The game was so abundant, that the real difficulty was to restrain ourselves from destroying more than was needful for our use.

How much all this delighted me you will understand without its being needful to me to set it down in words.

It is laughter and contentment and the struggle for a goal; It is everything that's needful in the shaping of a soul.

Bloodstained, indeed, it may be, but still needful at these times, since it is not restored to those to whom it really belongs.

But he had learned, by experience in Sicily, that the state revenues of Carthage were expended in Carthage itself on matters much more needful than the payment of the armies that fought against the enemy.

His products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver.

To provide Marina with companionship, Piero had confided her intended flight to the Lady Beata Tagliapietra, being sure of her devotion; and she would be waiting for them at Padua with two trusted gondoliers and whatever might be needful from the wardrobe of the Lady of the Giustiniani.

Some explanations are needful on this head.

And, after that, I saw many creatures that went about the fire, and did have warmth from the fire and drink from the spring; and surely I did ponder that the Peoples of this our Age should say, if they had stood with me, that Providence had made nigh together the warmth and the drink that were needful unto life (for it was grown to a bitter chill now in the Gorge).

His simple wants were easily supplied by the wild productions of the country, supplemented when needful by the proceeds of light manual labour.

"The king will do well," answered Bourbon, "to get there as soon as possible, for despatch is needful beyond everything."

If any thing further may be needful toward promoting your reciprocal felicity, let me know it; and how you order about the day; and all that.

This, although it necessarily doth include setting out their faults, and charging blame on them (answerable to their offences), is not the culpable reproach here meant, it being needful towards a wholesome effect, and proceeding from charitable intention.

Descartes accomplishes everything needful with the sure simplicity of genius.

Finally, the second mate undertook to secure the needful without the expenditure of any money.

And she made then that she would go from me, and I to loose her, as ever; and she bade me that I guard her the while that she washt the outward part of the cloak; for the inward did be clean, and the cloak proof to water; but the outward part to be something needful of washing.