Needful

Examples

• Information of both outrages was communicated to the police, and the needful investigations were pursued, I believe, with great energy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And I don't want to leave her without what may be a needful warning. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There was nothing in these words which made any reply at all needful, on my part--and yet, I answered them! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You abase them more than is needful, in the faint hope that others may say a word in their behalf--which won't happen. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Not having an answer of the needful smartness as ready as I could have wished, I tried to gain time by asking him what cottage he wanted to go to. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I have now recalled all that I think it needful to recall here, of this term of absence--with one reservation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You are provided with the needful implement--a book, sir? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I tell you it is not needful. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• With the old, he had another part to play, which, when needful, he could sustain with great decorum. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He had hardly composed himself into the needful state of abstraction, when he thought he heard his own name proclaimed in some distant passage. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But the needful opportunity failed to present itself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The antenna has electrical capacity, and when it is connected with the other apparatus needful to produce the oscillations it disturbs the earth’s magnetic field. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr. Weller touched his hat, as an earnest of his obedience, and withdrew to make all needful preparations for the expedition. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The old maid was too poor to give much, though she straitened herself to privation that she might contribute her mite when needful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• How often has she taunted me with lack of dignified reserve and needful caution! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• One other thing I felt it needful to touch upon before he left me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Why should it be made a longer one than is needful? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Independence was more needful than ever; the want of it at Mansfield more sensibly felt. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• A pendulum clock must of necessity be stationary, but it is now needful that people should be able to have a timepiece whenever and wherever wanted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If the world was full of perplexing problems she would trust, and only ask to see the one step needful for the hour. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In fire and in blood, if needful, must that proof be written. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But if it is needful-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then one can tie a message under its wing when needful. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was needful to economise severely, to make possible the great alterations he must introduce. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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