How To Use Wanting In A Sentence

He is a bit upset by that, that anybody thought he was wanting to leave just for one half-time where I was more direct with the players than I have been for a few months.
He shouldn't be courting her let alone possibly wanting to marry her.
My fingertips at this point were being sliced to the bone on the cheesewire strings but with usual English politeness i ploughed on now wanting fiona to hurray up. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
The reports of thefe pra&itioners are certainly favourable, in fome degree, to the idea of diluting the variolous contagion; however, many more fa&s are wanting deci - sively to edablifh the fuperiour advantage of this mode of inoculation.. The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
Whether wanting is measured in quality or quantity depends entirely on the individuals concerned.

They having observed where the Chest stood, and wanting a necessary mooveable to houshold, yet loath to lay out money for buying it: complotted together this very night, to steale it thence, and carry it home to their house, as accordingly they did; finding it somewhat heavy, and therefore imagining, that matter of woorth was contained therein. The Decameron
If she was stuck with wanting a man whose background and conditioning were alien to her, then that was her problem.
You wouldn't be wanting me to, say, authenticate it, would you? WHISTLER IN THE DARK
He kicked my ankles up the steps, my legs not wanting to operate. A DARKENING STAIN
If you want good rental fodder, you have to imagine people wanting to live there. Times, Sunday Times
He really felt, right now as he looked at her, that he'd outsailed her and needed another challenge, and anyway, lately he'd been wanting to do more cruising.
Wanting a decent job and a home is hardly asking for the moon.
Forgive me for needing you in my life;Forgive me for enjoying the beauty of your body and soul;Forgive me for wanting to be with you when I grow old. Sandra Robbins Heaton.
Many protesters will be ‘disguising’ themselves as innocent hillwalkers wanting to tackle the Ochils this weekend.
We don't have a charter and we don't have pressure from shareholders demanding profits and wanting to see readership figures.
Wanting to allow someone to discriminate is not racist any more than wanting to allow someone to speak racist things is racist. The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge
I remember not wanting to spend time there, due to the lack of a proper playground area to play in.
There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. Toba Beta
The old maxim of going out at the top and leaving them wanting more is still the best. The Sun
As the show drew to a close (after a disappointingly short 60 minutes) I was left wanting slightly more.
Forgive me for not wanting to take style tips from a man who looks like an Afghan hound with its head out of a car window. The Sun
Wanting to see the law respected is not the same as wanting to "coddle" our enemies. Borger: CIA flap a huge headache for Obama
So I suppose it's no surprise that a May 7 press release from the the World Congress of Families (WCF), an extremely conservative group that "seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society," accused CCF of wanting to '' de-institutionalize marriage "and of celebrating the fact" that an increasing number of women are choosing not to marry and have children. Stephanie Coontz: Unconventional Wisdom on Families
The best way I can describe it is wanting to work with nature, of acknowledging its awesome power.
She says that rather than counting calories, those wanting to lose weight should focus on eating healthy foods and cutting out processed products altogether. Times, Sunday Times
That was her other weakness, wanting to know if her own prognoses would come true. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
The development of the sporogonium proceeds as in the Bryales, but the dome-shaped archesporium extends over the summit of the columella and an air-space is wanting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
I've been in and out of jail and round in circles for years - desperately wanting to get off drugs but finding no way to get off the merry-go-round of smack, stealing and the nick.
There's absolutely nothing unmanly about wanting to make the world a more loving place.
Bad enough when a guy has no stamina ... let alone just wanting you to stand there while he "strums" on his pricktar. heheheh Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
I think he said that those opposing the creation of 'human admixed embryos' were, in effect wanting to kill future sufferers from illnesses such as Parkinson's Disease and Motor Neurone Disease. Victory for the scientists
With deep regret he saw the base in the distance, not wanting this moment to end.
These would be commercial travellers, wanting to write up their order books in peace.
Dems with a spine, gawd, that is the kind of change I've been wanting to believe in for a very long time. Feminist blogs in english » 2009 » August
People become charity trustees for myriad reasons, often wanting to give something back to society. Times, Sunday Times
On the second day she whispered when she spoke, not wanting to wake her.
