But even you and I, however much we may love the woods, however we may enjoy these occasional tramps among their shady solitudes, would not enjoy them as a residence; and yet I have sometimes thought I should love to spend the summers in a forest home, alone with nature, with my pen and books, a fishing-rod and rifle to supply my wants, and a friend to talk with occasionally.

My father was not one of those who set little value on book learning, from their own consciousness of not possessing it: on the contrary, he would often remark, that as he felt the want of a liberal education himself, he was determined to bestow one on me.

It exists in all ordinary articles of diet, but in quantities not sufficient to meet the wants of the bodily tissues.

So abstemious and self-denying was he, that his mode of life resembled that of a hermit; and, at the same time, so liberal was he in relieving the wants of otherswhether his own countrymen or the red Indiansthat, if his wife had not been a careful and clever manager, they must often have been reduced to absolute want.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Rough fellows would ride up at the darkening, bringing a line from Mercer, or more often an agreed password, and he had to satisfy their wants and remember their news.

During that meal Willie devoted himself to a silent waiting upon her, watching and trying to anticipate her every want.

My friend received my verdict with an expression which showed a sad want of respect for authority.

I was, in truth, pretty done at this stage, chiefly through want of sleep, compared to which I always found want of food a trifling inconvenience.

The tone did not indicate a want of sympathy in the compassion of his daughter.

The Lancers, now running at WALLACK'S, (a proceeding which implies no want of bravery on the part of that distinguished corps,) is, however, unlike most military dramas, inasmuch as it is a bright and brilliant play.

They experience an irritating difficulty in understanding questions and expressing their wants and desires, and so are declared to be vicious, or stupid.

'It fills a long felt want,' and you are a national benefactor for writing it." GEN.

We regretted the want of the native language, as we could not have the same command over the meeting as would otherwise have been the case.

In Young's "Night Thoughts" there are many examples of the PSEUDO-imaginative, betraying an utter want of steady Vision.

What a misfortune it was, that I should not know this before, but shou'd discover my want of so necessary a piece of Grandeur.

Put to it like that, Siner concocted a sort of allegory, telling of a negro who was shiftless in the summer and suffered want in the winter, and applied it to the present high wage and to the low wage that was coming;

Lieutenant Beverly did not show any great liking for them; but he was a Northerner, brought up on baking-powder biscuits, so the others could understand his want of appreciation.

She says, "What dost thou want?"

It has been often mentioned ludicrously, but with too much truth, that strong liquors are to the meaner people, meat, drink, and clothes; that they depend upon them alone for sustenance and warmth, and that they desire to forget their wants in drunkenness rather than supply them.

And in that 'Retraite Infernale,' as one of its historians has called it, I saw want, hunger, cupidity, cruelty, disease, stalking beside the war fiend; so no wonder that, like Zola, I regard warfare as the greatest of abominations that fall upon the world.

After due praise and acknowledgment, he explained his wants.

Thus the operation which was intended to prevent irregularity becomes the cause of its occurrence, and that in its very worst form, producing a want of accordance between the size of the teeth and that of the jaw.

We should extremely lament this want of energy, or whatever it may be, on our parts, were it not for one consolationnamely, that we are no better acquainted with the meaning of the book through which we have so painfully toiled than we are with that of the three which we have not looked into.

That shew a want of judgment and of sense: More than enough is but impertinence.