must needs

• “And yet can they not consider that where a woman reigneth and papists bear authority, that there must needs Satan be president of the council? "”

  Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles

• “So when she had thus endured a ten days, that she feebled so that she must needs pass out of this world, then she shrived her clean, and received her Creator.”

  Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2

• “She had been ten flock journeys to La Liebre and back, but Ruy Garcia must needs give her his hand over the gully.”

  Spring o' the Year

• “I am constitutionally slow of adopting any theory that I must needs stick by when I have gone in for it; but for these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.”

  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

• “It was impossible to endure this farther than Narbonne; sick and suffering, I sought rest, but then came gensdarmes and demanded my passport, and then just as night began, a fire must needs break out in the neighboring village; the fire alarm resounded, the fire-engines rolled along, it was just as though all manner of tormenting spirits were let loose.”

  The True Story of My Life

• “He told me one day, that if our God could hear us, up beyond the sun, he must needs be a greater God than their Benamuckee, who lived but a little way off, and yet could not hear till they went up to the great mountains where he dwelt to speak to them.”

  Robinson Crusoe

• “Christian will inform you I have taken all the Care I could for your Advantage in every respect and I must needs own he hath behav ed himself and his men too with a great deal of Suitable kindness to the”

  Letter from Robert Carter to John Pemberton and Company, December 19, 1727, and February 21, 1728

• “Quoth Antony, “So are those who renounce the world, and yet must needs have money, torn by dæmons.””

  The Hermits

• “How the fecundation takes place I know not, but it must needs be the same as in other kinds of the related Bombinator; igneus throws out almost as many eggs hanging together in clusters as obstetricans; fuscus throws them out from itself in strings (see Roseld's illustration) ...”

  Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence

• “When the bands of morality are thus spurned, a man rapidly sins his understanding into lameness; as its better forces must needs be quickly rotted in such a vapour-bath of sensuality.”

  Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters

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