Drivers wanting to cross those routes can expect longer waits at the lights as a result. Times, Sunday Times
He knows the work will avail him little, but he has emphatic reasons for wanting to do it. Times, Sunday Times
But Labour councillors rebutted the Conservative group's allegation by accusing them of not wanting to face the truth.
Here the two are wanting - the right and the consideration.
But on this particular day it seemed as if some of the ingredients were wanting, for the morning and afternoon passed, to the astonishment of all, without a single "phiz" as the girls were wont somewhat felicitously to call the frequent passages of arms in which the two girls considered it their peculiar privilege to indulge. Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission
I was torn all month long between not wanting to make the cake and wanting to add another notch to my Daring Baker "bedpost". Archive 2007-07-01
Thanks to budget flights, campers can now leave their car at home and let the plane take the strain, with the fly-drive option proving attractive for those wanting to travel as far as the Mediterranean.
No one can blame Scots for wanting to wrest some control over their lives back from London. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
Mills and wives are ever wanting.
I also think it's tied up with people looking after themselves, wanting to socialise without always having to include alcohol. Times, Sunday Times
Senator McCain trotted out a truly weird attack against Senator Obama last night, accusing him of wanting to invade Pakistan and thereby undermine our good buddy President Musharraf. McCain: tough on Obama, soft on terrorists
Her eyes searched for it, wanting to pick it up and reattach it. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
They were accused of materialism, wanting designer clothes instead of babies.
We hear about men finishing too soon, etc. and about men wanting to "prolong" it. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
So they hated their "target" audience from the get-go, and despite wanting to get away from "Science Fiction" they are going to continue doing the same thing: April Fool's Comes Early: SyFy anyone?
`If you ask me," ventured Sloan consideringly, `it was more of a case of him not wanting to marry the boss's daughter. A DEAD LIBERTY
What is available in the city centre is something that most supermarkets can't provide: the personal service that a market like the Oastler Centre can offer to those wanting to buy meat, fish and greengroceries.
And at that size, there are good reasons to think that the Public Option would become a dumping ground for what health care policy types call "creaming" -- health insurers wanting to maintain pools of the young and the healthy and dump responsibility for the aged and chronically ill on to public programs or on to nothing at all. Talking Points Memo
There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. Toba Beta
My dad's been wanting me to move out ever since the heat lamp for my pet mog almost burned the house down.
Caroline toughed it out at first, not wanting to miss practice with her Irish stepdancing team, the Aoibhneas an Rince Dancers. Doctors at Children's Hospital remove a cyst, and pain, from a young dancer
I've no element of self-loathing but I do realise that part of my success is just me showing off, and wanting to queen it over other people, to be frank with you.
The upkeep is more than I could ever imagine myself doing, or wanting to do. Does everyone have a Maid and Gardner?
Within you i lose myself,without you i find myself wanting to be lost again.
On the whole, though, this is either a specialist release for real dancehall heads or a bluffer's guide for those wanting to get into the scene.
But those wanting to keep on the right side of the law will have to steer clear of the grape.
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
So it's usually up to technology project leaders wanting a seat at the CEO's table to convince management committee members that they belong.
For example, until recently there was some provision for black men to be joined by their fiancées but much tighter controls on women wanting to bring their fiancés into the UK.
Sorry, Larry, it's very clever,' Carol said, not wanting to alienate her British back-up. THE LAST TEMPTATION
I'm almost an Alpha Male in that respect - not wanting to show my neediness or vulnerability - but I'm learning it's completely silly to be that way.
Within you I lose myself, without you I find myself wanting to be lost again.
Once a request has been made by the office of a federal lawmaker on behalf of a citizen wanting to visit the facility, it must be cleared by higher authorities.
Their mother put her finger to her mouth, not wanting to overexcite Kelley before she left. Beacon Street Girls: Lake Rescue
But that was one thing about the girls in this school, they drooled over all three… not wanting to miss the chance that one might look their way while they were drooling over the other.
