How To Use Needful In A Sentence

Moreover, it is expressly added that if the day before the Passover falls on a Sabbath, one may in this manner purchase a Paschal lamb, and, presumably, all else that is needful for the feast.
Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
With that object in view, therefore, it will be needful to devise suitable legislative enactments to protect our oyster fisheries and to foster ostreiculture at the same time. The Art of Living in Australia
_ For this it is needful to halt bravely at the surface, at the fold, at the skin, to worship appearance, and to believe in forms, tones, words, and the whole _Olympus of appearance_! The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
Even when carrying out needful tasks, do not let your intellect be idle but keep it meditating inwardly and praying.

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The section of society most needful of such guidance is the young male.
Some necessary change of raiment, and a very few pieces of gold, were all which he thought it needful to withdraw from the general stock; the rest of the baggage and money he left with the sumpter-horse, which he concluded his father might need, in order to sustain his character as an English trader. Anne of Geierstein
Finally, to avoid any further embarrassment, Aryan took out his credit card and did the needful.
provided them with all things needful
The roads are also needful for safe delivery of agricultural inputs to the small-scale farmers themselves.
I always ask myself who can still read such books, and how needful it is to read them so as not to lose touch.
In another room, I heard the little wail of the child; and the wail of the child waked my wife back into this life, so that her hands fluttered white and desperately needful upon the coverlid. The Night Land
P.S. No name needful, for you will not be astray about the hand. Tales and Novels — Volume 04
Ye have large and airy apprehensions of temporal things, which ye call needful, and ye cannot behold eternal things. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
If the nation resolved to do all these needful things, by the end of 2005 we would not only be ringing in the New Year but ringing out for joy for the whole nation.
Food, clothing and shelter are needful for the maintenance of health.
All this preamble was needful to explain to you that for the future my position in life will be such as a man needs if he wants to play the great game of pitch-and-toss. A Marriage Contract
The Antaean treatment is needful for terrestrials, unless they would dwindle. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
To effect the separation it was needful that the particle size was more or less the same.
Apparently they obtain the needful proteid and fat from the beans; while the coarse once-milled rice furnishes them with starch, gluten, and mineral salts, etc. No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes
It may well be that what we are most needful of presently is neither more wars nor more laws, but more prudence in the making ofboth. The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
He was packing a supply of light needfuls, of which the lumbermen had unexpectedly run short, and he was pressing forward in haste to avoid The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life
Almost every comfort we have nowadays in nursing was absent from the beginning, and toward the last the hospitals were unspeakably lacking in needfuls. Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
Besides, we have left them a plentiful supply of needfuls, and our trading with them has been fair and generous. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
Now a commonplace person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
Proclaiming a National Fast Day in 1863, he suggested, in full prophetic voice, that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People. . . The Chosen Peoples
Then to make the sight perfect, these things are needful, that is to wit, the cause efficient, the limb of the eye convenient to the thing that shall be seen, the air that bringeth the likeness to the eye, and taking heed, and easy moving. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
Forbearance, though it be no acquittance, is sometimes a piece of needful and laudable charity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
This classy cast is capable of expressing everything needful by conventional singing alone. Times, Sunday Times
The department of Archaeological Survey of India was just a call away from the Estate department officials but the latter did not take pains to do what was needful and prudent.
The game was just two minutes old when Hawks were lured offside under their own posts and Bernard Hennessey did the needful.
Gavotte said he suspected they were short of "needfuls," so he had filled his pockets with coffee and sugar, took in a bottle some of the milk I brought for Baby, and his own flask of whiskey, without which he never travels. Letters of a Woman Homesteader
All comes to pass in the blackest depths of the crowd, whose agglomeration, growing denser and denser, produces the temperature needful for this exudation, which is the privilege of the youngest bees. The Life of the Bee
My own thinking is that he's not so much in need of a keep fit campaign as he's needful of an outlet for all that energy.
Nevertheless to remain in the flesh needful for you.
Hinglish may be catching, but it could be a while before a British man says to his wife in the morning: ‘Darling, can you prepone (bring forward) my meeting with the bank manager or ask my secretary to do the needful?’
This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
But with a 16 year experience of holding those scissors and combs, Sandrine was sure that a bit of layering will do the needful.
I wonder how many of us develop a kind of addiction to a spiritual feeling, a spiritual infatuation with God, a beautiful thing, a needful thing, but a thing that is not the real point.
