We mean the usually received text, seeing that the folio edition of 1623 contains some passages which are wanting in the quarto edition, and vice versâ.
As to Jonson's passion for the cup that does more than cheer, neither he himself conceals it, nor is evidence to the same effect wanting on the part of his contemporaries.
All those beautiful precepts, also, which Laertes gives to his sister, arewanting in the quarto of 1603.
Nor is the priest wanting who is to drive out the hyperbolical fiend from the captive Malvolio: an unmistakeable allusion to Ben Jonson's conversion in prison.
Fancy daddy, Russ," laughed Alice, "wanting us to give up a chance to go to sea just because he dreamed of a shipwreck!
The only one near him was Lacomb, and what object could he have in wanting to drown Jack?
Twice he came back from the window, wanting to kiss his mother, but he feared the delight of it might waken her, so at last he played her a lovely kiss on his pipe, and then he flew back to the Gardens.
These characteristics are almost entirelywanting in the non-metals.
The flame of an oil lamp contains most of the rays which arewanting in the sunlight.
Her slow-witted guardian had no objection to offer; and there were not wanting go-betweens to urge on Rossiter with stories of her wealth and the expanding value of her financial interests.
She was alwayswanting to bring this Vivien Warren here.
He must keep faith with Honoria who would be wanting a long holiday in Switzerland; and their joint business must not suffer by his absence from London.
Vivie and she had gone away because she had some fad or other about not wanting to marry?
According much praise to William Ellery Channing, and not a little to Cornelius Matthews, a now almost forgotten writer, Margaret declares Mr. Lowell to be "absolutely wanting in the true spirit and tone of poesy.
Little more was wanting to begin to construct the city; but that little was wanting, and the work of construction is left to those that come after him.
The title finally given was adopted in accordance with the wishes of friends, who thought the other wanting in clearness.
Not wanting in imaginative power, she has the rarest good sense and discretion.
Scarcely a type was wantingamong those who came to see how the nation's wards were drilled and prepared to defend the nation's honor and maintain peace at the point of the bayonet.
The fowls often become pets to their keepers, and the individual oddities and peculiarities of character form an amusing study which is not wanting in practical advantages.
He was tall, narrow-chested, and angular, and that part of the human body which shows whether a man enjoys the good things of life, was altogether wanting in him.
Now God has created many different kinds of men, each of whom has his own special capacity; there was one thing that was completelywanting in Godfrey's composition, and that was all comprehension of agricultural subjects.
A conception that has a soul in it will find itself a body, and if not a literary body, one furnished by some other of the fine arts; or, wanting that, in practical enterprise or invention.
The Chinese, on the other hand, are wanting in this sensibility; hence their prosaic, finite civilization.
But menwanting this inward wealth, that is, wanting depth and breadth of emotional capacity, have not, whatever their other gifts, the soil needed for highly imaginative poetry.
Poulain wanting to get a nurse for you; perhaps he has his eye on your treasures.
The passionless, perfectly righteous man is not human; he is a monster, an angel wanting wings.
In those days it was not uncommon, and the quality of mercy was sadly wanting in the human heart.
During the night Pausanias withdrew his army to a new position in front of the town of Platæa, water being wanting where they were.
He had the right, yes; but he had been wanting in tact.
I don't know," he said, as if not wanting to continue the subject; and he turned round so as to rest his elbows on the taffrail.
Can't men be friends with you,' I asked, 'without wanting to marry you?
I don't blame the boy for wanting to stay here where he will be dry.
There were hundreds of fish moving about, up and down, and round and round, hesitating about following up the thread of the fresh water, and not wanting to go back to the salt water, which lay behind them.
Some of these purported to come from friends, detailing conversations of diabolical character which had been overheard--others told him only an opportunity was wanting to execute the threats previously made.
Mr. Webster replied, that the time was wanting for a full discussion of the question; but if it would be agreeable to the President, he would put them in writing and send them to him.
Mr. Adams, now lingering to his end at Braintree, was a patriot, but greatly wanting in the attributes of greatness.
Party stringency had enforced it, but this was loosened, and all that was now wanting was a head to rally them into a new and formidable party.
Turning to me, he remarked: "General Scott is greatly wanting in ambition, he has no daring aspirations; he has thrown away the finest opportunity ever presented to man for aggrandizement.
His rejoinder was angry, and wanting in his usual biting sarcasm.
After supper tonight, Mr. Marbridge told me to take the car to the garage and not to expect a call for it until sometime tomorrow morning; but when I got there, he was already wanting me on the telephone.
I've been wanting to see you for a long time, Jack.
I can be as stupid as I like if I'm only thinking of him and only caring for him and only wanting it to come through me.
It would be useless to speak to his mother about it, for, though a just woman, she was predominantly his mother; she wanted Stella too much for Julian to admit a doubt of Stella's wanting him for herself.
If there be anything wanting to your comfort, name it, Leather- Stocking; if it be attainable it is yours.
The mountains are generally arable to the tops, although instances are not wanting where the sides are jutted with rocks that aid greatly in giving to the country that romantic and picturesque character which it so eminently possesses.
Remember, gentlemen, the words of the witness, ‘one neighbor wanting to enter the house of another.
Guy has been wanting us, for a long time past, to go and see the view, and saying there is a track quite smooth enough to drive Charlie to the top.
The opinion of the physician was the only thing wanting to bring home the certainty, and that fell on her like lead in the evening; with one comfort, however, that he thought it a less severe case than the former one.
And I thought his steady sense just what was wantingto bring out all her good qualities that are running to waste in that irregular home,' said Philip.
Sir Guy Morville might be one of the first men in England if he were not wanting to himself.
Guy was so much diverted at the idea of her wanting a lecture on wife-like deportment, that he had no time to be angry at the impertinence, and he made her laugh also by his view that was all force of habit.
It seemed as if Guy, wanting to bestow all he could upon his cousin in gratitude for his newly-accorded friendship, thought the sight of his little wife the very best thing he had to give.
The blockhead stands excused, for wanting sense; And wits turn blockheads in their own defence.
But my little lady still heard the weird child crying and mourning; and not all we could do or say could keep her from wanting to go to her, and let her in from the cruel wind and the snow.
Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
By the pulchritude of their souls make up what is wanting in the beauty of their bodies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wanting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
