Defects

Examples

• His Art and its Defects Lasted until Nineteenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The doctor may have been wrong when he discovered the child's defects of intellect, and predicted that she would 'grow out of them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I have said, that the defects of her character awoke and acquired vigour from her unnatural position. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She knows just enough about it to be conscious of her own sad defects. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Redwood lumber, being light in weight and singularly free from many of the defects so prevalent in other wood, is extremely easy to work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You are so proud of your defects. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• And a temper reckoned high in the sum total of her defects. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was able to tell the English brewers the defects in their output by a microscopic examination of their yeast. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There are defects discovered only when the ball is being turned or the segments cut. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yet the defects of the great political system created by the Americans of the revolutionary period did not appear at once. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Two men, Wyatt and Paul, of Birmingham, had earlier built a machine to spin stronger yarn than that usually used, but their machine had shown many defects, and they had abandoned its use. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I have a great many defects, I know, and it's very good of you, Edward, with your strength of mind, to endeavour to correct them for me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But I hope the Dutch, upon this notice, will be curious and able enough to supply my defects. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I answered, that his excellency's prudence, quality, and fortune, had exempted him from those defects, which folly and beggary had produced in others. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The Goebel case emphasizes two defects in the court procedure in patent cases. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We discover a man of great imaginative power but tortuous in the Arab fashion, and with most of the virtues and defects of the Bedouin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some defects and difficulties may be noted in the execution of the communistic plan. Plato. The Republic.
• We met: Watson's performance was read; there were some beauties in it, but many defects. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We have an unconscious revival of the defects of the Platonic scheme (ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The defects found in gas engines thus far were want of proper preliminary compression, then in complete expansion, and finally loss of heat through the walls. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and their love of their country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Much work shares in the defects of existing industrial society--defects next to fatal to right development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Yes, he said; but what are the characteristics of this form of government, and what are the defects of which we were speaking? Plato. The Republic.
• She was pretty tooat least I thought so THEN; and I had seen so little of other women, that I could make no comparisons, and see no defects. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• If I were asked, at this moment, to say plainly what defects I have discovered in Sir Percival, I could only point out two. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The defects of his character had triumphed over his upbringing long before he died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There are at least three serious defects of sensationalistic empiricism as an educational philosophy of knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• One might point to Stirner's absolute individualism or turn to Whitman's wholehearted acceptance of every man with his catalogue of defects and virtues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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