It had been moved over the Great Lakes and the rails to what they call a blast furnace, the technological name of which being The College of Needful Knocks for Red Mud. The University of Hard Knocks
I have calls to make, and do not wish to detain you for longer than is needful.
Even Homer seems to feel that philosophy is at last a needful discipline, that the abstract thought must be taken from its concrete wrappage, that the Universal must be freed from the Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
And because our ships be freighted by the great, it shalbe very needful that you do appoynt certaine to see the romaging of the ships, and to giue the master or Boatswaine, or him that will take vpon him to romage, a good reward for his labour to see the goods well romaged. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
All things good and needful will be given their proper attention at the appropriate time. Christianity Today
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
Spin on cheerly, little daughter, till your needful task is done, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
The ancients, who by many are thought best to have understood human nature, did not think tears unmanful, or disgraceful to a man of true fortitude; as might be amply shewn, if needful. A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour��s Miracles: viz. The Raising of Jairus��s daughter, The Widow of Naim��s son, and Lazarus.
Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
The one thing needful is certainly meant of that which Mary made her choice -- sitting at Christ's feet, to hear his word. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
Beautiful slaves, silked for a man's pleasure, perfumed for his delight, eager, needful, helplessly responsive, trained to please in a thousand modalities? Magicians of Gor
Hopefully, the Chief Minister would do the needful at the right time, he said, throwing a sideways glance at a smiling Mr. Antony.
We must give Webster all the thunder-and-lightning circulars and advertising enginery that is needful. Mark Twain
The section of society most needful of such guidance is the young male.
He does the needful by giving the newborn a drop of honey.
Charmion stayed in London to hurry up tradesmen, and make uninteresting purchases of pots and pans, and dusters and door scrapers, and the other needfuls which every house must have, but which are so dull to buy. The Lady of the Basement Flat
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
Brennan did the needful and so no one lost face in this domestic skirmish.
So now our tinderbox, and cauldron, and roasting fork, and bowls - all of these needful and precious things for our journeying - would lose their importance and become no more than what they were.
While many view the death penalty as a harsh and irrevocable step, they also hold that a life sentence would do the needful: it would protect society from the consequences of the criminal's destructive acts.
Always seen that they require of him that is needful and behoveful. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
No other substance has this array of needful properties. Preventing Heart Disease
Keeping needfully wide of the broad, claret-bespotted swath in the snow, the party started trailing back. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
She's as plump as needful, and has a good udderful of milk besides. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
There was a narrow passage or entrie, as often we see reserved betweene two houses, for eithers benefit to such a needfull place; and boards loosely lay upon the joynts, which such as were acquainted withall, could easily avoide any perille in passing to or from the stoole. The Decameron
By entering this nothingness, which is the constitutive risk of already dwelling on the earth - call it the burden of consciousness or the task of history - we take up the needfulness of futurity itself.
At this stage - and for less money - I'm prepared to take the job and hire six graduates from Napier and Heriot Watt Universities to do the needful.
It meant they were just sick of this constant idea that the one thing needful is to put more people in the West -- and more people, and yet more people. The Wheat Situation
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
What will happen when the various divisions of this vast army of officials, united by interests common to officialism—the interests of the regulators versus those of the regulated—have at their command whatever force is needful to suppress insubordination and act as "saviours of society? Communist Economic Policy: Stalinism or the Red Army?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
There was a narrow passage or entrie, as often we see reserved betweene two houses, for eithers benefit to such a needfull place; and boards loosely lay upon the joynts, which such as were acquainted withall, could easily avoide any perille in passing to or from the stoole. The Decameron
Then, again, the strange successive fashions in this same unnatural, unneedful depilation; look at the vagaries of young France: not to descend also to savage men, and their clumsy shell-scrapings; and to devote but little time to the voluminous topic of wigs, male and female, cavalier and caxon, Marlborough and monstrous maccaroni -- from the plaited An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
Could your columnal time not be better spent going after, say, Apple, or Obama, or maybe a thoughtful screed about the SOPA blackout and the future of Net protocols in mainstream economic bifurcations affecting needful stimuli of egalitarian legalities? Mark Morford: Oh My God, America, Please Do Not Eat This
I forgot things, never mind what, for I must have some business o 'my own or I wouldn't seem to belong to myself; and so I've got to trapes round considerable, -- money matters and the likes, -- and folks a'n't always ready for you to the minute; therefore count on more time than what's needful, say I. The Story of Kennett
Wanting somebody else should tell them what to do, and take care of their needfuls, and protect them not just against their fellow men but against themselves? Trader To The Stars
Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
Nevertheless to remain in the flesh needful for you.
