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Sentences starting with lack

Lack of opportunity, lack of proper nutrition,--these made sinners by the wholesale; made, too, nine-tenths of the inefficient of whom we self-righteously complained. [9]
Lack of money and estate--that is hard enough on a single man like me, but with a gentleman who has the care of a daughter, perhaps"--his look again met the young lady's face--"the case is harder. [11]

Sentences ending with lack

It is just that note, which is characteristic of so many clergymen, that note of smoothing-over and apology, which you lack. [9]
Then he remarked that he had undertaken to 'learn' me all about a steamboat, and had done it; but that if he had overlooked anything, just ask him and he would supply the lack. [5]
Their dry throats refused to receive the solid food of which there was no lack. [10]
What do you lack? [5]
We felt the lack of something in this community--a vague, an indefinable, an elusive something, and yet a lack. [5]
But if it isn't summer, what does it lack? [5]
Much of it is admirable in workmanship, and exhibits a cleverness in details and a subtlety in the observation of traits which many great novels lack. [4]
On their account, in the dense darkness which prevailed, caution was necessary, and this the guide certainly did not lack. [10]
Which of the four Fs did Countess Cordula von Montfort ever lack? [10]
Other and less easily definable attributes he did not lack. [9]

Short sentences using lack

You will not lack support. [9]
You will not lack patrons. [10]
He did not lack ideas. [9]
She does not lack courage. [9]
I suppose I lack appreciation. [5]
What lack you from us? [7]
You don't lack confidence, certainly. [11]

Sentences containing lack two or more times

They lack vim, they lack venom. [5]
The lack in the general reading public, in the novels read by the greater number of people, and in the common school is the same--the lack of inspiration and ideality. [4]
Why, I lack my harp, and my wreath, and my halo, and my hymn-book, and my palm branch--I lack everything that a body naturally requires up here, my friend. [5]
There was no lack of room in her apartments, nor did Frau Gertrude, who had served the Burgravine as waiting maid many years before her marriage, lack either skill or good will. [10]
And when you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance. [7]

