Lacked

Examples

• But Scipio Africanus lacked that harder alloy which makes men great democratic leaders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I did my best to feed her well and keep her warm, and she only asked food and sunshine, or when that lacked, fire. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The church, in comparison with its later state, was more in the hands of local laymen and the local ruler; it lacked its later universality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If, in the moments I and my pupil spent with him, I lacked spirits and sank into inevitable dejection, he became even gay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Lily uttered a faint laugh--for once Mrs. Fisher lacked originality. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They lacked that broader faith and understanding which induces men simply to study the stars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I lacked not words now; fast I narrated; fluent I told my tale; it streamed on my tongue. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But he lacked the wisdom of Darius, and would not retreat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Even then he lacked his ordinary exuberance of life, and it appeared as if a great portion of his vitality disappeared with the sun. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Lacking qualitative distinctions, nature lacked significant variety. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They were generally one-wheeled machines, lacked flexibility of parts and were costly. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There lacked nothing to this great occasion but a noble imagination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A slip-up at one spot might cause such a delay as would result if, for instance, hundreds of thousands of the inside pages were printed and ready for binding, but lacked the printed covers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But it lacked any agency for securing the development of its ideal as was evidenced in its falling back upon Nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• That is all thou hast lacked, she said to Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There has only lacked those! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Had she lacked patience, pliancy and dissimulation? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• That's what you always say, returned Trenor, whose expletives lacked variety. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It lacked the sweet clearness, therefore, of fearless thought. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They lacked confidence or did not care to increase their investments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Eustacia's face burnt crimson at the unexpected collision of incidents, and filled it with an animation that it too frequently lacked. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He lacked the calm of force, but its movement and its fire he signally possessed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In that respect he had an imaginative greatness Napoleon lacked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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