One of the McCain campaign's chief assaults on Barack Obama is that McCain is insisting that the troops return only after "victory" in Iraq, while Obama refuses to use that word -- a position the McCain forces describe as tantamount to wanting to lose. Petraeus: I Don't Know That I Will Ever Use The Word "Victory" For Iraq
Stepping into a ring of light provided by a street light, he leaned back against the pole, wanting her to take her time.
These interlocutors, one assumes, were selected at random, for logical coherence in the set as a whole is wanting.
The rudeness of its personnel is legendary, yet it seems perversely proud to be the Fawlty Towers of English cricket, where everything would be fine if it wasn't for the deuced public wanting to watch cricket there.
Any licence holder wanting to open beyond those guideline hours will have to appear personally before the board to argue special circumstances.
He's never found wanting technically, and there are some jaw-dropping displays of speed and power
The Education Secretary accuses teachers of wanting to return to a dark age.
In my case, incidentally, the choice of writing in English was certainly motivated by wanting to earn from the writing. Interview: Lavie Tidhar Talks About 'World SF'
There's nothing immoral about wanting to earn more money.
There are hammocks slung outside some of the rooms in the outhouses and some share a kitchen - perfect for those wanting extra privacy.
Between them they portray a host of colourful characters in a small Irish village all wanting to be extras in a Hollywood film.
When the Bush campaign began branding Kerry as a flip-flopper the day he became the presumptive nominee, the Kerry campaign let it fester, not wanting to "dignify" the attack. Drew Westen: What Obama Needs to Do in Denver
For this second mode of reception we, as an audience, have been trained into wanting physical comfort [in the cinema, at home] with food, drink on hand.
Now particular ethnic groups are wanting to associate themselves with particular clubs.
Harry and Dolly were waiting impatiently for me, wanting to go out onto the catio to catch the last of the evening.
Would suit: Investors wanting to diversify their geographical spread of investments and who are prepared to take on a medium degree of risk. Times, Sunday Times
The demographic evidence on this matter has been examined above and found wanting as an explanation of population growth.
But the thought of anyone wanting my autograph is too overwhelming for me to really comprehend, so it pushes me to being more embarrassed than anything. Archive 2009-07-01
What more reasonable than that this should be done, while living witnesses may yet be called, to prove or disprove the several allegations and assertions; since, in a few years more, such witnesses may be as much wanting as to prevent a canonization, which is therefore prudently procrastinated for above an age? The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings
If we've ever had internal conflicts about cheating or wanting to cheat, had sexual longings for or experiences with someone of the same sex, imagined being with a prostitute or had pedophilic fantasies, watched porn or coveted a neighbor's husband or wife, we're going to be drawn -- in guilty fascination or fearful hostility -- to public disclosures of both forbidden sexual behavior and it's humiliating confession. Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Everything Said About Anthony Weiner Is Bull
I accept Mr. Wemyss' evidence that he was indeed concerned about the possible septic problems and that he had no other reason for wanting to abandon the deal.
The discontent voices really didn't seem that incensed, and the energy of the crowd as if it was felt wanting in resolve and determination.
It makes passengers more drowsy and therefore less prone to wanting another drink. The Sun
In four years, it had a hundred cavalrymen in uniform with another thirty-six being trained and a waiting list of more wanting to join. Wild Bill Donovan
I get tetchy, wanting to go out and get things done. Tew's Day!
I ordered the macintosh jacket I've been wanting for a while now.
I think a lot of the controversy comes from people just wanting to pick on megachurches.
What he wants is a switch to a market economy in a way which does not reduce people's standard of living. To many this sounds like wanting to have his cake and eat it.
Contrary to the impression given by some miserabilists today, there is nothing wrong with wanting to be famous.
`I do that myself," she added, not wanting to appear nosey. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
He remembered seeing planes flying across the sky to some preordained destination and the feeling of wanting to join them on their voyage.
Most are self-employed, but a few are dropped at street corners by employers, like farmers, wanting to bypass middlemen by selling their products directly to the customers.
