Needed

Examples

• Dose, teaspoonful to one-half wineglassful, as needed. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• For the easy expression of public opinion in government is a clue to what services are needed and a test of their success. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No one ever needed your advice more than I do. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I needed no second permission; though I was by this time in such a state of consternation and agitation, that my legs shook under me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I got some data and made up my mind that what was needed was a very powerful engine for its weight, in small compass. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn't cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help, said Jo, wondering. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And this lawful use of them seems likely to be often needed in the regulations of marriages and births. Plato. The Republic.
• Another man in his position would have needed some explanation of those words--the Count felt no such necessity. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For the latter something less flexible than rope is needed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But it had been a hard fight to make the world take what it sorely needed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When, as in Macedonia, populations are mixed in a patchwork of villages and districts, the cantonal system is imperatively needed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It needed more--more that could not be had. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Not much argument was needed to maintain the truth of a theory which to his own contemporaries seemed so natural and congenial. Plato. The Republic.
• He will be here when he is needed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Then a machine was needed and invented to wind the corn-brush with the cord or wire and tie it in a round bunch, preparatory to flattening and sewing it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It needed no more. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When the trade had extended into all the surrounding counties, however, the new business needed another prime essential of industry--transportation facilities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was some one here that needed looking to, she said. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• An enormous quantity of sodium carbonate, or soda, as it is usually called, is needed in the manufacture of glass, soap, bleaching powders, and other commercial products. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Where _he_ is summoned, be sure a strong arm is needed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Celeste had not yet sent in her account, and secondly, the amount it represented was only a fraction of the sum that Lily needed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• That was what that face really needed to complete it; a half chewed cigar. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She needed no time for deliberation or inquiry. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He needed no second entreaty; and she prepared her father's bed, and begged him to lie down. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If the same scholastic method is in force there, all that would be needed to crush socialism is to show its dogmatic inconsistencies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No packing down is needed except in the corners and along the walls; at these points we endeavor to firm the ensilage just as much as possible. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He needed to recover the full sense that he was in the right by moderating his words. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I didn't suppose you needed to have them pointed out. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She only said earnestly, recurring to his last word-- I am sure no safeguard was ever needed against you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He was kind when I needed kindness; he did me good. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Edited by Linda