Significados de supply a want en inglés

These supply a want of each of these professions seldom met by the public collections, and are proportionately valuable.

Books are for the most part wilfully and hastily written, as parts of a system, to supply a want real or imagined.

She might speak of her own poverty, but not even Eleanor Maclure herself could be allowed to pity, or offer to supply a want.

They would supply a want which is deplored by all educational reformers, and make their influence felt far outside the mere circle of the schoolroom.

The leading merit of this history is that it supplies a want, and supplies it effectually.

His eyebrows, too, were more darkly traced, supplying a want only too obvious in her countenance.

Other pretty gifts had found a place, and supplied a want, in their common life; but this-this-oh

'I'm going, Samuel,' she said, 'to supply a want.'

But although perhaps inferior, in all artistic point of view, to his predecessors, the genius of Euripides supplied a want that they did not meet.