89 Metaphors for needing

They scan all the red wilderness, dispensing their blessings of cool shadows and rain where the need is the greatest, refreshing the rocks, their offspring as well as the vegetation, continuing their sculpture, deepening gorges and sharpening peaks.

Another need which I, as a Scotswoman, feel remains to be met, is a work to suit the tastes and ideals of Scottish people.

Russia had multitudes to draw from in reserve, but the need was multitudes at the front.

"No need to tell me his name, miss," was the answer.

Needs, as an adverb, is a contraction of need is; prithee, or pr'ythee, of I pray thee; alone, of all one; only, of one-like; anon, of the Saxon an on; i.e., in one [instant]; never, of ne ever; i.e., not ever.

His great needs are patience and diplomacy and a knowledge of Indian warfare.

No wonder that some, hearing this dread sentence, go half crazy in a frenzied effort to clutch at what remains, run amok, so to say, in their despairing determination to have, if need be, a last "good time" and die.

In every generation such chastisement has been needed; the need is no greater to-day than in past generations, and the chastening love no less.

That Canada felt no need of bulwarks except against England's foes was a point on which he constantly insisted.

Here again the need is not impatience, not revolution, but a sustained and penetrating criticism, a steadfast, continuous urgency towards effort and well-planned reconstruction and efficiency.

There are men higher placed than Du Paty who must bear their share of censure and, if need be, punishment.'

Closely paralleling the group need for survival and uniformity (solidarity) was the need for group expansion, or extension.

Needs, as an adverb, is a contraction of need is; prithee, or pr'ythee, of I pray thee; alone, of all one; only, of one-like; anon, of the Saxon an on; i.e., in one [instant]; never, of ne ever; i.e., not ever.

THE NEED OF AN ENLARGED SPACE-CONCEPT It is the contrariety in phenomena already referred to, that is forcing advanced minds to entertain the idea of higher space.

The need of the Hindu is not less but more and better existence.

Bayezid, who was under the obligation always to lead his army in person, could make but one campaign at a time; and a need in Europe was the more pressing.

And then, perhaps, we are brought into a state of darkness and despondency, to show us our utter helplessness and unworthiness, and the need there is for every one of us to "keep the heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

A negro whose time of service could not be extended must needs have been a servant for lifein other words a slave.

A negro whose time of service could not be extended must needs have been a servant for lifein other words a slave.

It is only those in whom indolence amounts to a vice, that do not desire excitement after an interval of repose; it is only those in whom the need of excitement is a disease, that feel the tranquillity which follows excitement dull and insipid, instead of pleasurable in direct proportion to the excitement which preceded it.

It is something to secure to the student or the clerk the strong muscles, hearty appetite, and sound sleep of the sailor and the ploughman,to enable him, if need be, to out-row the fisherman, and out-run the mountaineer, and lift more than his porter, and to remember head-ache and dyspepsia only as he recalls the primeval whooping-cough of his childhood.

Faith, the certainty that a man is right, will give him a courage which will enable him to resist, if need be, the rich ones, the strong ones, the learned ones of the earth.

No need for him to look at the rest of the questions, and even if he did know the answers to two or three, there was no use in writing them down.

The need of a Radical organ to make head against the Edinburgh and Quarterly (then in the period of their greatest reputation and influence) had been a topic of conversation between him and Mr. Bentham many years earlier, and it had been a part of their Château en Espagne that my father should be the editor; but the idea had never assumed any practical shape.

She being a Capulet and I a Montague, it would go hard with us for communication, were it not for this long-distance wall; and any one who knows anything of love knows that the primal need of lovers is communication.

89 Metaphors for  needing