And yielding all thought of self she had braced every faculty to accomplish the holy task of which she alone felt the urgency.

The reasons upon which that recommendation was founded subsist in all their force and have acquired additional urgency since that time.

He frequently telegraphed to the United States figures showing the tonnage of merchant ships being sunk week by week in order to impress on the Navy Department and Government the great urgency of the situation.

He has become increasingly reiterative, too,a quality easily attained by those who have but one message, in this case a message of warning and exhortation, and are feverishly anxious to brand its urgency upon the hearts of their fellow-men.

Bismarck admitted that he was acting unconstitutionally, but claimed the urgency of public necessity.

A Committee of Permanency was formed from amongst it, and invested with the authority of decreeing "urgency" in the name of all the Left, of concentrating all news, information, directions, instructions, resources, orders.

I knew Sturt too well to doubt the urgency he represented, and in spite of lame legs, sore backs, &c. I managed to bring all hands safe into Badjghar late on the evening of the 2d of August.

[o]: a device by which they thought to elude the present urgency of the king's demand, yet reserve to themselves, on a favourable opportunity, the power of resuming all their pretensions.

Not Anne Whitfield herself exhibits more explicitly the urgency of the life force, the will to wed. Mr. OWEN NARES, who has a following more than sufficient to justify his recent assumption of management, gave a very attractive and indeed, within the limits imposed by the piece, a distinguished performance as the proud and hungry poet.

In view of all this and bearing in mind the present urgency of the matter, it is necessary for that government to establish and publish its policy.

" "Your honorable impatience shall be gratified, Signor Soranzo: for, foreseeing the urgency of the case, my colleague, the worthy senator who is joined with us in this high duty, and myself, have already issued the commands necessary to that object.

She could not gainsay the urgency of the nuncio.

I would like to do my best, but I think if you gave me timeIs there any great urgency?

People always realize that a man has a human value, and that, however great the urgency of the sex side of him, he still is a human being, he still has his value in the world, even supposing that he should live and die celibate.

I guessed urgency, otherwise Rebecca would have delegated Lucy.

A sickening dread came upon him, and the cold perspiration broke out in heavy drops upon his forehead; nor was he more composed, when he heard the increased urgency and agony of entreaty, with which Rose implored them not to leave her for a moment.

Maj. Sitgraves was a brave man, who had only to hear the story brought to him by the honest cowboy to understand the urgency of the case.

Vercingetorix adjured them also to burn Avaricum (Bourges), their capital; but they refused, and the capture of Avaricum, though gallantly defended, justified the urgency of Vercingetorix, seeing that it was an important success for Caesar and a serious blow for the Gauls.

He easily knew a sick call by the haste with which they set out, and he knew its urgency by their going with the messenger.

And behind it, he knew, lay the stupendous urgency and drive of some power that held the entire universe in its pulses as easily as the ocean holds a shoal of minnows....

The brougham of Mrs. Conyers, flashing in the sun, was being driven toward the housewas being driven rapidly, as though speed meant an urgency.

" Father Antonio was puzzled how to meet this direct urgency of his sister.

Nero, always weak, had long regarded his mother with real terror and disgust, and he scarcely needed the urgency of constant application to make him long to get rid of her.

After a few moments of bitter anguish, he perceived the urgency of making his sister acquainted with the truth as speedily as possible.

His call for the house near Queen Anne's Gate had now been in for more than forty minutes; in that interval he had no less than three times pleaded its urgency to the trunk-line operator.