More example sentences with the word lack in them

And I promise you you shall not lack for opportunity. [9]
Although we struggle, yet by habit, by self-indulgence, by lack of a sustained purpose, we have formed a character from which escape seems hopeless. [9]
Here also, as Wolf himself had probably experienced, there had been no lack of inclination toward the Lutheran doctrine. [10]
Where are your wits--I hear you don't lack them in court. [9]
Among the guests who thronged to her house there was no lack of elderly gentlemen who would gladly have married the vivacious, unusual woman, who was so nearly connected with the royal family, and lived in such luxurious style. [10]
I know too what you lack most since you heard the fair words of the senator's son. [10]
The result was what the reader has by this time guessed: the most magnificent idea that was ever conceived had to be abandoned, from sheer lack of a person with enterprise enough to carry it out. [5]
He comes asking what has become of Emerson's "wasted power" and lamenting his lack of "fruitage," and lo! [6]
But Eva knew what had befallen the Eysvogel wares and, although she did not lack courage, she started in terror as she heard the tramp of horses' hoofs and the clank of weapons, not from the city, but within the forest. [10]
It was what we intended to do, but lack of time defeated it. [5]
Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade. [5]
But if he was, he still got his information at second-hand, as it was the operator who noticed Harriet's lack of emotion, not himself. [5]
His intellectual activity was unremitting, he had no lack of friends, there was only now and then a discordant note in the general estimation of his literary work, and he was the object of the most tender care from his nieces. [4]
And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew's lack of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a sign of strength. [2]
Of honors there was no lack, nor of the adulation of social and literary circles. [4]
No special haste was needful, and, as he loved good wine and did not lack gifts from those who desired an audience with his master, he went first to the English Greeting, where the travelling clergy lodged and often deigned to accost him. [10]
In Paris there was at first no lack of pleasures of every description, especially as they met among the king's mercenaries many a dissolute Swiss knight and man at arms. [10]
It is a want of sympathy of the heart, or it is a lack of intelligence and broad-minded interest in affairs of the world and in other people. [4]
Mr. Redbrook's speech, vehement and honest, helps a little; people listen to an honest and forceful man, however he may lack technical knowledge, but the majority of the replies are mere incoherent denunciations of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
Mr. Cooke looked us over, proudly and gratefully, as much as to say that while he lived we should not lack the necessities of life. [9]
Subjects are the trouble--the dreary lack of them, I mean. [5]
And she was troubled by no qualms of logic, but gloried, womanlike, in her lack of it. [9]
The more I tried, the more apparent my lack of insight became to him, the more irritated he grew. [9]
The travelers were told stories of the lack of common morality and decency in the region, but they made no note of them. [4]
I was put to very small pains to rout my instructor out of all his positions, because indolence, and lack of interest in the question, and contempt for the Americans, had made him neglect the study of it. [9]
Bob Worthington came to the edge of the porch and stood there, frankly scanning the crowd, with an entire lack of self-consciousness. [9]
I beg leave to say that my resignation is not sent in in any spirit of insubordination, but, as I before said, simply to relieve you from any embarrassment in changing commanders where lack of confidence may have rendered it necessary. [7]
Gradually she began to realize, however, that her resentment of the lack of confidence of her husband was by no means the only cause of the feeling that took possession of and overwhelmed her. [9]
It were hypercritical to accuse him of a lack of originality. [9]
The red-nosed Captain Timokhin, formerly Dolokhov's squadron commander, but now from lack of officers a battalion commander, shyly entered the shed followed by an adjutant and the regimental paymaster. [2]
For a long time I was the moving spirit in this play, and we had no lack of talented mimes, personators of sentimental heroes, and droll comedians. [10]
The Nile at this point is muddy, swift and turbid, and does not lack a great deal of being as wide as the Mississippi. [5]
Many languages and things get mislaid in a person's head, and stay mislaid for lack of this remedy. [5]
I don't say they're not good, in away, but they lack a certain imagination. [9]
They helped me, they fed me with dialect, with local details, with memories, with old letters, with diaries of their forebears, until, if I had gone wrong, it would have been through lack of skill in handling my material. [11]
We went by the way of the Te^te Noir, and after we reached high ground there was no lack of fine scenery. [5]
They point to the United States, but it seems to me that the cases lack a good deal of being alike. [5]
The indifference of the town pained him, and he was naturally not a little grieved at the lack of proper feeling of the country people of America towards those who would better their conditions. [9]
You know what the title procures for a man, though your saying-- 'Knightly Knightly rank with lack of land More care than joy hath at command,' is but too true. [10]
They have lost the power of distinguishing right from wrong; they commonly lack will-power, and so are incapable of changing their habits without external influence. [4]
The interests of the persons in her novels supplied the lack of interest in her own life; and Memory and Imagination found their appropriate work, and ceased to prey upon her vitals. [14]
Many printings lack the name of the publisher, the printer, the place or date of printing. [5]
The seneschal wrote the messages, and sent the summons to the sleek men of the cities, and let it be known that the coffers were full and not too tightly sealed, that the faithful should not lack for the sinews of war. [9]
In spite of the great care bestowed on cats, there can have been no lack of mice in Egypt. [10]
I complained to the governor of his lack of financial trust in me, and he replied: "I would trust you myself--if you had a bell-punch. [5]
Religion treated from the economic side, you know, the effect of lack of nutrition on character. [9]
This suggestion, under the circumstances, might not have been a happy one, but its lack of appropriateness did not strike Jethro either. [9]
As I contemplated the Brecks odd questions suggested themselves: did honesty and warm-heartedness necessarily accompany a lack of artistic taste? [9]
I know the Thayers of old--manifestly there is no lack of attractions up there. [5]
We felicitated ourselves that we should have no lack of music when we came to Munich. [4]
