Miss Atterbury wants something with a bite, rather than a bark, and a terrier wouldn't do," the boy answered.

"What does he want?" "He wants to see you, sir; very bad, I should say.

Here's a man kills himself, and Godfrey wants us to believe that death resulted from a scratch on the hand.

He wants me to come down right away," and I reached for my hat and coat.

"In fact, I am of the opinion that there is somebody who wants to enter those rooms very badly.

Every failure to meet the natural necessities or wants of the animal body, in respect to food, air, cleanliness, and protection, has, in its own way, and in its due proportion, diminished the power that might otherwise have been created; and every misapplication has again reduced that vital capital which was already at a discount.

" A new and improved code of medical regulations, and a new and rational system of sanitary administration, suited to the wants and liabilities of the human body, were devised and adopted for the British army, and their conditions are established and carried out with the most happy results.

But even this is inadequate to the wants of its people and its stock.

Russia wants water, both here and in the far East.

After we had seen to the wants of the dogs we could then think of ourselves.

Will you, too, treat the poor wild uneducated sportsman as a Pariah and an outcast, because he is not ashamed to be a man?because he cannot stuff his soul's hunger with cut-and-dried hearsays, but dares to think for himself? because he wants to believe things, and dare not be satisfied with only believing that he ought to believe them?' She paused, astonished. 'Ah, yes,' he went on, 'I hoped too much!

meeting alike the wants of the king and the beggar, the artist and the devotee . . .

Yes; and he wants another to pair it done within a fortnight, so I must rise early and labour hard, for the days are short; but I was better remunerated than commonly, which makes it worth my while to put myself to a little inconvenience.'

In those moments she silenced her own wants, lest she should disturb her in her reveries, and humbly prayed for the happiness of her child.

It is no great riches, but it is sufficient for the unforeseen wants that may press upon a woman.

When Edoardo began to tell her some feigned story, to conceal the shameful source of his wants, and to give her an account of how he had employed those sums, she would not listen to him.

What afflicted and troubled her was, that her labour should be so insufficient to meet his wants.

But his business was sufficient for the supply of his wants and those of his family, and so he studied and worked on, and was content.

The Madonna will have hard work to look after him!" "Don Ambrogio just wants to cram us boys," Beppo confessed, in a confidential tone; "but it's no use knowing too much, even for a priest.

His wants were fewer than the simplest rule of his convent allowed, and it seemed less that he had triumphed over the usual earthly temptations than that he had been created abnormally free from them that his whole strength might spend itself in the solving of problems.

As far as I can make out, he wants to be quite certain what these fellows are up to before he strikes.

"I'm open for anything, especially if it wants a bit of physical violence.

He wants to get away as soon as possible.

His bosom must not be searched, his will not disobeyed, his wants not unsupplied, nor his place unregarded.

And now, if any one wants to harm you, he will have me to deal with first.