Awanting

“And mine also was not awanting,” said Oliver Proudfute, ❋ Unknown (2008)

But Middlemas resolved not to be awanting to himself. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She set off to Edinburgh to get what was awanting for his outfit, and shortly afterwards received melancholy news from the Highlands. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet the usual signs of approach to an enormous city were awanting — dwarfed trees, market-gardens, cockney arbours, in which citizens smoke their pipes in the evening, and imagine themselves in Arcadia, rows of small houses, and a murky canopy of smoke. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A second knock brought no reply from within the house; but caused a woman over the way to look out and inquire who that was, awanting Mrs ❋ Unknown (2007)

Jesters and jugglers were not awanting, nor was the occasion of the assembly supposed to render the exercise of their profession indecorous or improper. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But was there not something awanting to complete the unity of the scene? ❋ Various (N/A)

The cause and the effect invariably follow each other both in old and young; for whenever a new idea is perceived and reiterated by the pupil, -- if it should be but once, -- the knowledge of the child is to that extent increased; but whenever this act of the mind is awanting, there can be no additional information received; -- the increase of knowledge is found to be impossible. ❋ James Gall (N/A)

There was nothing awanting in pomp or in splendour at the royal wedding. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

And yet -- and yet -- in that sorrow-free existence that he promised, might there not still be something awanting to one who had once known tears? ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

Doors and windows were still awanting, but she asked for the services of a carpenter from Calabar to do this bit of work; and meanwhile the humble building, the first ever erected for the worship of God in Okoyong, was formally opened. ❋ W. P. Livingstone (N/A)

_ -- On the alarm of fire being given, an engine must be immediately despatched from the main office to whatever district the fire may be in; and the captain in whose district the fire happens shall bring his engine to the spot as quickly as possible, taking care that none of the apparatus is awanting. ❋ James Braidwood (N/A)

The photographic apparatus is awanting and the photograph cannot therefore be there. ❋ Alexander Philip (N/A)

In proof of this important fact we have seen, that when this object is successfully gained, all the previous steps have been homologated and confirmed; whereas, whenever this crowning operation is awanting, all the preceding labour of the pupil becomes useless and vain, his knowledge gradually melts from the memory, and is ultimately lost. ❋ James Gall (N/A)

Nor were the joys of books awanting to the happy small boy who describes himself as in early days being carried off by his nurse ❋ Margaret Moyes Black (N/A)

Hundreds would not have been dying of famine in Skibbereen; seed-corn would not have been awanting in Skye and Mull; cultivation would not have been abandoned in Tipperary; but the cessation of agricultural produce over the whole empire would have been quite as great. ❋ Various (N/A)

Recruits speedily were not awanting; the only difficulty was to select from the crowds which presented themselves for enrolment. ❋ Various (N/A)

We have done our best to give you the benefit of our experience in the peaceful pursuit of loch-fishing; and if we have said too much or too little, pray excuse us, and in your goodness of heart reprove us for our verbosity, and tell us what is awanting. ❋ William Senior (N/A)

If this object can be successfully attained, then the proper means for the intellectual improvement of the child are secured; but as long as it is awanting, his mental cultivation is either left to chance, or to the capricious decision of his own will; -- for experience shews, that although a child may be compelled to read, or to repeat the ❋ James Gall (N/A)

Their armour is of that kind more especially in vogue at Astley's, in the composition of which tinfoil is a principal ingredient, and pasteboard by no means awanting. ❋ Various (N/A)