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With such encouragement, repeated time by time as seemed to him needful,
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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Shall be my surety; fore whose throne tis needful,
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And look what order you shall prescribe as needful,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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She gave him a billet, loosely tied with black floss silk and unsealed, so that if needful,
Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Forced on maturer years, as the serious one thing needful,
Amours De Voyage Arthur Hugh Clough 1840
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Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful,
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Shall be my surety; ’fore whose throne ’tis needful,
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