requisition

• This requisition is as much more important, and its violation as much more disastrous to woman than to man, as her social faculties are stronger than his 16. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• Accompanying the requisition was an indictment found against them in Pennsylvania in March, 1865, for the crime for which their rendition was demanded. —  Fifty Years of Public Service
• Every topic which could exalt or depress either was put in requisition, and office-holders and office-seekers became anxious and alert In July, 1821, at the request of the citizens of Washington, Mr. Adams delivered an address on the anniversary of American Independence. —  Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
• In order to trace them, Jeanne put all her powers in requisition--she preferred being able to watch over her own secret--and her disappointment was great when all her agents returned announcing a failure. —  The Queen's Necklace
• Williams instantly complied with the requisition, and Neville, then turning his indignant eyes on the horror-struct Bellingham, exclaimed--"I trusted thee with my life, my fortune, and my honour--I supplicated thy aid--I depended on thy integrity, on our alliance in blood, on a friendship formed in our boy-hood, on a thousand instances of kindness which I have shown thee.--Thou stolest from me a pearl, rich as an empire, threwest at me the worthless shell, and then badest thy plundered brother be grateful for thy mercy. —  The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel

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