup), and the visitor enjoyed it mightily.†   (source)
  • The preparations for his departure, and the conscientious arrangement for him of all the details and results of their joint business, had necessitated labour within a short compass of time, which had occupied Clennam day and night.†   (source)
  • Troy had felt, in his transient way, hundreds of times, that he could not envy other people their condition, because the possession of that condition would have necessitated a different personality, when he desired no other than his own.†   (source)
  • The work was not heavy, but it had been much hindered on account of the frequent pauses necessitated by exclamations of surprise at the event, of which the good woman had been briefly informed by letter a few hours earlier.†   (source)
  • Although everything he brought necessitated carriage at his own back, he had secreted among his tools a few of Elizabeth-Jane's cast-off belongings, in the shape of gloves, shoes, a scrap of her handwriting, and the like, and in his pocket he carried a curl of her hair.†   (source)
  • The allusion to the waif and waif-poles in the last chapter but one, necessitates some account of the laws and regulations of the whale fishery, of which the waif may be deemed the grand symbol and badge.†   (source)
  • The recall signals were placed in the rigging; darkness came on; and forced to pick up her three far to windward boats—ere going in quest of the fourth one in the precisely opposite direction—the ship had not only been necessitated to leave that boat to its fate till near midnight, but, for the time, to increase her distance from it.†   (source)
  • But to such unresting vigilance over their dangerous allies was this small band of whites necessitated, both by night and by day, and so extreme was the hard work they underwent, that upon the vessel being ready again for sea, they were in such a weakened condition that the captain durst not put off with them in so heavy a vessel.†   (source)
  • By NECESSITATING a change of men, in the first office of the nation, it would necessitate a mutability of measures.†   (source)
  • Now and again, one would suggest stopping for a drink, which necessitated my stopping as well, since Thistle carried the water bottles.†   (source)
  • The separate States or confederacies would be necessitated by mutual jealousy to avoid the temptations to that kind of trade by the lowness of their duties.†   (source)
  • For which reason, we hope, that learned faculty, for whom we have so profound a respect, will pardon us the violent hands we have been necessitated to lay on several words and phrases, which of right belong to them, and without which our descriptions must have been often unintelligible.†   (source)
  • For as a Child wants the judgement to dissent from counsell given him, and is thereby necessitated to take the advise of them, or him, to whom he is committed: So an Assembly wanteth the liberty, to dissent from the counsell of the major part, be it good, or bad.†   (source)
  • I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand; Man should be seduced, And flattered out of all, believing lies Against his Maker; no decree of mine Concurring to necessitate his fall, Or touch with lightest moment of impulse His free will, to her own inclining left In even scale.†   (source)
  • Fourthly, in Deliberations that ought to be kept secret, (whereof there be many occasions in Publique Businesse,) the Counsells of many, and especially in Assemblies, are dangerous; And therefore great Assemblies are necessitated to commit such affaires to lesser numbers, and of such persons as are most versed, and in whose fidelity they have most confidence.†   (source)
  • The physicians, therefore, finding themselves anticipated in everything they ordered, were at a loss how to apply that portion of time which it is usual and decent to remain for their fee, and were therefore necessitated to find some subject or other for discourse; and what could more naturally present itself than that before mentioned?†   (source)
  • God made thee perfect, not immutable; And good he made thee, but to persevere He left it in thy power; ordained thy will By nature free, not over-ruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity: Our voluntary service he requires, Not our necessitated; such with him Finds no acceptance, nor can find; for how Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve Willing or no, who will but what they must By destiny, and can no other choose?†   (source)
  • By NECESSITATING a change of men, in the first office of the nation, it would necessitate a mutability of measures.†   (source)
  • To the People of the State of New York: THAT there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.†   (source)
  • They would, at the same time, be necessitated to strengthen the executive arm of government, in doing which their constitutions would acquire a progressive direction toward monarchy.†   (source)
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