needful

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The garçon, a beaming, ubiquitous creature, trotted perpetually, diving down steps, darting into dark corners, or skipping up ladders, producing needfuls from most unexpected places.

From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Alcott, Louisa May

Then the girls walked on Broad Street and saw the shops and bought a few souvenirs and some needfuls, while Mrs. Parsons remained in the hotel.

From Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Emerson, Alice B.

The ditty bag included needles and needfuls, love-tokens, jewels, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Miss Lavinia packed and repacked four or five times, forgetting needfuls, which, of course, were always at the very bottom.

From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Alcott, Louisa May

I’ve got the needfuls, and it will sweeten our tempers.

From A Dixie School Girl by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)