want must be one's master
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "JUDY, (within) Well! what do you want, Mr. Punch? PUNCH. Come up stairs: I want you. JUDY. Then want must be your master. I'm busy."
- "The market was brighter than you would think anything could be. There were stalls for everything you could possibly want—and for a great many things that if you wanted here and now, want would be your master."
- ""I want the ring," said Mabel, rather mulishly. "Want"—the words came out of the still evening air—"want must be your master. You can't have the ring. I can't get it off!""
- "He wants my money and my life, though want must be his master, for some brutish empire of his. Money I haven’t."
- "“Poor fellow!” said Graham. “Want must be his master, as nurses said in the good old days before Montessori was heard of. […]”"