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• As for our nighbour Kirk in England, it is an evill said masse in English, wanting nothing but the liftings. —  Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
• It was to her a play with its heart a-wanting, and yet the whirl and movement were welcome for a moment as substitutes for that heart The ball remained, and Bourhope was resolute it should settle the question for him. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
• At the first hiatus, the word wanting is, without doubt, saw_; and at the second, the letters, of can MONOPOLIES In the High Street of Edinburgh, not many doors further up than the premises of the publishers of this Journal, there is a curious memorial of an old and now generally abolished economic grievance. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852
• If there is anything wanting which is within my power to give, do not fail to let me know it. —  Abraham Lincoln
• These last being in great want of masts, yards, rigging, and all kinds of naval stores, and having no supply at Buenos Ayres or any of the neighbouring settlements, Pizarro dispatched an advice-boat with a letter of credit to Rio de Janeiro, to purchase what was wanting from the Portuguese. —  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

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