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Sentences starting with wanting

Wanting to work is so rare a want that it should be encouraged. [7]

Sentences ending with wanting

In four years,--four years of battle-days,--his endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried and never found wanting. [6]
In four years--four years of battle days--his endurance, his fertility of resource, his magnanimity, were sorely tried, and never found wanting. [7]
The cooks vied with them and with each other, and as if by magic, in a short space of time a richly-adorned banquet for the hungry guests appeared, at which even the flowers were not wanting. [10]
He it was who had weighed in the balance the fifteen applicants and found them wanting. [9]
Then my mind was made up, and I said: "Yes, everything is ready; everything is shipshape, no detail is wanting. [5]
And Mr. Plimpton was beginning to have the unusual and most disagreeable feeling of having been weighed in the balance and found wanting. [9]
Provisions were still wanting. [4]
Nor was beauty wanting. [4]
We are a tolerably assorted set,--difference enough and likeness enough; but still it seems to me there is something wanting. [6]
The chain seems to be complete, no important link wanting. [5]

Short sentences using wanting

Her reply was not wanting. [11]
What's wanting? [5]

Sentences containing wanting two or more times

For content consists not in having all we want, nor, in not wanting everything, nor in being unable to get what we want, but in not wanting that we can get. [4]
He would not, however, have dared to hold her hand on any other occasion, while always wanting to hold it, and wanting her also to share his not wholly reputed, though far from precarious, existence. [11]
I don't believe he ever budged a hairs-breadth from his original position about wanting to be a preacher and not wanting to be a business man. [8]

