It is not necessary to wait until a child is ten or twelve years old before teaching him not to interrupt a conversation, and to make his wants known quietly and without iteration, nor yet that your yea means yea, and your nay, nay.
She said that it keeps them always bright and free from rust, and she finds it much easier to pick out the needle she wants from the bottle than from a tray.
Nobody wants a neighbor running in at all hours, with or without an errand.
If she wants to be benefited physically, while putting her house in order, let her make it like outdoors, with the windows wide open so the fresh air can sweep through the rooms.
If the stomachwants tone, bitter tonics, like quassia, gentian, cardanum are good, even if drank as teas.
It can be folded up and put out of the way when not in use, and it telescopes into a small bundle when one wants to travel.
You see, Julia wants to live a life suited to her tastes and inclinations--a life such as she cannot have even here--a life consecrated to Beauty and Art.
She wants to know whether her mother is still here.
My little boy has read in a naughty book that people strangle their loves--and so hewants to do some strangling too!
The boss wants to see you in the office," he said, and turning on his heel, retraced his steps.
If Hurley wants thirty-five men in Camp Two an' fifty in Camp One why don't he send Camp One's crew up to Two an' leave me have Camp One?
He wantsour sympathy; He wants the gifts and offerings that are prompted by love.
As I wrote you, Cleveland wants Whitney, and I think it will be a good thing for your friends that he should go in with Manning.
Mr. Cleveland intends to go to New York on, or about, the 1st of February, to remain a week, for the purpose of giving everybody who wants to see him an opportunity to call on him.
Either before, or after, that time (probably after) he will go to Greystone, and he wants me to go there with him.
I think their opposition can be controlled; but a certain candidate, who has hitherto expressed himself willing to waive any claims he may have for the nomination in favor of our man, has now changed his mind and wants it.
Gorman, who really wants Jones instead of Lamar, says that there will be no trouble with Lamar; that it is his nature to go with his chief, and he will be loyal.
Mr. Bayard wants the Treasury portfolio, in which desire I have reason to believe he will fail.
Cleveland, on the other hand, wants him, and I think, in the end, will select him for War or P.
But what I wants to know is: Why, if you knew all about the fellow's little games, you sent us to spy on him?
Sophia," said her brother in a low tone, "go to the gate: that boy wants to speak to you.
Then they told me that when your honour wants fish they begged your honour to run up a white flag over the lantern--they thought that a beautiful idea--and they would bring some as soon as possible.
Sophia, this is a terrible thing your brother wants me to believe--may I ask what your opinion is?
When a man comes to you himself and wants it done, you fly into a passion and spurn his money; but let an enemy of his come and pay you, and you are only too willing.
You've been giving in, just as you've always given in more than any of us, letting your mother get you the clothes she wants you to have rather than what you want, and pack your trunk when we know how you want to pack it yourself.
It was while you were away we started it, and she wants you and Maud and Juliette and Adele to come for a cup to-morrow.
That Maud and Selina and Adele and I are the only girls he knows whose hand he can't hold when he wants to.
Mamma says bangs are copied from a doubtful person, an actress, and she's not sure she wants to see me have them.
She has to take an examination andwants me to coach her for it.
And I told you how she said she does not approve of the new methods called kindergarten that are beginning to be used in the schools, and wants William Williams Jr.
She's too charming a person to grow restless and faddish, imagining she wants occupation and not a husband!
That earnestness of his keeps its eye on exactly what it wants and doesn't waste itself elsewhere.
He was saying in his mind: "What if she meant me to go and fetch this water while she looks for what she wants to find?
Next time he wants me to pull him out of a death trap, he can whistle for his pains!
The labors of the medical officer who undertakes single-handed to minister to the wants of a regiment of recruits can only be known to those who have tried it.
Yet to relieve the wants of all these thousands of suffering men not more than forty surgeons had been sent from the field.
No sooner were the men removed from the ambulances than surgeons and nurses addressed themselves with all the strength that remained to them to relieve the immediate wants of the sufferers.
Contenting himself with working day and night without respite, and often without food, until, by unremitting but quiet toil, the wants of all are relieved.
Esther Haythorne wants me to teach for her through July and August.
No; it's only that Gilbert wants more than friendship and I can't give him more.
But she's powerful fond of company and always wants to see my boarders.
And Susy's father wants to know why Susy can't write a letter without misspelling half the words, and Dick's aunt wantsme to change his seat, because that bad Brown boy he is sitting with is teaching him to say naughty words.
Miss Lavendar wantsme to go through to Echo Lodge some day while I'm home and light a fire to air it, and see that the cushions aren't getting moldy.
She sat at the head of the table, serene, cheerful, and watchful, anticipating the wants of each and every one who ate at the board.
You wouldn't believe it skacely, but this yer great big chunk of a gal wants her ole pappy to pick her up an' tote her thes like he useter when she was er little bit of a scrap.
I mean that you have decided to tell the general what he wants to know.
Surely he wants me to tell him the truth," said Harry, affecting surprise.
We might agree to tell him what he wants to know about how we got to the island when we can be assured that it will injure no one.
If he wants further information and doesn't know how to ask for it, he cannot expect the prisoner to supply the questions.
What he wants is reality, simplicity, godly sincerity; and he knows that, scarce as these virtues are in the community at large, they are scarcest of all among these dignitaries.
Turning now to the Gospels, we find the wants of each of these three types provided for in a wondrous way.
But, besides this, a manifold Gospel was needed, in order to meet the wants of man in the many-sidedness of his development.
I do not know what Adone does; his mind is hid from me, but if, as you say, he wants a rising of our people, it is natural and just.
But Adone had no such dreams; he was as satisfied with his lot as any young steer which wants nothing more than the fair, fresh fields of its birth.
Adone Alba wants nothing but what he has; he only asks to be left alone.
At that safe distance one wants to indicate to the other that he wishes to be friendly.
They exhibit signs to one another with obvious intention, and they also have often invented them as a means of obtaining their wants from man.
Now will somebody tell me what that old villain wants of a pilot?
If a man wants to go from here to our country, he must go to that Consulate and get a pass before any blockade-runner will take him.
About all the captain says in his letter is that he wants me to report immediately.
I am not a policy man, but in times like these one can't always do as he wants to.
All right as far as I could see; and Allison wants to join your crew.
You will be safe there; and, besides, your mistress wants to see you.
Do you still think he wantsto test your loyalty to the South?
The crew is full; you know nothing about a vessel; he wants nothing but sailor-men aboard of him, and if you want to do something for the South, the best thing you can do is to go into the army.
Into the house they went, and Dic made his wants known to the head of the family.
All he wants is a chance to prove his military prowess.
The horse that won the Derby, he has been told, is for sale, and he wants you to see it with him.
Neither men nor women can help their peculiar disposition, but in my opinion a man never more esteems a woman than when he sees she wantsto win his love.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
