Indeed, loess is lacking in the western and drier parts of the great plains and is best developed in the well-watered states of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri.
Nevertheless, it has a certain degree of observational support of a kind which is wholly lackingin the other two cases.
After this chapter was in type, St. John[C] announced his interesting discovery that oxygen is apparently lacking in the atmosphere of Venus.
I am happy in the consciousness that it is not courage which is lacking in this command; it is only experience.
I have stood beside many thousands; not one has been unkind--lacking in deference.
We shall do well to see, with distinctness, what was lacking in his faith, in order that we ourselves may profit by this touchingly interesting narrative.
But there was lacking too much on his part for an honest man to stoop and gather what presented.
They go through life leaving a string of baited traps behind them, lacking courage to go back and see what they have caught.
So he fled, and they howled behind him that he was an unpatriotic Anglomaniac, born to consume fruits, one totally lacking in public spirit.
It is natural to assume that the great grain market of the Piraios was such an extended stoa, as was likewise the so-called Basilica of Paestum, a structure of three aisles, lacking exterior enclosure.
The inhabitants of the land were generally obliged to content themselves with drying the clay in the sun, making up by the great thickness of the masonry for the firmness lacking to the material.
But as the individual disappeared in the mass of the Egyptian people, so the appreciation of individuality was almost wholly lacking in the Egyptian artist.
A square abacus plinth is the only medium between shaft and ceiling, the two columns of the vestibule lacking even this.
It is rendered still more unimportant by the curved ridge of the brows lacking decision, and the eye itself wanting in depth.
It may be seen from contemporary wall-paintings that the discipline maintained during the work of construction was not lacking in strictness, but it was certainly not that excessive oppression generally imagined.
The frieze is lacking from the entablature, in recognition of the fact that roof and ceiling are here one and the same member.
The soil was of good clay for the manufacture of bricks, but fuel was lacking with which to burn and harden them.
Strange intensity of these visions of love printed on the very floor of his thought and nevertheless lacking in contour!
Lacking which, all that remained for the time being was the enlarging of photographs at laughable prices.
It had been lacking during the earlier part of his life; but it had revealed itself to him in the cellars of the Conciergerie with the suddenness and emphasis of a clap of thunder.
Not that it is lacking in action--there is battle, murder, and sudden death enough to stir the most jaded reader of romance.
The good city was not lacking in gibbets, gallows, or pillories.
It is a triumph of its own “active” type of art (where movement and life are aimed at), but wholly lackingin beauty or ideality.
Admirable in composition and painting, but lacking the simplicity and delicacy of colour of his earlier work.
Lord Henry Somerset has too much heart and too little art to make a good poet, and such art as he does possess is devoid of almost every intellectual quality and entirely lacking in any intellectual strength.
Her style, though somewhat lacking in grace, is, at its best, simple and strong.
Occasionally he wearies the reader by tedious enumerations of plants, lacking indeed reticence and tact and selection in many of his descriptions, but, as a rule, he is very pleasant when he is babbling of green fields.
It is somewhat lacking in actuality, and the picturesque style in which it is written rather contributes to this effect, lending the story beauty but robbing it of truth.
Doubtless hypotheses are not lacking in reply to the point in question.
The passage was very long, the wife was taken ill, and lacking proper care and nourishment, did not live to reach there.
It was I who had sought to deprive the party of the presence, counsel and support of a member lacking whom it would have been but a body without a soul.
To the rest, these poor bones might indeed bear mute witness to a tragedy, but a tragedy lacking outlines, vague, impersonal, without poignancy.
Mauclair's writing: his theorizing and pseudo-science now strike me as silly, and his judgements seem lacking in perspicacity.
Lacking genuine inspiration, struggling in consequence to impart life by tricks and conventions, he occasionally allowed himself to tumble into downright vulgarity.
The adaptation, however, was lacking in much, and though Miss Marie Burroughs and Maurice Barrymore played in it, success did not attend its dramatic life.
On the barn floor there was dancing--that is, whoever succeeded in capturing a two-foot space twirled around on it and tried to make up by shouting for what was lacking in motion.
Lacking in real originality, he was yet sincere in the expression of his emotion, and his faultless form clothed the utterance of a soul of rare purity and nobility.
A king lacking the customary attributes of his station; a royal court governed by the rules that regulate any simple middle-class household--surely here is a contradiction sufficient in itself to attract the Comic Muse.
Are you lacking in magnanimity, which is the disposition of great souls?
Her haste to triumph was lackingboth in dignity and judgment.
My poor old room at Possum Gully was lacking in barest necessaries.
Yet surely his complaint is grounded; surely the speech of Englishmen is too often lacking in generous ardour, the better part of the man too often withheld from the social commerce, and the contact of mind with mind evaded as with terror.
He could understand the old man's point of view, rough and gruff though he was, and he was notlacking in a certain respect for him.
Von Boehlen's tone was not lacking in the least in courtesy.
When he was not composing or playing he sometimes felt very uncertain of himself, lacking in self-confidence.
That which is behind is also more safe in his hand than if it were in thine own; he is wise, he is powerful, he is faithful, and therefore will manage that part that is lacking to our salvation well, until he has completed it.
