Lacks

Examples

• Sisal also lacks the flexibility of Manila, being much more stiff and harsh. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Eginhard lacks vividness; he tells many particulars, but not the particulars that make a man live again in the record. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The future just as future lacks urgency and body. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• However brave the followers are, unless the leader is equally so, their valor is not of much use, as it lacks discipline and trust in the general. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It is the one quality which Gregory lacks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He lacks at birth and for a long time thereafter power to make his way physically, to make his own living. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The small weight makes up in distance what it lacks in magnitude. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The picture lacks nothing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Benton lacks a very great deal of being a good hotel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No modern telephone system in use to-day lacks these characteristic features--the varying resistance and the induction coil. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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