Legion of Honor says: so whats wrong with wanting to be a carpet muncher? Think Progress » CPAC Conference Dissolves Into Right-Wing Civil War Over Gay Rights
I'm like junkie wanting a proper fix these days.
He stood around uneasily, obviously not wanting to go back to his game of solitaire while I was still in the room. THE EXECUTION
The emphasis on cheesiness in Coeur de Lion and on the 'bad bad' in Minnis seem to me to be wanting to mobilise our ideas of the 'poorly written', the 'formalistic', the 'faux-edgy' as these things themselves are sort of the contraband property of poetry and literature in this time and place. David's comment
Not wanting to put our lives at risk, we handed over the money in our wallets.
This government's policies, said the speaker, have been tried and found wanting.
I turned off the machine, then took the sensors off, not wanting to trip an alarm.
Is it not singular that these animals, not usually wanting in sagacity or courage, should when threatened by fire so quietly submit to their fate without making a single effort to escape? Life in the Rocky Mountains
I was talking to Huffpo's Paul Abrams about McCain's recent random, counterproductive "blurt" about not wanting to talk to friend Spain and not talking to our enemies. Karen Russell: It's McCain's Debate To Lose
It is about wanting to be the sort of person who has a cloakroom groaning with wellington boots and children's oilskins, even if you last went for a walk 10 years ago.
It was a bit unfair, I suggested, to be sniffy about people wanting to become pop stars when the alternative was, say, working in a factory.
Once in a while they would say something about the leader being senile and wanting revenge on me.
So, like an addict wanting to reproduce the effect of their first high, you are forced to go higher and steeper. Times, Sunday Times
Antiquity to angling is like social position to the gentleman:I would rather prove myself a gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors; and yet I grant, that where a noble and ancient descent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person. . . The ideal of the gentleman
Also, anyone wanting the essential information about a person's background will normally emerge unsatisfied.
Although I wasn't one for wanting to socialize during this hard time, I guessed that I'd better get to know the people I'd be rooming with over the next two weeks.
Workers wanting to claim compensation for injury to their feelings had their hopes dashed yesterday after a ruling by the highest court in the land.
Now drivers wanting to hire a car have to show their record electronically. Times, Sunday Times
When comments along the lines of Kelvin MacKenzie's are made at work, I find myself wanting to grab a broadsword and yell things about freedom. Skittledog: Oh, the rich. How they mock you.
There were so many children wanting a ride John didn't get a look-in.
For men say that the young of all creatures cannot be quiet in their bodies or in their voices; they are always wanting to move and cry out; some leaping and skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness and delight at something, others uttering all sorts of cries. Laws
The council are wanting the football club to take a more incremental approach to developing the stadium, including keeping the running track and building temporary stands.
Not wanting to get his valenki (boots essential for winter) wet, Ivan Denisovich takes them off, then sloshes the water onto the floor.
Some saw her apology as a cynical attempt to cling on to her job as MP with the party wanting to oust her. The Sun
Nor, I being thy husband, will there be wanting to thee chesnuts, nor the fruit of the arbute tree: [75] every tree shall be at thy service. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
Some say that wherever Selfridges is based it will attract shoppers and that it will act as a magnet to other top stores wanting to be in the vicinity.
A mild current of wanting to see Nancy underran all his days; he could control it, he decided, and to an extent he did. Undertow
We're seen as wanting to bring about social change. Times, Sunday Times
But Middlemas resolved not to be awanting to himself. The Surgeon's Daughter
I also think it's tied up with people looking after themselves, wanting to socialise without always having to include alcohol. Times, Sunday Times
These words coming from a senior leader that drove a bus into a ditch is now wanting to give commentary on driving a bus. Rumsfeld says Obama made 'bald misstatement'
It was only the other day I read in the report of the Consumers League in my own city that a benevolent institution, when found giving out clothing to be made in tenement houses that were not licensed, and taken to task for it, asked the agents of the League to show some way in which the law could be evaded; but it is just as well for that benevolent institution that name and address were wanting, or it might find its funds running short unaccountably. VII. Pietro and the Jew
Bashing Claire McCaskill for wanting to trim the giveaways is a little misleading. Matthew Yglesias » A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus
I started to run along the path, thinking that I'd not help matters if I sprained my ankle but not wanting to get stuck in the bush when darkness fell.
