Yuean was recognized as an able man, although he lacked trustworthiness and intellectual ability; it seemed possible to make use of him and simultaneously to satisfy him by giving him a position within the Republican framework.
The conservative members, supporting Yuean, walked out, and the Council lacked a quorum.
The humiliation of his defeat lacked even dramatic compensations, and he died in June, 1916, of disease, poison, or chagrin.
Despite demonstrations of his personal capacity and bravery, he felt that his work lacked momentum.
It was found that I lacked the loud, radiant, explosive voice necessary for circus effects, and I ceased to dream of distinction there.
Every instinct was urging her to flee, but she lackedthe strength.
Tudor had told her in plain terms that Jeanie lacked the strength to make any headway there.
The Vicar's wife obviouslylacked sufficient backbone to quarrel on the subject.
He obeyed the order because helacked the strength to do otherwise.
Although it lacked the refinements introduced by Lord Kelvin it was swung in double-cradles, and had the thirty-two points painted upon a card.
There is no evidence that he lacked any comfort or alleviation that money could buy; indeed he never had any great craving for the things that money can buy--only for money itself.
Then I looked at my new watch, and was amazed to find that it lacked but a few moments to the time set for our departure from the "Virginia Arms.
Then, not to hurt me, she said it was quite true that I did resemble her ideal, and only lacked years and titles and wealth and reputation to make me desirable for her.
It lacked an hour yet of the time appointed, and it was the suspense of that hour's waiting which set every nerve in my body aching.
For bushrangers he would have a modern Tyburn, but this and other tragic suggestions lacked conviction when confronted with his verdicts given as Justice of the Peace.
I challenge any to say that I lacked either respect or affection for him.
His entrance and words, abrupt, if not awkward, lacked alike the grace which all remembered in Charles, and the gloomy majesty which the second James had at his command.
For, though she had grown to love and admire many things in Java, the social life of the country, save for her little clique, lacked all charm for her.
Every weak spot was discovered and houses that otherwise would have been strong were borne down largely because our country lacked a proper banking system.
And the newslacked no confirmation at the barracks.
Large amounts were used annually for this purpose, but iron lacked strength, and single wire strand was not fully satisfactory on account of stretching in warm and contracting in cold weather, and of thus being broken.
He has somewhat rashly been compared to Heine, whom he profoundly admired; but if he lacked the supreme touch of genius, he remains a delightful writer, who exercised a wise and sound influence upon the art of his generation.
They could not wed, for she was a foreigner, and their union in consequence lacked civil sanction; yet it was a real marriage in all but in name, based on the truest and tenderest affection, and dissolved only by death.
Whoever it was had charge of arranging his persecution lacked nothing in the way of imagination.
Voices sounded different, eyes shone strangely, feet touched the ground as though it lacked solidity.
Owing to the closeness of their union, their spying system, and their energy, it was easy for them to provide for those who lacked employment or food.
In short, the "Society of Friends" lacked the leaven of inspiration, the only quality which ultimately bears fruit.
They especially lacked eloquence, the indispensable means by which public opinion is influenced and ruled, and its follies and hollow emptiness are made apparent.
For he was easy-going, and disliked the gloomy piety of the German and Polish Jews; and though impressed by it, he lackedfervor to yield to its influence.
He lacked an appreciation for history, for things petty on close view, but great in perspective, for the comic and tragic course of the human race during the progress of time.
He lacked a mother's care, for the countess had long been dead, but he was watched over and counselled by Father Norham, an excellent man, who had been chaplain to the late earl.
Then Roosevelt himself spoke, and although he lacked nothing of his usual vehemence, he seemed to be controlled by a sense of the solemnity of their purpose.
Most of the internal reforms which Roosevelt struggled for lacked the dramatic quality or the picturesqueness which appeals to average, dull, unimaginative men and women.
He lacked just that touch of tender human sympathy that made Monella's mere look so fascinating to those with whom he came in contact, and that bound so thoroughly to him those who yielded to its subtle influence.
Eneas, like his brother, was intensely proud of his good health, and in the contemptuous way he alluded to anybody who lacked good-health he suggested that the ill-health was due to a moral lapse.
Those numerous charities were no doubt a pleasure and a pride to their originator, but Jasmine, who lacked the sustenance of the egotism that inspired them, was only impressed by the continuous reminder they gave her of the world's misery.
Granting that his brother the bear lacked perfection in details, his own figure as monkey was not necessarily ideal or decorative, nor was he in the least sure what form it might take even in one generation.
While courtly, polished, and refined in externals, he lacked in tact and nicety of discrimination.
All that my guarded scrutiny could gather was that Miss Warren was a little too devoted and thoughtful of her urbane lover, and that her cheerfulness lacked somewhat in spontaneity.
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