More example sentences with the word wanting in them

And it is worthy of passing mention, in regard to his later productions, that his admirable sense of literary proportion, which is wanting in many good writers, characterized his work to the end. [4]
He went out with a company from Hawkeye to the war, and was not wanting in courage, but he would have been a better soldier if he had been less engaged in contrivances for circumventing the enemy by strategy unknown to the books. [5]
Clarence said: "They will be wanting to send a scout or two in the dark to make preliminary observations. [5]
Strive for that which is wanting to you--the strength to subdue, to crush for One--and you know that One--all things else--even the misguiding voice of your heart, the treacherous voice of your judgment.--But stay! [10]
Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or other wanting help to get her out of some far-away castle where she was held in captivity by a lawless scoundrel, usually a giant. [5]
Your figure is well-suited to the trade of war, and you surely are not wanting in courage. [10]
Not a man was wanting, for at the four strokes of the rarely-sounded alarum every dweller in the House of Seti was expected to appear in the court of the temple. [10]
If any detail was wanting to round out and reward this knightly performance in strict accord with the old romances, it was supplied by the subsequent handsome conduct of Prince Sigismund. [4]
This wanting things was the corner-stone of my character, and I believe that the science of the future will bear me out when I say that it might have been differently built upon. [9]
Now that he was distinguished, maybe she would be wanting to "make up. [5]
His first shout was answered by an old man within, who presently appeared at the casement, wrapping some garment round his throat as a protection from the cold, and demanded who was abroad at that unseasonable hour, wanting him. [12]
He was always wanting us to buy things. [5]
It is never wanting to the diadem of the Pharaohs. [10]
You won't be wanting to stop in the Legislature, Mr. Crewe, and we remember our friends in Newcastle. [9]
All that was wanting to render him an almost perfect character was a few harsher traits and perhaps more masculine vigor. [6]
You are always wanting to know what he is looking for in his big books, so I plucked up courage to ask him, and now I know. [10]
And these people wanting the Boston house another year complicates it. [8]
There were not wanting some who liked the Professor better than the Autocrat. [6]
Nothing shall be wanting on my part to make my obedience your fidelity. [5]
There is something wanting in the education that only half educates people. [4]
There is not wanting even a lake; and there is, I am sorry to say, a temple on a mound, quite in the classic style, from which one can see the sun set behind the many spires of Munich. [4]
Instructions are not wanting as to the shape of the table and the size of the party; it is universally admitted that the number must be small. [4]
Nor was there wanting an exact facsimile and copy of little Jacob, as he appeared in those remote times when they taught him what oysters meant. [12]
The dwarf was very much exasperated, and wanting somebody to wreak his ill-humour upon, determined to dart out suddenly, and favour Mrs Quilp with a gentle acknowledgment of her attention in making that hideous uproar. [12]
I could fill up their places easy enough, for ever since that first book was wrote that called people's attention to my boarding-house, I've had more wanting to come than I wanted to keep. [6]
Nothing is wanting to your husband's happiness, save the love of Josephine. [11]
It was wanting to work a human brain to its last volt of capacity, and to see what it could do. [11]
It is hard to understand how she has learned to deal with abstract ideas, and so far to supplement the blanks left by the senses of sight and hearing that one would hardly think of her as wanting in any human faculty. [6]
Nothing is wanting to thy feast, most lordly Ani, but a poet, who might sing the glorious deeds of our monarch to the sound of his lute, and yet--we have at hand the gifted Pentaur, the noblest disciple of the House of Seti. [10]
Is anything wanting to this picture of the degradation of woman? [4]
It has come to such a pass that I never speak to the Man of the Monument without wanting to take my hat off and feeling as if I were looking down a vista of twenty or thirty centuries. [6]
What was wanting to make this charming camaraderie perfect? [4]
Nothing was wanting to give dignity to the spectacle. [4]
He's always wanting to fight with somebody. [9]
Nothing was wanting to complete her beauty. [5]
I'd been wanting to come East and have a look at you for some time, and I thought I might as well come now. [9]
You, too, seem to be wanting something. [9]
Failing to see this, he is isolated, and, wanting his sympathy, the untutored world mocks at his super-fineness and takes its own rough way to rougher ends. [4]
I do not think her money-passion has ever diminished in ferocity, I do not think that she has ever allowed a dollar that had no friends to get by her alive, but I think her reason for wanting it has changed. [5]
As the population then increased, and consequently the number of patients, space was wanting in which to house them, for the dilapidated Poor-house--whither they were carried--was no longer large enough to accommodate them all. [10]
If wanting in the variety of surface which many other towns can boast of, it has at least a vision of the distant summits of Monadnock and Wachusett. [6]
It got to the ears of Mormons--gossip of your love for Fay and your wanting her. [13]
The "Autocrat" had the attraction of novelty, which of course was wanting in the succeeding papers of similar character. [6]
Cairo was a tempered Orient--an Orient with an indefinite something wanting. [5]
I never see such an old ostrich for wanting to gobble everything --and I a-trusting you all the time, like you was my own father. [5]
The hour has struck at last--and the man is not wanting. [9]
But the gracious solace of tears seemed to be denied her, and her grief, like her anger, was a dull ache, longing, like that, to finish itself with a fierce paroxysm, but wanting its natural outlet. [6]
The fish were so wanting in taste as to disdain the sweet bait, but my early awakened love of sport kept me patiently a long time in the same spot, which was undoubtedly more agreeable to my mother than the bait was to the salmon. [10]
Beaton never felt so poignantly the disadvantage of having on any given occasion been wanting to his own interests through his self-love as in this. [8]
Nothing was wanting, so far as we could see, except that we should adapt ourselves to the circumstances; and that we have been trying to do ever since. [4]
The Curb almost smiled, for it seemed as if Margot were finding herself wanting. [11]