He can't help wanting more from his bedmate in ‘Cold Swedish Winter’, but she just ‘wants somebody to hold me through the night.’
There is also some sage advice for females wanting to break into what is still essentially a male domain.
Never wanting to be actively involved in politics, television happened by chance.
Falconry enthusiasts wanting to delve even deeper into the subject can sign up for a course of either one, two or five days.
I could feel several people wanting to shush her, and holding back with difficulty. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
I have been wanting to make this too, and just don't have time this week -- I actually almost bought some in the store but couldn't bring myself to do it -- those twinkie-like thingies just looked too gross. Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes With Vanilla Scented Biscuits
They set a tranquil holiday atmosphere which is just what is needed for strollers wanting a glimpse of the sea and to smell the salt.
Then he spoke in a rush, wanting it over with: `She was having treatment for her depression. STAGE FRIGHT
And all we're wanting to do is ensure that in a highly litigious city, in a highly litigious society, that we make sure as far as is possible, that lawyers bring cases that are reasonable and fair.
My own horse is too old to hunt any longer but whenever the local hunt is nearby, he pricks his ears, snorts and canters around the field, wanting to join in too!
You wouldn't be wanting me to, say, authenticate it, would you? WHISTLER IN THE DARK
An actual initiation was, of course, out of the question; on the other hand a _catabasis_, a descent into Hades, was part of the epic inheritance he derived from Homer, and this, like the funeral games in the fifth book, he might use with an earnestness of purpose wanting in Homer, to work in with the great theme of his poem, not merely as an artistic effort. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
The wintry haw is burning out of season, crab of the thorn, a small light for small people, wanting no more from them but that they keep the wick of self-respect from dying out, not having to blind them with illumination. Seamus Heaney - Poetry: The Haw Lantern
Anyone wanting to understand the deep historical connections between the numerous strands of modern esoterica would do well to read it.
_ -- In this kind of paraphasia in adults the cause is a lack of attention; therefore purely central concentration is wanting, or one fails to "collect himself"; there is distraction, hence the unintentional, frequently unconscious, confounding of words similar in sound or connected merely by remote, often dim, reminiscences. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
It can only be an insult if it's something utterly filthy which the guest is wanting to get rid of. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
What advice would she give anyone wanting to get into fashion? Times, Sunday Times
Last week, the Obama administration fired back with its strongest response to date, saying the industry's call for "clarity" is code for wanting EPA to just back off. The Charleston Gazette -
Captain Ross and his brother officer secured the swords of both men -- shutting the stable door, indeed, after the steed was stolen; in hot haste doctors were sent for; and 'mid the bustle and "strow" Eliott stumbled from the room and down the stair, "wanting his wig," as the landlady, whom he passed on the way, deponed. Stories of the Border Marches
It balances all of these elements perfectly, and leaves you wanting more.
This trope is almost banal: we hate what we idealize -- be it power, fame, wealth -- because what we idealize we know deep down is not worth wanting and so we feel embarrassed and even dirty for wanting it so. Rabbi Irwin Kula: The Roasting Of Weiner And The Public Good
She closed her eyes, wanting to lose herself in the taste of Marcus. REVELATIONS
You may love someone without necessarily wanting to marry them.
"Maybe," I conceded delicately, not wanting to be the one to crush her dreams.
She flung herself into her room and began to pack frantically, wanting to cry with rage and shame.
Yet is there no competent Judge that findeth them wanting in those Ancient ones, and that doth not much more admire that smoothly equall neatnesse, continued sweetnesse, and flourishing comelinesse of Catullus his Epigrams, than all the sharpe quips and witty girds wherewith Martiall doth whet and embellish the conclusions of his. Of Bookes.
Wanting to leave as soon as possible, she emptied her wine into the sink, and rinsed it with the water from the faucet.
