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Feeding of necessitous school children, that's what we were debating.

"Yet the cost of so formidable a journey would be far beyond this necessitous one's means."

He died in 1794, leaving his widow and family in necessitous circumstances.

A motion to include the word "necessitous" was defeated, but the school's aims were nevertheless charitable.

These, and such as these, a necessitous Patriotism snatches greedily, for want of better.

The rain, however, ah, necessitous, will hamper them all, hum?"

Such taxes, therefore, fall almost always upon a necessitous person, and must, therefore, be frequently very cruel and oppressive.

Thomas Carlyle calls him "a stalwart but necessitous Herr".

"Necessitous men are not free men."

The friend whom he had known under a shabby and necessitous guise had become a brilliant figure on the London Press.

His means were slender, but, though frequently necessitous, he felt happy in the life he had chosen, that of a wandering rhapsodist.

Prime among the reasons Hughes gave: Women received "the least pay" and were "ready victims of those who would take advantage of their necessitous circumstances."

It suppressed too all inferior debates, and bound them together by a necessitous affection, without giving them time to differ upon trifles.

In February, 1859, he issued a circular proposing "a scheme for a board of guardians for the relief of the necessitous foreign poor."

He seems to tax his brother Robert with employing necessitous and greedy Catalonians to administer the affairs of his kingdom.

The will makes reference only to Clementina and to Charlotte's desire that Clementina might be able to provide for "her necessitous relations".

The FGP foundation is a "necessitous circumstances" charity, disbursing funds to Australians affected by natural disasters, as required.

Because "necessitous men are not, truly speaking, free men," he said, "but, to answer a present exigency, will submit to any terms that the crafty may impose upon them".

In his will he also endowed the Fraser Homes at Colinton (Edinburgh) for 'authors or artists in necessitous circumstances'.

"Speaking of which, we spent some of your money on another railroad line in California," Hazard interjected, marriages between old rakes and necessitous young females a familiar tale.

Walter Raphael, donated £50 from his winnings to the Drogheda Memorial Fund, a charity which helped jockeys and trainers in "necessitous circumstances".

The professional man who gave a lower standard of service in necessitous cases, where his remuneration was little or nothing, would be regarded as an unworthy colleague by his professional brethren.

The lowest, least blessed fact one knows of, on which necessitous mortals have ever based themselves, seems to be the primitive one of Cannibalism: That I can devour Thee.

Calamy, to be distributed among the most indigent and necessitous families of them,' and the 'godly ministers' seldom appealed to her in vain for assistance in pecuniary difficulties.

The schools were founded with the aim of housing, feeding, clothing and educating the necessitous children of brethren "on the road" who met untimely death or became unable to earn their livelihood.