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anything necessary or required for a particular purpose- a place where the requisites of water, food, and shelter can be obtained
- To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.Oscar Wilde
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
- "We have not the requisite data," chimed in the professor, and he went back to his argument.Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
- The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey
- Without money—or the requisite sum, at least—she enjoyed the luxuries which money could buy.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- Who had the authority to do blasting without filing the requisite public notice?David Baldacci -- Zero Day
- Difficulties had arisen in the construction of this machine, simple as it was; requisites had been found wanting, and messages had had to go and return.Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
- Such caution is requisite in anyone who stands in the position of mentor to the public taste.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- For the powers that everyone seems to agree should be vested in the Union cannot be safely entrusted to a body that is not under every requisite control.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- Not my fault!' and to pass on before the instant had elapsed which was requisite to his recovery of the realities about him.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- Settembrini confessed coolly that he lacked the requisite organ for this murderous mysticism and that he did not miss it at all.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- They'd managed to get it the requisite "one hundred yards in a figure eight" that was the standard for all sorts of silly little contests.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- She was such a perfect jeune fille, and one couldn't make of a jeune fille the enquiry requisite for throwing light on such a point.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- And he arranged the requisite rites and sacrifices.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- I inflated all twelve cones with air and I filled each buoyancy chamber with the requisite ten litres of sea water.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- Tess sat up getting on with some little requisites, lest the few remaining days should not afford sufficient time.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- "No," said Prof, "aside from finding an actor of requisite character—one who would not decide to be Napoleon—we can't wait.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- To set up their housekeeping, nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
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