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

Before landing they entered into a solemn agreement to make and obey such laws as should be needful for the good of the colony.

From American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History by Gordy, Wilbur Fisk

"Will it not be needful for you to call again?"

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

"A certain amount must be needful," said she, half jokingly, "when conversing with a learned man."

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