Provided them with all things needful. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : needful supplies. From Dictionary.com.
The one thing needful is certainly meant of that which Mary made her choice -- sitting at Christ's feet, to hear his word. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
It meant they were just sick of this constant idea that the one thing needful is to put more people in the West -- and more people, and yet more people. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheat Situation] Reference
"P.S. No name needful, for you will not be astray about the hand.". From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 04] Reference
Ye have large and airy apprehensions of temporal things, which ye call needful, and ye cannot behold eternal things. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference
There are men whom one cannot help loving and admiring though they lack a great many things -- things very "needful" to make them perfect men. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Giles, who looked on Dennet as a kind of needful appendage to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Armourer's Prentices] Reference
Our public colleges and universities through their boards of visitors have the authority to establish policies that are "needful" to carry out the mission of the institutions. From Wordnik.com. [The Roanoke Times: Home page] Reference
Make all preparations which seem to you fit and needful. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
'One thing is needful,' said she, 'to complete the chain. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The model gulped and looked even more needful than before. From Wordnik.com. [Rose Petals] Reference
It is most needful that thou shouldst always remember this. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
But we must not go in for more sentiment than is actually needful. From Wordnik.com. [Scotch Loch-Fishing] Reference
What is the use of offering people everything but the one thing needful?. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
They knew how to do all the simple household duties needful for their humble home. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
She should also be able, if needful, to make and mend her own and children's clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
"I hope it won't be needful to call in the locksmith again, Parfitt," said the master. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
"They love you, undoubtedly, but the needful assistance is not to be obtained from them.". From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Fame, he felt, is a sweet poison one drinks of first in eager sips, then in needful gulps. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel Byrne: A Review of Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Shoenberg] Reference
Later, you'll be shaken by a sudden nameless grief, a sense of needful opportunity lost. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Dream] Reference
For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
We are not to pray for "much goods for many years," but only for this one day's needful supply. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
"" I am only saying things I think might be useful and needful for Russia, '' he said in October. From Wordnik.com. [Solzhenitsyn Goes Home] Reference
He poor, that stands in need of another, and hath not in himself all things needful for this life. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Be not you therefore like to them for your Father knoweth what is needful for you, before you ask him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference
Why should you be sorry that you have become the one thing needful in any man's eyes, -- even in mine?. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
In these pleasures, enhanced by the needful toils of the household or the field, the summer sped away. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The people could not do too much to aid the Union cause, and brought us an abundance of everything needful. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He must, if really needful, help to save the state, even at the risk, or at the positive loss, of his own life. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
"I have told you all that was needful to warn you of your own peril; you should not take advantage of my frankness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
The shift back towards an intelligence/law enforcement/special operations approach towards counterterrorism is needful. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel Lajeunesse: Towards a Fiscally and Politically Solvent Counterterrorism Strategy] Reference
And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 65: Hebrews The Challoner Revision] Reference
Yet thought they none the less of the youth because he felt that a renowned father made all the harder work needful in the son. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
These strong and sturdy hands seemed to promise him protection in case it should be needful for him at any future time to seek it. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
There are no trees to obstruct the genial fire from the sky, which the Germans deem so needful to render their vintages propitious. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
It was a lucky move on the part of our hero, as he got the remainder of the points needful for the carrying out of his immediate plans. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
A friend who was by, knowing that Lincoln was short of funds, in order to save him from embarrassment, offered to lend him the needful sum. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
And the fields had a trodden, suburban aspect, which made it hardly needful to stick up boards describing them as eligible building-ground. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
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