Nothing could have happened to give us who crouched amid the stunted bushes a more vivid idea of the change which had come over the besieging army than this one incident, when the commanders, at whose frowns savages as well as white men cringed, were treated with such utter lack of ceremony.

Fortunately for the revolt, there was a total lack of leadership on the Royalist side, excusable only on the ground that the officers could not rely on their men.

"What makes it mysterious," Godfrey explained, "is the apparent lack of motive.

Probably, because she always grows fat, from sheer lack of will-power to resist sloth and gluttonythe only agreeable vices left her; and by no stretch of the imagination can a fat woman be converted into either a pleasing or heroic figure.

The slump in her production, which is carried on amidst all the difficulties, the fall in her credit, the absolute lack of foreign exchanges, the difficulty of trading with the hostile populations which surround her, put Austria in an extremely difficult position and in progressive and continuous decadence.

And to each part thereof belongs Thy love: But for the general welfare wisely planned The parts must suffer change;they do not die, For nature ebbs and flows eternally; But to such change we give the name of Death Or Evil, whensoe'er we feel the strife Which for the universe is joy and life, Though for each part it seems mere lack of breath.

Hitherto, many of them have evinced a sad lack of judgment in respect of matter.

Envy of Mr. Simmons was mingled with amazement at his deplorable lack of taste and common sense.

A mighty multitude was crowded within the walls, and there was a plentiful lack of meat.

I felt the sweat start on my forehead, and was only able to force myself into some show of self-possession by the evident lack of perfect assurance with which this same lawyer now addressed his client.

But here as elsewhere, in the ardent application of ideas, there is a notable lack of simple comparison or sensibility to resemblance.

It was a pity, he said, and the result of the comparative lack of critical spirit in America that Mr. Roosevelt had been a hero so long.

CHAPTER XXII THE SPIDER AND THE FLY It is to be feared that there is a lamentable lack of local color in the present narrative.

However, just at the moment when airwork was of extreme importance to the Turks, the German flying men, recognising that our pilots had new battle planes and were full of resource and daring, showed an unusual lack of enterprise, and we profited from their inactivity.

Gifted in many ways, and popular with both men and women, he has swung on his course with an easy disregard of the claims of others, which, while leaving its traces no doubt in many a humble and uncomplaining heart, did not attract notice to his inherent lack of principle, until the horrors of this tragedy lifted him into public view stripped of all his charms.

There was a curious lack of anything peremptory in his manner, yet somehow, although she would have given the world to have passed for a few moments into the shelter of the little kitchen beyond, she was impelled to do as he bade her.

Abandoning every suggestion of frivolity, he weighed the testimony of each white witness and pointed out its obvious lack of probative value.

It may imply very little lack of physical stability.

Gradually, all sense of her own individual hurts in Stephen's words, in his acts, in the weakening of the bond which held them together, died out, and left behind it only a sense of bereavement and loss; while the first horror of Stephen's wrong-doing, of the hopeless lack in his moral nature, came back with twofold intensity.

Perhaps they lacked those qualities to offset the feminine lack of coyness.

"We have beat about the bush long enough," he said, with an abrupt lack of suavity.

They tried, with signal lack of success, to catch fish, Indian fashion, through a hole in the ice.

Northern Christians have been ready to believe, that the South would give up her slaves, because of her conscious lack of title to them.

It was worth one's while to note the expression upon his countenance as he stood there and as he finally stalked away, whistling Yankee Doodle, with perhaps, a slight lack of precision, but with tremendous spirit and significance.

Whether it hit any one I can't positively affirm, but I heard a dull heavy sound, a kind of chug, as if it had struck against something soft, and the scream of one of the belligerents was brought to a sudden stop, by a sort of hysterical jerk, as though there had been a sudden lack of wind to carry it on.