Poles, author's lack of confidence in.

To-day, sin is thought a somewhat brusque word, lacking in polish.

The hunting was difficult, and the quarry, as time went on, more and more suspicious, but henceforward we did not lack for fresh meat.

It seemed to me that my head touched the skies, and that nothing was lacking to the culmination of my ecstatic bliss.

Frenzy, which had distorted the muscles and lit the eyes with a baleful glare, was lacking at this moment.

'I saw onea real live soldier, a corporal with two gold stripes on his red coat, and such white gloves; and I went up to him and talked to him.' 'Certainly modesty is lacking with you,' observed Mrs. Platt drily.

The key to the wine-vault was the only key which was lacking from the bunch left at Miss Cumberland's.

Bethmann-Hollweg when addressing the Reichstag drew a terrifying picture of French armies standing ready to invade Belgium, but he knew full well that the necessary base-fortresses were lacking on the Franco-Belgian frontier.

For, while they are inferior to us in quantity both of soldiers and of money and in diversity of equipment, in no one respect are they so strikingly lacking as in the age and inexperience of their general.

what lack ye? What is it you will buy?

And all had been a-lack through great thousands of years, as she did know of their Records, and had grown dim-lit and lonesome, and a Land of deepness to starve the spirit with an utter strangeness and discomfort, where that the men went quietly as ghosts, through many ages; and all a place in dire want of sound and laughter.

Then it came into the minister's mind, thinking over Faber's religion toward his fellows, and his lack toward God, how when the young man asked Jesus what commandments he must keep up that he might inherit eternal life, Jesus did not say a word concerning those of the first tablenot a word, that is, about his duty toward God; He spoke only of his duty toward man.

The virtues of bodily cleanliness were taught, and the people were given that personal attention which was entirely lacking under Turkish rule.

Detailed statistics are lacking until the first federal census, when indigo was rapidly giving place to sea-island cotton; but the requirements of the new staple differed so little from those of the old that the plantations near the end of the century were without doubt on much the same scale as before the Revolution.

Moreover, what Patrao may have lacked by way of adequate resources was made up in having his priorities right.

Any impression of them would be lacking without some reference to sea food.

In conversation with friends I have found that the current belief that love must have been always and everywhere the same, because it is such a strong and elemental passion, is most easily shaken in this a priori position by pointing out that there are other strong feelings in our minds which were lacking among earlier and lower races.