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558 examples of Necessity in a sentence

She collected her thoughts for one moment, and, strengthening herself by the feeling of present necessity, went in.
To complete her misery she felt that she was on the point of fainting, but the necessity of doing Julien a service restored her strength.
Madame de Renal realised her own imprudence: 'I am feverish,' she told her, 'and I think, a little light-headed; stay beside me.'Thoroughly awakened by the necessity of controlling herself, she felt less wretched; reason resumed the sway of which her state of drowsiness had deprived it.
The necessity to refrain from speaking to her of serious, reasonable matters, since they were on opposite sides, added, without his suspecting it, to the happiness that he owed to her and to the power which she was acquiring over him.
Overpowered by the necessity of venting his anger on something, he tore up the sheet on which this second anonymous letter was gummed, and strode rapidly away, feeling that he could not endure his wife's company.
He was advised to see much of his father, and complied with this painful necessity.
By way of reply, his wife drew him aside and explained to him the necessity of getting rid of Julien.
He had not been aroused at every moment from his radiant dreams by the cruel necessity of studying the motions of a base soul, and that in order to deceive it by hypocritical words or actions.
You have made me too familiar with a life of refinement, the vulgarity of those people would kill me.'Cruel necessity, with its hand of iron, bent Julien's will.
For this there is but one remedy: have recourse only to God, who has given you, to punish you for your presumption, this necessity of being hated; let your conduct be pure; that is the sole resource that I can see for you.
But she would gladly have redeemed at the cost of an eternity of suffering the cruel necessity to which she found herself committed.
Necessity of forming an armed party in France, otherwise the monarchical principle in the rest of Europe will not risk even those two campaigns.
As he was bidding the Marechale good night in the vestibule of the Opera: 'Bear in mind, Sir,' she said to him, 'that people must not love Napoleon when they love me; they may, at the most, accept him as a necessity imposed by Providence.
To yield to necessity, to go in fear of the law seemed to him an absurd thing and dishonouring to a man of his rank.
Forced by his daughter's letter, M. de La Mole saw the necessity of making up his mind: 'Well, here is the great question: has Julien's audacity gone the length of setting him to make love to my daughter, because he knows that I love her more than anything in the world, and that I have an income of a hundred thousand crowns?
Before the statute, there is nothing natural save the strength of the lion, or the wants of the creature who suffers from hunger, or cold; in a word, necessity ...No, the men whom we honour are merely rascals who have had the good fortune not to be caught red-handed.
It was impossible to remove his doubts as to whether this was the right decision, but this was outweighed by his belief in its necessity.
Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for thought, will restore the mental equilibrium."
As there was no earthly necessity for our getting up under another two hours at the very least, and our getting up at that time was an utter absurdity, it was only in keeping with the natural cussedness of things in general that we should both feel that lying down for five minutes more would be death to us.
And it would all have gone on being grand if he had not unfortunately, while looking round to enjoy the scenery, taken just one step more than there was any necessity for, and walked off the punt altogether.
Here Mr. -- complimented his companion on his fidelity and adroitness; explained the necessity of their communications being closed; and finally tendered the money.
Tired with the exercise of a day of unusual fatigue, and anxious to obtain a speedy shelter from the increasing violence of the storm, that now began to change its character to large drops of driving rain, the traveler determined, as a matter of necessity, to make an application for admission to the next dwelling that offered.
"General Stark took the Germans into custody," she answered, compressing her lip; "may not General Gates think the British too dangerous to go at large?""Oh! they were Germans, as you say," cried the colonel, excessively vexed at the necessity of explaining at all; "mere mercenary troops; but when the really British regiments come in question, you will see a very different result."
Harper was the last to appear; after taking a view of the state of the weather, he apologized to Mr. Wharton for the necessity that existed for his trespassing on his goodness for a longer time.
But of the war, and of his father, he seldom spoke and always from some very obvious necessity.
There was a manner about the trooper that would have made the omission of such a request easily forgiven by Mr. Wharton, but he was fairly entrapped by his own eagerness to conciliate, and it was useless to withhold a consent which he thought would probably be extorted; he therefore made the most of necessity, and gave such orders as would facilitate the wishes of Captain Lawton.
The necessity of a supply from the dominion of Dinah soon, however, afforded another respite, of which Lawton availed himself.
"We must submit to the necessity which governs us.
In his heart, he was a devoted loyalist; and when the blushing Frances had communicated to him the wishes of her lover, on their return from the American camp the preceding spring, the consent he had given, to her future union with a rebel, was as much extracted by the increasing necessity which existed for his obtaining republican support, as by any considerations for the happiness of his child.
"There is no necessity for your being uneasy, Mr. Birch; if the old man gets a few hours the start of you in the journey, you will be sure to follow him before noon to-morrow."
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