After reading them with feverish eagerness for nearly four years, I decided that they somehow lack definiteness.

But with all its effusiveness of expression, it lacked definiteness in the enunciation of principles.

The letter was written on the 21st of August, and lacked definiteness, which gave rise to doubts in reference to the 'insurrection.'

The marks were rather small, and were almost entirely confined to one end of the plate, but as I have said, lacked definiteness.