Darsie was glad, too, in quite an open, unconcealed fashion, when a legacy of a few thousand pounds lifted a little of the strain from her father's busy shoulders, made it possible to send Harry and Russell to a good boarding-school, continue Clemence's beloved music lessons, and provide many needfuls for household use. A College Girl
The proposed minimum wage boost would hurt the very ones who are most needful of jobs - the poor.
[Page 77] collecting and arranging for the display of an exhibit which shall show to the best advantage, the material resources and varied fields of labor of the women of all nations, to the auxiliary is confided the important task of calling together a series of congresses during 1893, which shall not only demonstrate what woman has done in the lines of mental and spiritual work, and in the sunny field of letters, but the public discussion of practical subjects by trained thinkers will uplift the masses and open the way to a better understanding of many facts needful to the housekeeper, the educator and the philanthropist. Three Girls in a Flat
But unfortunately, society has re - defined marriage to be one - to - one pendent and needful relationship between two people.
In that posture, he, after God, saved the said ark from danger, for with his legs he gave it the brangle that was needful, and with his foot turned it whither he pleased, as a ship answereth her rudder. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring more than was needful among some of the pestilent sect of Quakers — a people who own neither priest nor king, nor civil magistrate, nor the fabric of our law, and will not depone either IN Redgauntlet
The section of society most needful of such guidance is the young male.
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
Remember, the devil rolls into a small New England town and opens up an antique store, and he seems to know what that special needful thing is that each and every person wants.
What does Russia do in the next decade, when it's predicted that over 40% of their conscripts will be avowed muslim youth, if they ever find it needfull to stand against another Muslim state? Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor"
The artefactual memories of pottery, the bodily memories of tattoos, and the spatial memories of lines dividing cultivated fields boast little obvious explanatory power, seeming to survive more as accidental or passive traces of rural women's workaday routines than as conscious records of experience, as "histories" holding remembrance in the needful grip of the present day. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
It is not conceivable that his partial conformity to the divine law had not made him to differ from those who had allowedly disregarded it -- that his character was as bad as theirs -- though he soon made it evident that the one thing needful was not found upon him. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
He reports that many Americans, however, tend to see the ‘war on terror’ as needful, legitimate, necessary.
To effect the separation it was needful that the particle size was more or less the same.
And if now, in the inevitable reflux, the BNP can do some dirty but needful work contributary to breaking the citadels of the lunatic British nomenklatura, then more power to them. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
With disarming frankness, she told how she believed her daughter was too trusting with other people, giving too much of herself when ‘she herself was needful of affection and understanding’.
Methinks it must have been a precursive vapour of the madness that afterwards infolded me, for I know well that there is not one called Death, that he is but a word needful to the weakness of human thought and the poverty of human speech; that he is a no-being, and but a change from that which is. Thomas Wingfold, Curate
Even had he the benefit of the scaffolding erected behind Firhill's western end, it is doubtful whether he would have been able to do the needful.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russell Lowell
Mary was a good Christian and still earnestly seeking the one thing needful, which is full salvation, or holiness of heart and life. The Theology of Holiness
It was hardly needful for Katy to answer with her lips a question to which her tell-tale cheeks had made instant reply.
needfuls," so he had filled his pockets with coffee and sugar, took in Letters of a Woman Homesteader
And this coming out of a good nest is recognized as, of all things, needfulest to give the strength which enables people to be good-humored; and thus you have "debonnaire" forming the third word of the group, with Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
But in order to give a religious fenftion to a fecial virtue, the duty of vifiting the fatherless and widow in their afHi£tion is in - feparably attached to the difficult and felf-denying injiinftion of keep - ing Ourfelves unfpotted from the woilfiU This adjunct is the more needful, as many are apt to make a kind of moral commutation, and. to allow themfelvcs fo much pleafure in exchange for fo much charity. Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society
His body pressed atop mine so possessively; so needful and wanting.
But if you don't get that primitive, needful howl out of your system you're missing something vital to the human experience.
Hence the State may not deprive the family of its right to educate and instruct the children, but must simply lend its assistance by supplying, wheneer needful, opportunities for the better accomplishment of this duty. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
The unconvincing swagger of maturity has been the pretend independence of a adolescent: a strained relationship with the parent country: resentful but at the same time needful.
If the plan does not pay, what then? only a part of the money can be lost; and to have given that to an hospital or an almshouse would have been called praiseworthy and Christian charity; how much more to have spent it not in the cure, but in the prevention of evil -- in making almshouses less needful, and lessening the number of candidates for the hospital! Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
It was needful for me to travel onward. A Time of War
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? A Brief History of Disbelief
The section of society most needful of such guidance is the young male.
