Life pulsed steadily and deep in him, and it was not his nature needlessly to agitate the surface so that the world could see the splash he was making.
And Gertrude watched her still, thinking her often needlessly particular in the performance of small duties, and losing patience now and then, when these things interfered with her wishes.
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm, is all unfit to live!
He had let it fall in the body, in order to extricate it more easily afterward, and not risk pulling it out carelessly so as to get himself covered needlessly by tell-tale drops of blood, like ordinary clumsy assassins.
I thought and still think this lecture needlessly cruel and mortifying.
On which last notice I would remark that mine was too rapid, and the suffering therefore needlessly aggravated; or rather, perhaps, it was not sufficiently continuous and equably graduated.
They had needlessly sacrificed a goodly share of their annual income.
I feared, moreover, that this would needlessly prolong the conversation.
He was not wise in so doing, for his life was of far too much value to France to be thus needlessly periled.
The Protestants oftenneedlessly exasperated the Catholics by demolishing, in the hour of victory, their churches, their paintings, and their statues, and by pouring contempt upon all that was most hallowed in the Catholic heart.
I cannot admit anything gaudy, needlessly exotic, or impertinently obtruding the idea of dollars.
On the other hand, if he sees that they are inflated by their temporary command, and employ the opportunity to make their authority needlessly felt, and to exercise petty tyranny, he entertains feelings of revenge toward them.
Agrippa needlessly ran foul of this opinion, or prejudice as he called it, and thereby lost much of his influence.
The demon replied, that he had been needlessly invoked by an insulting youth, and could do no less than kill him for his presumption.
No, I am glad indeed if no human life was needlessly extinguished by me.
He is facing the distant crest, holding his field-glass against his eyes with both hands, his elbows needlessly elevated.
He had always assumed that he would at least share the throne with the youth whom Claudius, at the wearying importunities of his mother, had needlessly adopted, and had repented of having adopted.
Pomponia had warned him that to mention the subject of their conversation might needlessly imperil her life, and to no one did he venture to say a word on the subject except to Pudens.
His Majesty's Government had needlessly lost six years in coming to a settlement which was entirely satisfactory to the Government and people of the United States.
Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island argued against Mr. Ingersoll's amendment as needlessly abridging the power of the States.
The various compound pills listed below are needlessly complex and therefore irrational.
A needlessly complex mixture containing the acetates and sulphates of copper and zinc in dilute acetic acid solution with lead sulphate in suspension.
The official preparations of rhubarb are needlessly numerous, those that are starred being quite sufficient.
USES: Bitter stomachic and laxative; needlessly complex and without special advantage over compound tincture of gentian.
One day, when Solem swore a needlessly strong oath at a horse that was restless, she looked at him, shivered, and went a deep red.
Sometimes I have been needlessly stern with myself.
I needlessly rattle my pots and pans as I cook, and I sing at the top of my voice.
I have not said much about one which has given me the deuce's disquiet for ten months past, because there was no good in talking about it, or vexing you needlessly with reports of my griefs and woes.
Of a truth Mr. Rye's sympathy is quite uncalled for, and even rather needlessly offensive.
Any act is immoral and wrong whichneedlessly injures a fellow creature.
If it is wrong to inflict needless injury upon our fellows, it is right to defend our fellows and ourselves from the attacks of those who would needlessly injure us.
We think it right to turn every thing to account, so that nothing be wasted, and that the expenses of the Institution be not needlessly increased.
Do not all these objections only hold good, I said to myself, if I were needlessly to set about building?
I didn't intend to be needlessly disagreeable and wasn't always watching for mischief, but credited them with honor and friendly feelings, I think some of them underwent a change of heart.
We shall be needlessly mortgaging the future by allowing any special class or interest to use our waterways and water-power sites without making some direct payment for these valuable privileges.
Generally for a mere pittance the landing rights, to the thread of the stream, passed to private ownership needlesslyand without any consideration to the original grantor, the Government.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "needlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
