Nothing but dire necessity had induced him to part with the talisman.

We had, however, no intention of going out unless for dire necessity.

Perhaps the Light, too, grieved the dire necessity of its actions.

The Church, dear lady, does indeed provide alleviation in cases of dire necessity.

It meant there was no dire necessity of relinquishing that search.

A dire necessity compelled him to withdraw from that pure and gracious influence.

But nothing short of dire necessity ever takes a Villager uptown.

He knew that from some dire necessity Joyce was calling for his aid.

With all my repugnance to cheating, I yielded to dire necessity.

We, in situations of dire necessity, eat our own fellows.

So irregular a proceeding could only be excused by dire necessity and by success.

A novel drug needs to be kept for cases of dire necessity, not sold widely.

He could never grow used to the taking of human life, even in dire necessity.

And now, in this dire necessity for knowledge, there seemed no way of getting it.

Truth-telling among Arabs becomes a dire necessity to Europeans.

Provisions began to fail, and dire necessity drove him to perilous measures for obtaining supplies.