expedient

• By this expedient was the British chief enabled to secure a safe conduct for his American adherents." —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
• The first considerable work, for which this expedient was employed, is said to have been Dryden's Virgil[119]; and it had been tried again with great success when the Tatlers were collected into volumes There was reason to believe that Pope's attempt would be successful. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• He proposed to me a desperate expedient, and I, young and inexperienced as I was, and believing that it would be for our mutual happiness, consented We were to be married privately, but, as your father told me, the marriage would not be legal, as we could not have the necessary papers, and should even have to be married under assumed names, and in another country. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• It was believed--and events in the main confirm the belief--that he contemplated a new expedient, the use of what still remained of the financial power of the Bank to produce deliberate scarcity and distress, in the hope that a reaction against the President's policy would result. —  A History of the United States
• He then tried another expedient, and very few lawyers indeed are strong enough to do this: he would accept no case until the fee was paid in advance. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

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