269 Verbs to Use for the Word need

"I don't have much of a brave heart, but I often feel the need of it when I am sick and lonely.

So the duty of the parent is to "look as deeply as possible into the life of the child to see what he requires for his present stage of development," and then to "scrutinise the environment to see what it offers ... to utilise all possibilities of meeting normal needs," to remove what is hurtful, or at least to "admit its defects" if they cannot give the child what his nature requires.

When the human being has more energy than he requires in order to supply the bodily needs of himself and his family, then he feels impelled to use it.

But fairy tales do not continue to satisfy all needs.

A woman with sympathy sees a need, she gets an idea and calls others about her.

As I have already said, for anything I know, one, two, or three hundred millions of years may serve the needs of geologists perfectly well. III.

Miss Howden was an Infants' Mistress in one of the slums, and knew well the needs of little children in that wide street, once decked with lordly mansions, which leads from the Castle to Holyrood Palace.

Any one who understands the double needs of the kindergarten and primary school cannot fail to see this matter correctly, and as I said before, we do not want a few kindergarten exercises, we want the kindergarten.

a rogue of rogues, master!" "Then hath he the more need of our prayers, Roger.

" As ideas widen the child's purposes enlarge, and he finds the need for that co-operation which binds human beings together.

His interpretations of the Scriptures were generally entirely original, and were made to suit the needs, or what he supposed to be the needs, of his congregation.

I shall write this night to thank him, having no need to borrow.'

While recognizing the urgent need for adequate national defence, Jaurès laboured so to organize it that it could not be mistaken for nor converted into aggression.

This hospital was an exception; but it shows the need of intelligent watchfulness on the part of the Government.

Remembering who he was, I now realized fully the desperate nature of my attempt, the need of quick, remorseless action.

His first stories and poems, often written in hot haste, to fill the urgent need of more copy, appeared as waifs and strays in the papers for which he wrote.

"Then give him six pennies, Little John," quoth Robin, "for methinks food for three men will about fit my need.

The mobilization of woman-power on the farm is the need of the hour, and the wise and devoted women who are trying to answer the need, deserve an all-hail from the people of the United States and her Allies.

Who could tell their pressing need in months to come?

" It was very necessary to bring home to the United States Navy Department the need for early action.

By affablyalways affably and hospitablyaccepting this service from one society, and suggesting another pressing need to its competitor, it sorted out capabilities, and warded off duplication.

If the beliefs proposed seem to have anticipated moral and intellectual needs not felt in the prophet's own age or society, this might be paralleled from the inspiration of genius in other departments, and could not of itself be regarded as establishing the ab extra character of the revelation.

As in arithmetic and in handwork, they will come to recognise the need for practice, and be willing to undergo such exercise for the sake of improvement, as well as for the pleasure in the activitywhich actual writing gives to some children.

You will thus save the need for exclusions later.

Through some minutes, I reasoned with her; pointing out the need for caution, and asking her to be brave.

269 Verbs to Use for the Word  need