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring more than was needful among some of the pestilent sect of Redgauntlet
And so now the "chopsticks" are in their hands and I am getting some much needed food and rest in those areas.... and allowing me to spend more time in other needful areas. Archive 2010-01-01
My own thinking is that he's not so much in need of a keep fit campaign as he's needful of an outlet for all that energy.
I've got the needfuls, and it will sweeten our tempers. A Dixie School Girl
Another statement by Cantillon would also be seen as mercantilist: ‘It is needful to discourage all foreign manufactures and to give plenty of employment to the inhabitants.’
Doubtless; but I fear that my young relative Will Ladislaw is chiefly determined in his aversion to these callings by a dislike to steady application, and to that kind of acquirement which is needful instrumentally, but is not charming or immediately inviting to self-indulgent taste. Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information.
'Is it my defect of spiritual experience, that while that weight of sagacity, which is the iron to the dart of genius, is needful to satisfy me, the undertone of another and a deeper knowledge does not please, does not command me? Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
Nowadays folks don't have to sew unless they want to, but when I was a child there warn't any sewin'-machines, and it was about as needful for folks to know how to sew as it was for 'em to know how to eat; and every child that was well raised could hem and run and backstitch and gether and overhand by the time she was nine years old. Aunt Jane of Kentucky
Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
And vppon the toppe of the Chariot, was placed a stoole of green Iasper, set in siluer: needfull in byrth, and medicinable for chastitie; at the foote it was sixe square, and growing smaller towarde the seate, and from the middle to the foote, champhered and furrowed, and vpward wrought with nextrulles: the seate whereof was somewhat hallowed, for the more easily sitting vppon it. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Afterward he caused vs to shewe him all our garments: and whatsoeuer hee deemed to be lesse needfull for vs, he willed vs to leaue it behind in the custodie of our hoste. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
He hoped he could do this without letting any more information slip to the enemy than was needful.
The tone of the letter suggested that he was more than willing to do the needful.
It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring more than was needful among some of the pestilent sect of Quakers — a people who own neither priest nor king, nor civil magistrate, nor the fabric of our law, and will not depone either IN Redgauntlet
To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
Martha; forget the many things, and choose that one thing which is needful; and with David, still desire that one thing, "To behold the beauty of the Lord in His temple;" and with Paul, "Forget the things that are behind, and press forward to the prize of the high-calling thro 'Jesus Christ. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
In most cases of monstrosity by excess, however, it is needful to remove the superfluous parts, in which case the general principles employed for embryotomy must be followed. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
This is a kind of cultural fostering in which the role of parents is reduced to agents providing the money to buy in what is needful for a rich and complete childhood.
But, as I sat pondering my case and boiling like cauldron over fire, behold, my host came back, accompanied by a porter loaded with bread and meat and new cooking-pots and gear and a new jar and new gugglets and other needfuls. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I'd like to think that Elvis was there for all who were needful, or hard of heart.
As there are several degrees of people employed in trade below these, such as workmen, labourers, and servants, so there is a degree of traders above them, which we call merchants; where it is needful to observe, that in other countries, and even in the north of Britain and The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)
For all things were done by Thy servants; either to show forth something needful for the present, or to foreshow things to come. The Confessions
The hardest thing I learned was to pace myself and do the most needful things first.
The club has already informed Leicester City that it cannot finance its visit; the hosts will have to do the needful.
It is often needful to use some soothing, nourishing substance, such as liquorice, boiled with a little camomile, taken, say after meals, while the acid is taken before them: this has an excellent effect. Papers on Health
He urged the Chief Minister to do the needful in this regard so that the deplorable condition of jails all over the state could be improved.
And further, I was to prouide for biscuit, beere, and beefe, and other victuals, and things otherwayes needful according to aduise. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Sophocles says that the clever birds feed their parents and their benefactors, and men ascribe piety to them in fables, as a needful ensample to one another. Mary Anerley
Other faculties have been developed or have appeared needful for communal safety and prosperity, and thus it has come about that the government of these emmet societies, as with bees, hornets, and wasps, is really a gynarchy, or government by females.
At the end of the section he writes: For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold.
It was needful, it was necessary, it was contingent that Nigeria could not plod on headlessly. AllAfrica News: Latest
The try deserved a conversion and against the wind Peterson did the needful.
What a profound, insightful and needful statement!

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