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

Should it be needful to take the field with you, I shall take it.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

When he heard it, he smiled, and said, "It will be needful first to ascertain which of the nuts is soundest within."

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

"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)

"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