Needing

Examples

• Hitherto they had been voiceless, wordless, needing all their breath for their hard-labouring efforts to break down the gates. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Fearing to betray herself, she slipped away, murmuring something about needing more paper. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Found in their natural state in utmost perfection, needing no cutting nor polishing, these glowing beads of the sea were the first baubles of savages, tribes and nations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There she is, a lily of the valley, untinted, needing no tint. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And all of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Being found in a condition of comparative purity, and needing but little refinement, they were, for that reason, the first metals fashioned to meet the wants of man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Matter must be considered as created by God in accordance with law and as ever obedient to law, not as an independent or hostile fo rce needing occasional correction. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Now the moon is high; and the great house, needing habitation more than ever, is like a body without life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Edited by Ivan