Which preposition to use with wanting
Gambetta made some bitter attacks on the Royalists, accusing them of mauvaise foi and want of patriotism.
At first, they were chaotic and wanting in coherence.
We were giving a ball at the Quai d'Orsay a few nights afterward, and had also asked a great many peopleall the ambassadors sent in very large lists of invitations they wanted for their compatriots, but much the largest was that sent in by the American minister.
"You can laugh all you're wanting to.
Then Wesley went out to the angry crowd, and standing on a chair asked, "What do you want with me?"
What you want at the moment is right, and only that; with us nothing is real until we have tried and proved it.
" "I shall not bother him any more, sir, as I have had all I want from him," was my answer.
"True," he replied; "this man's conduct cannot be explained upon any rational principlesbut he is one of the Glonglims, of which I have spoken to you; and examples are not wanting on our planet, of conduct as irreconcilable to reason.
Nature helps to supply these wants by growing cranberries and other wild fruits in abundance, but men in summer are usually too busy to avail themselves of these.
"Ain't it fair, Lenie, in love and war and business a man has got to scheme for what he wants out of life?
When I returned I found her waiting there, and she demanded that I should give her up the paper she wanted as a matter of gratitude.
" It is curious to see how soon travellers get past that first cheeckalko feeling that it is a little "nervy," as the Boy had said, to walk into another man's house uninvited, an absolute stranger, and take possession of everything you want without so much as "by your leave.
"I should think myself very much wanting in justice and gratitude, if I should neglect thanking your Excellency, you gentlemen of the Council, and you gentlemen of the Assembly, for the assistance which you have given to the Colony of Georgia.
It is not that we are poorer or more penurious than our ancestors, but that we have more wants than they, and that the new wants overshadow the old.
He's just chock full of woods lore, and can give you all the points you want about animals and such.
It must blow a gale, and that over a considerable extent of open sea, to produce much commotion among the fields and bergs, though that heaving and setting, which has been likened to the respiration of some monster, and which seamen call the "ground-swell," is never entirely wanting among the waters of an ocean.
Let us go into the wood, and procure what we want before the sun sets, and our mother comes out to see what progress we have made.' ‘No, Henrich,' replied his sister; 'do not go this evening.
" "If fitly match'd be man and wife, No pleasure's wanting to their life.
The Kadiak bear finds no trouble in getting all the food he wants during the berry season and during the run of the various kinds of salmon, which lasts from June until October.
That's the secret why I can have any office I want under the present administration.
* "There is only one thing wanting between you two."
The Homeric hero makes a great deal of honour; but it is honour paid to himself, living; what he wants above everything is to be admired"always to be the best"; that is what true heroism is.
Joy it were to me, O tree, Consciousness to want like thee. Where the grounds are wet and low, There the trees of goat-peach grow.
Neither were examples wanting of the most absurd and apparently dishonoring nicknames being elsewhere adopted by powerful political parties.
How is it we are no longer able to communicate the secrets to the suffering world which are able to transmute the people's want into God's plenty, and attract and hold the hearts of men with the joys of the Vision Splendid?