lack'd

She knew not what she lack'd, nor that she loath'd

Ideala Sarah Grand

Jove! was it possible they lack'd the knowledge he

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various

She search'd for what she lack'd, her face she struck;

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid

There lack'd not men of prowess, nor men of lordly race;

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

And lungs, that lack'd the bellows-mender's touch.

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

No man would want work if he lack'd not provision;

An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects Nathaniel Bloomfield

But to you I have been faithful whatsoever good I lack'd:

Barbara 1919

Ere he lack'd a soft pillow, the Barefooted Friar.

Ivanhoe 1892

Then lack'd I matter; that enfeebled mine - the expression "when your countenance filled up his line" referring obviously to the beauty of the young actor giving life and reality and added charm to Chapman's verse, the same idea being also put forward in the 79th Sonnet -

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories Oscar Wilde 1877

They have all lack'd the skill to console this regret

Lucile Owen Meredith 1861