Nor were charming single effects wanting. [4]
During these years signs of dissolution, of death, were not wanting. [9]
If these go shopping without a gentleman or a man-servant, they are tolerably sure to be subjected to petty insolences --insolences of manner and tone, rather than word, though words that are hard to bear are not always wanting. [5]
In the last set, not one body out of the thirty-six was "found totally wanting in departures from the standard descriptions of the muscular system given in anatomical text books. [1]
I was purely selfish in wanting you to go. [4]
Sonya had not seen anything, she was just wanting to blink and to get up when she heard Natasha say, "Of course she will! [2]
The things proposed seemed to March undignified, and even vulgar; he had never thought himself wanting in energy, though probably he had left the business to take its own course in the old lines more than he realized. [8]
As has been said, she did not intellectualize her reasons, but the core of her resistance was the very essence of an individuality having its roots in a self-respecting and self-controlling inheritance--an element wanting in her sister Lise. [9]
The shape is right, the attitude is right, the proportions are right, but that indescribable something which makes the Lion of Lucerne the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world, is wanting. [5]
But you must remember that ch is pronounced hard in Italian, like k, which letter is wanting in the Italian alphabet; and it is natural enough that the initial of the second name should have got changed in the record to its Italian equivalent. [6]
Then they are ready for a change, even if it were back again to a method which has already been tried, and found wanting. [3]
Another curious mark rarely wanting in the subjects of mental strabismus is an irregular and often sprawling and deformed handwriting. [6]
It was a pity; instead of going to these fine shows tired, sleepy, wanting repose more than anything else, we should have come to them fresh, in good condition, and had many days at our disposal. [6]
Seems 's if people stopped wanting 'em such weather. [4]
There was a peculiar exclusiveness about her, I might almost say a cool reserve, which, although proofs of her cordial love were not wanting, prevented her from caressing us or playing with us as grandmothers do. [10]
We have two or three young people with us who stand a fair chance of furnishing us the element without which life and tea-tables alike are wanting in interest. [6]
There everything stood or lay exactly as she had left it during the night, only the golden jars were wanting. [10]
There was only one thing wanting to make this home complete. [4]
There was only one thing wanting to make Mr. Walters' ecstasy complete, and that was a chance to deliver a Bible-prize and exhibit a prodigy. [5]
Lights were placed on antique candelabra, or, wanting these at suppers, there were living candleholders. [4]
Now, their pretense of wanting to see the fourteen--and the other two whom they had been less lucky with--was that commonest and mildest form of lying which is sufficiently described as a deflection from the truth. [5]
I hope none of us are wanting in reverence. [6]
Yet undeniably something of the romance of adventure in a visit to the White Hills is wanting, now that the railways penetrate every valley, and all the physical obstacles of the journey are removed. [4]
There's too much of the Climbers in us all--not social climbing, I mean, but wanting to get somewhere that has something for us, out in the big material world. [11]
At the bottom of her heart she had not forgiven them for not taking her rooms; she had liked their looks so much; and she was always hoping that they were uncomfortable or dissatisfied; she could not help wanting them punished a little. [8]
In order that nothing should be wanting to the ordinary course of a civilized community, a murder was committed. [4]
Money was fortunately not wanting, as the high treasurer was on their side. [10]
And examples were not wanting to encourage him. [5]
Still there were not wanting those who thought the advantage allowed the "Lantas," as they called the Corinna boatcrew, was too great, and that it would be impossible for the "Quins" to make it up and go by them. [6]
But there are not wanting stories, every day, to keep alive the imagination of tourists. [4]
Still there were not wanting some among the more respectable members of the medical profession who supported its claims. [6]
Certainly they were not wanting in Paris. [4]
Still, there have not been wanting readers who have preferred this second series of papers to the first. [6]
Her perception was none the less keen because definite terms were wanting for its expression. [9]
They may have no hold upon that class of persons who are defective in moral sensibility, just as other persons are wanting in an ear for music. [6]
Reading these letters, Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, he was living so calmly and quietly. [2]
Of things actually necessary to its existence and its happiness not a detail was wanting. [5]
This was the nearest approach to social order that the circumstances permitted, and, though strict legal authority was wanting, yet the people were firmly determined to maintain its efficiency, and to enforce its decrees. [5]
Look out upon nature, develop the faculty which you declare to be wanting, in you, and the beauty of creation will teach you without my assistance that you are praying to a false god. [10]
Everywhere there was music; the air was full of the odor of cheese and cooking sausage; so that there was nothing wanting to the most complete enjoyment. [4]
He has given me a copy of a work of his which seems to me not wanting in suggestiveness, and which I hope I shall be able to make some use of in my records by and by. [6]
All his life long he had deemed himself morally invulnerable, and now to be judged and ethically found wanting by the son of Sarah Austen was, at times, almost insupportable. [9]
I would just like to see Howells get down to his work and explain, and lie, and work his futile and inventionless subterfuges when that princess comes raging in here and wanting to know. [5]
Where the crystalline is wanting, as Mr. Ware long ago taught, no power of accommodation remains. [3]
But when, as is true, we find it wanting in all these claims to the public confidence, it is not resistance, it is not factious, it is not even disrespectful, to treat it as not having yet quite established a settled doctrine for the country. [7]
Then came the interpretation: "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting. [11]
There it was in the wall; and there was Dolores a long way from home and wanting to get back. [11]
The customary bustle in the streets was wanting. [5]
You'll find chalk in the side of the chimney where there's a brick wanting. [5]

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