Then there is the familiar adage applied to the man who lacks steady application, "A rolling stone gathers no moss," with which may be compared another, "Seldom mosseth the marble-stone that men [tread] oft upon.

The dog has suggested sundry plant names, this prefix frequently suggesting the idea of worthlessness, as in the case of the dog-violet, which lacks the sweet fragrance of the true violet, and the dog-parsley, which, whilst resembling the true plant of this name, is poisonous and worthless.

The saints' days you speak of have long since fled to heaven with Astræa, and the cold piety of the age lacks fervor to recall them; only Peter left his key,the iron one of the two that "shuts amain,"and that is the reason I am locked up.

Hence at each sound imagination glows; [The MS. lacks a line here.

But in Rustem the tears of anguish and sorrow seem to vanish like morning dew, in the excitement of fresh adventure, and human feeling, as depicted by Firdusi, lacks not only the refined gradations, but also the intensity, which we see in the Florentine poet.

Needless to say that McIntyre lacks humor.

An old man may be all very well when he has reigned for twenty years and men are used to him, and he used to the task, as was Augustus; but an old man new to the throne lacks energy.

I'll lay a crown you are a counterfeit, And that, you know, lacks money of a noble.

Who lacks money, ho! who lacks money?

Who lacks money, ho! who lacks money?

At some schools the lecturer on this subject is appointed apparently for the reason that he lacks the qualifications to lecture on any other.

It lacks the cunning of that rare old Baptist bird, who once went by the name of Birney, and it is devoid of that learned and masterly eloquence so finely worked by the last minister of the chapel, who used to read some of his sermons over to the deacons, before trying them upon the other sinners in the chapel; still it is sincere, straight- forward, and theologically sound.

He is the right kind of man for humble, queer-thinking; determined, sincerely-singular Christians; is just the sort of person you should hear when the "blues" are on you; has much pathos, much fire, much uncurbed virtue in him; is a sort of theological Bailey's Dictionaryrough, ready, outspoken, unconventional, and funny; is a second Gadsby in oddness, and force, and sincerity, but lacks Gadsby's learning.

There is something venerable and monastic, something substantial and coldly powerful about the front; but the general building lacks beauty of outline and gracefulness of detail.

Gustave lacks the literary aptitudes of his late father, likewise, who left a well-filled book of verse which admirers all over Europe did into French, German, Italian, Danish, and even Hungarian.

She lacks of him nothing but heat.

His staff and his scrip are his walking furniture, and what he lacks in meat he will have out in drink.

24, if it were translated thus, "when Noah knew what his little son,"[B] or grandson (Beno Hakkatan) "had done unto him, he said cursed be Canaan," &c. Further, even if the Africans were the descendants of Canaan, the assumption that their enslavement fulfils this prophecy, lacks even plausibility, for, only a fraction of the inhabitants of Africa have at any time been the slaves of other nations.

I believe, like George, that he lacks spirit.

"Have you not heard it," man cried to man"the Palazzo Pisani lacks a mistress to-day?

Jim is all right, but he lacks your magnetism, and your light, firm touch.

No troops are more military than the first line Germans; but in the snap and spirit of his salute the French Territorial has an élan, a martial fervour, which the phlegmatic German in the thirties lacks.

If it lacks the fame which seems its due, that may be because he was too busy to take the Press into his confidence.

In so far as it lacks this 'soul-compelling power,' it may be said, not unfairly, to fail of its own artistic purpose.

It is a good, large country town,in fact, it has some time since come under city regulations,thinking sufficiently well of itself, and, for that which it lacks, only twenty miles from the metropolis.