In any case, that was in another land, under abnormal conditions; and, with lack of logic, she saw no reason why he should be socially punished in Jamaica for what he had been legally punished for in Ireland. [11]
But I knew that though immature I did not lack moral advancement. [5]
I feel sure that they are all due to your lack of practice in dictating. [5]
There is danger that she must retire from the struggle for a College degree for lack of support for herself and for Miss Sullivan, (the teacher who has been with her from the start--Mr. Rogers will remember her. [5]
He had learned that as there is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and lack freedom. [2]
Dr. Brooke had taken matters in his own hands and ordered an absolute rest, after dwelling at some length on the vicious pace set by modern business and the lack of consideration and knowledge shown by men of affairs for their bodies. [9]
She could not take another step, and looked round for a litter, but, while generally there was no lack of them, in this spot, to-day there was not one to be seen. [10]
I shall be stronger, then--stronger for that; for lack of it I am weak now. [5]
But in Dey Street she gained calmness, was able to renew something of that sense of proportion the lack of which, in the chaos in which she was engulfed, often brought her to the verge of madness. [9]
He could not stop what was going on before him and around him and was supposed to be directed by him and to depend on him, and from its lack of success this affair, for the first time, seemed to him unnecessary and horrible. [2]
There was sound, statesmanlike logic in his words, yet his language did not lack warmth and charm. [10]
His appearance added something to Buckner's uncomfortable state, and he said, with a show of regret and sympathy which sat upon him awkwardly from lack of practice: "It was an accident, you know. [5]
This brave young soldier of a dispossessed family wished to show no fear of pain, no lack of outward and physical courage in the approaching and final shock. [11]
In fine, although so much is said of the American lack of repose, is it not best for the American to be content to be himself, and let the critics adapt themselves or not, as they choose, to a new phenomenon? [4]
At the next sitting after the long one there was certainly no lack of liveliness. [5]
He had proved, since he wielded the sceptre, that he did not lack strength of will, and he must show it again. [10]
It was from sheer amazement that his tears ceased to flow--amazement and lack of breath--for the beautiful lady sprang up and seized him in her arms, and called Mathilde, who eventually brought a white and gold box. [9]
To be sure she was only a cousin, and she must lack something of what a real mother feels. [10]
Was it, as she said, weakness, lack of courage to take life when it was offered her?.... [9]
She maintained that she had never understood Victoria, and it was characteristic of Mrs. Pomfret that her respect increased in direct proportion to her lack of understanding. [9]
They lack English servility, it is true--but they could acquire it, with practice. [5]
No; you lack sense and the courage. [5]
He did not seem to notice the lack of cordiality in my tone. [9]
They did not seem to be moved by malice but only by prejudice, the common human prejudice against lack of conformity. [5]
They did not seek the war; they still lack co-ordination and leadership in waging it. [9]
The face was scant, perchance from lack of food, the nose large, with a curved rim, and the eyes blue gray. [9]
And from that saying we may learn--suffer me the syllogism--that, inasmuch as all things which bring woe to one bring joy to another, and vice-versa, there must ever be some sad faces so long as there is no lack of happy ones. [10]
Now, as I say, I have taken laborious pains to so trim this book of offense that you might not lack the nerve to print it just as it stands. [5]
Let this terrible record of lack of employment and misery be compared with the prosperity under Republican rule. [9]
The Colonel would rather have denounced the Dred Scott decision than admit to Judge Whipple that one of the greatest weaknesses of the South lay in her lack of mechanical and manufacturing ability. [9]
Indefinite testimonies might properly be waste-basketed, since there is evidently no lack of definite ones procurable; but this C. S. magazine is poorly edited, and so mistakes of this kind must be expected. [5]
Indefinite testimonies might properly be waste-basketed, since there is evidently no lack of definite ones procurable, but this C.S. [5]
It seemed a pity that lack of funds should have brought this excellent educational venture to an untimely end. [5]
Captain Smith was perhaps too serious a knight to see the humor of these encounters, but he does not lack humor in describing them, and he adopted easily the witty courtesies of the code he was illustrating. [4]
These men, who performed their duties with great lack of consideration, had supposed that they had provided for all the expected arrivals, but, after counting heads, they discovered that the billets were sufficient for only half the number. [10]
In three months Patty's suppers grew famous in a colony where there was no lack of good cooks. [9]
I knew than Patty put honour and honesty before all else in the world, and that she would not have suffered my friendship for a day had she believed me to lack either. [9]
Did not the outlines of Althea's figure, which the bombyx robe only partially concealed, lack roundness even more than her own? [10]
The progress which our trade owed to the Hohenstaufen proves this; the years without an Emperor, on the contrary, showed what threatens our commerce as soon as we lack this aid. [10]
A woman's logic, or lack of logic--her logic. [9]
People had small opportunity, however, of showing a lack of respect to his person, for in these days he noticed no one and spoke to none. [9]
Now I lack only one thing more--yourself! [10]
The lack of one will soon be proof that a man is a knave. [4]
For lack of one I had been rudely jolted out of the frail shell I had thought so secure, and stood, as it were, naked and shivering to the storms, staring at a world that was no function of me, after all. [9]
But if any one does go, he need not lack occupation. [4]
But he declined, on the plea of inexperience, diffidence in public, lack of curiosity, and I didn't know what all. [5]
My life-long habit of unwillingness to accept what life sent in its ordinary course was asserting itself; but Maude took her friends as she found them, and I was secretly annoyed by her lack of discrimination. [9]
At the time of this writing he did not altogether lack the sympathy of the Street, and an increasing number of people were not sorry to see Mr. Mavick get the worst of it in repeated trials of strength. [4]
Speaking of one of them one day, Father Damon had said that it seemed a pity a fellow of such family and capacity and fortune should go to the devil merely for the lack of an object in life. [4]
She was thinking of the way conventions hold and bind us; of the lack of freedom in the lives of all, unless they live in wild places beyond the social pale. [11]

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