A house without a woman stands in need of rather a severe discipline to preserve that modesty which is inseparable from dignity.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Coffee was cold as Earth, Water as Thames , And stood in need of recommending Flames; *** Coffee so brown as berry does appear, Too swarthy for a Nymph so fair, so clear: ***
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

We went to the “Hotel de Russie,” where they gave you an excellent dinner for six francs a head, and I thought my mad friend stood in need of recruiting his strength.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She is never officially recognized as a monarch of England, but if you or I should ever occupy a throne we should like to have proper notice taken of it; and it would be only fair and right, too, particularly if we gained nothing by it and lost our lives besides.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Were it not for this, no translation worthy of the name would ever stand in need of revision, except in instances where the discovery and collation of fresh manuscripts had improved the text.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

I murmured to myself as I followed one of the peasants to his cot, standing a little back from the highway, for I stood sore in need of rest after the terrible experience I had just had.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

To maintain this peculiar position, which constituted its strength, it not only required political privileges, but it required a standard of right and wrong for its own especial use.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

This is intended for the parents advantage, as the other is for the child's; though education, the parents duty, seems to have most power, because the ignorance and infirmities of childhood stand in need of restraint and correction; which is a visible exercise of rule, and a kind of dominion.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

In 1804, the Lake Shore Road stood in need of repairs, and in some places even of "opening" and "clearing out."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

"She is not old, Robert."
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

These moats are connected with the river by sluices; but they are sadly in need of repair, and are filled with stagnant water and putrid matter,—a continual menace to the health of the city.
— from The Philippine Islands by Ramon Reyes Lala

Charles Holland did, indeed, stand in need of repose; and for the first time now for many days he laid down with serenity at his heart, and slept for many hours.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

It was not unusual for him, when sorely in need of rest, to break off in the midst of his work, lie down and immediately go to sleep, and after five or ten minutes wake up refreshed.
— from Health: How to get it and keep it. The hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation. by Walter V. Woods

to " fac 122 Saccharomyces Ellipsoideus 126 Saccharomyces Pastorianus 126 Bacillus Acidi Lactici 131 Bacillus Butyricus 133 Kipp's Apparatus 140 Fränkel's Tube 141 Buchner's Tube 141 A Method of Growing Cultivations in a Vacuum over Pyrogallic Solution 143 Micrococcus from Soil 151 Nitrous Organism to face 158 Nitric Organism to " face 158 Nitrogen-Fixing Organism from Secretion of Root-Nodules to " face 158 Rootlet of Pea with Nodules 163 Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria in Situ in Nodule on Rootlet of a Pea to face 164 Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria in Situ in Rootlet-Nodule of a Pea to " fac 164 Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria in Situ in Root-Nodule of a Pea to " fac 164 Bacillus of Tetanus 170 Bacillus of Symptomatic Anthrax 172 Bacillus of Malignant Œdema
— from Bacteria Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health by Newman, George, Sir

Man's spirit, his most noble element, stands in need of redemption as well as his body, for all its faculties are corrupted by sin.
— from Exposition of the Apostles' Creed by James Dodds

Then, secondly, this sin is not only received, but retained—that is, it sticks so fast, abides so fixedly in the soul, that it cannot be gotten out; this is the cause of the continuation of abhorrence; for if God abhors because there is a being of sin there, it must needs be that he should continue to abhor, since sin continues to have a being there.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

But if they do not get revenge, they feel a weight of disappointment: for, owing to its not showing itself, no one reasons with them; and there is need of time for a man to digest his anger within him.
— from Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet