Wanting

Examples

• Not wanting to go through the yard, because of the dogs, she turned off along the hill-side to descend on the pond from above. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The early habit of reading was wanting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• There was really nothing wanting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then you'll not be wanting me any more tonight, ma'am? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He would have been more and more sensible of what was wanting in his home. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Nothing was wanting on Mrs. Palmer's side that constant and friendly good humour could do, to make them feel themselves welcome. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Ah, well, said Mrs. Archer, I understand May's wanting her cousin to tell people abroad that we're not quite barbarians. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• You have done the only thing wanting to complete my happiness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Away, seek them out instantly--and hark thee, if a byzant or two will sharpen their memory, let them not be wanting. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Such acts were not wanting to adorn the grim train that waited on the progress of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• However, she always said yes to whatever people asked her, wanting courage or character to beg leave to differ from anybody's opinion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He went to town on business three days ago, and I got him to take charge of some papers which I was wanting to send to John. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Accepting your illustration, surely we have one unquestionable virtue in England which is wanting in China. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am constantly wanting you to draw him for me, Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• What is wanting to it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This is what I find principally wanting in their reasonings, and what I shall here endeavour to supply. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She was occupied in knitting; a large cat sat demurely at her feet; nothing in short was wanting to complete the beau-ideal of domestic comfort. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You are wanting to find out if there is anything uncomfortable for you to do now, only because Mr. Casaubon wished it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If you go upon arguments, they are never wanting, when a man has no constancy of mind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I think, dear, we are wanting in respect to mamma's memory, to put them by and take no notice of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It's this sort of thing--this tyrannical spirit, wanting to play bishop and banker everywhere--it's this sort of thing makes a man's name stink. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The Penns found here some strenuous advocates; nor were there wanting some who warmly espoused the side of the people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There is a strange unwholesome smell upon the room, like mildewed corduroys, sweet apples wanting air, and rotten books. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You know the kind of document, sir--wanting employ? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Invitations of the formal kind had been wanting, however, for Will had never been asked to go to Lowick. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is a beautiful case--a beautiful case--and what little is wanting to complete it, I expect to be able to supply in a few hours. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Emma made no answer, and tried to look cheerfully unconcerned, but was really feeling uncomfortable and wanting him very much to be gone. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Yet as he lingered before the flower-beds in the morning sunshine, there was a certain isolation, a fear about him, as of something wanting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If he be as little wanting to himself as to others, his character is entirely perfect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He had been wanting to do that all day and now he did it, he could feel his throat swelling. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Checker: Roderick