Update: When one looks at a search result for the word bouncy, it is not difficult to argue that Amazon may have a point in wanting some sort of filter for adult content. Amazonfail: cyber-censorship, cyber-hype, or YHBT?
I grabbed his hand, wanting to listen to the song I had listened to back in junior high.
The United States owes its entire non-Native history to people wanting to erase their pasts and make fresh starts.
He skirted round a large stone on the path, not wanting to trip and lose his place.
If it costs less, the gamers and power users wanting unrestricted access would complain.
They're just wanting to exert their authority and treat Territorians with total contempt.
We were mobbed by people wanting to take photos. The Sun
I found myself apologizing a lot for being lame, for not having gone out much in the past six months, for wanting to leave early tonight, for not wanting a toke of a joint rolled with reportedly amazing weed.
The EU gives no indication of wanting a mutually beneficial deal. The Sun
Indeed, even people inclined to agree with him find his diatribe against originalism wanting.
I get emails from film people wanting me to spruik their product, but if they spell my name wrong I tend to send it straight into the trash bin. Glenn with a Double N
Dryden; but the fact is, _I did not know that Dryden's version existed_; for having undertaken to complete those of the Canterbury Tales which were wanting in Ogle's collection, and the tale in question _not being in that collection_, I proceeded to supply it, having never till very lately, strange as it may seem, _seen the volume of Dryden's Fables in which it may be found_!! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
Faced with these twin assaults on his ego it was hardly surprising that many players were found wanting.
It will leave you bereft and wanting more. Times, Sunday Times
Anyone wanting a sense of either the broad methodological coherence of this rapprochement or its sometimes bewildering thematic complexity will find resource here.
Rather than wanting larger breasts, this age group of women are sick of droopy breasts so come in for a breast lift (mastopexy). Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
within you i lose myself, without you i find myself wanting to be lost again.
(Soundbite of song) Unidentified Woman (Singer): (Singing) ... blamed him from wanting an allegro. The Hammersteins' Path From Brooms to Broadway
Mills and wives are ever wanting.
She said that wealthy landowners wanting to cash in on generous subsidies were helping to drive the boom. Times, Sunday Times
I lost count of how many times the Ali McCoist style waiters called us ‘guys’ and yet kept wanting to refold our napkins and pour our wine (even after we repeatedly told them not to).
Well, Arnie is still the gov, he hasn't quit the job that the people gave him to do and he is working hard to bring California into the 21st century, while Palin is wanting to keep us in the dark ages forever. Palin fires back at Schwarzenegger
There was the appetite for mortgages from investment banks wanting to package them up into complex products yielding fabulous profits. Times, Sunday Times
However, your stepson may not be dependent and without wanting to seem to belittle your worries I take drink-driving very seriously is your assessment accurate? Problem solved
This should be a great day for the city with peaceful fans wanting to watch their teams play.
But once outside its confines, he will be struggling - he will inevitably have to run the gauntlet of an adoring public wanting autographs by the hundred.
You said something about just wanting to talk to me, but we could've talked in other places.
Not wanting to play in Cleveland and give up his many business interests in the Boston area, Harrelson ‘retired’ for 48 hours, finagling a new two-year contract from the Indians during his brief layoff.
The reporters kind of grimaced, not wanting to be the focus of the President's wrath. Two Presidents and Two Lies
No one can blame Scots for wanting to wrest some control over their lives back from London. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
Anyone wanting to reproduce one of my poems will almost always get a speedy and favourable response to an inquiry.
They only showed that Mr. Kurtz lacked re - straint in the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him -- some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence. Heart of Darkness
That kind of data may seem obscure and unimportant, but it's a useful tool for researchers and insurance companies wanting to know long-term hurricane trends.
The latter possesses, although he frequently abuses it, the faculty of self-control and forethought, which is entirely wanting in the former. System der volkswirthschaft. English
Moreover, there are not wanting in these poems instances of the term signore, or lord, applied to the beloved lady; which is one of the many periphrastical expressions used by the Romance poets to indicate their mistress. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Kim thought for a moment and then remembered what Rosie had said about wanting her baby to grow up in a loving family and not on some rough London estate.

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