awanting

But Middlemas resolved not to be awanting to himself.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

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

Redgauntlet 2008

“And mine also was not awanting,” said Oliver Proudfute,

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

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

The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

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.

The Englishwoman in America 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.

Ivanhoe 2004

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.

A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall

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.

A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall

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?

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

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

A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall