be needful

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Using such serious words so readily not only ensures that no fruitful discussion can follow, it diminishes their value in those rare times where they might be needful.

From Fox News • Mar. 25, 2019

"All things that be needful both for our souls and bodies" is, we presume, summed up in "our daily bread."

From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood

"And I pray unto God that he will send us all things that be needful both for our souls and bodies, and that he will be merciful unto to us, and forgive us our sins."

From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood

If there be anything in inspiration, it will be needful on such a theme.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip

Also," he added, "I hear that fears are expressed lest you, my dear adjutant-general, should be disabled by increasing years from undergoing the fatigue which, will doubtless be needful during a difficult and exhausting campaign.

From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Meding, Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar