Deficiencies

Examples

• After all, Watson, said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• There was no other merit in this, than my having sense enough to feel my deficiencies. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Education will correct deficiencies and supply the power of self-government. Plato. The Republic.
• And as the girl withdrew she added, smiling, Fortunately, I have it in my power to supply deficiencies for this once. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• To have had him join their family dinner-party, and see all their deficiencies, would have been dreadful! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• And to bear with my infirmities, Jane: to overlook my deficiencies. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• On any other, if you like, for I don't set up to be a penetrating character, and am well aware of my own deficiencies. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Because I am well aware of my deficiencies. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Sensible of my deficiencies, I have surrounded myself with moral influences expressly meant to promote the formation of the domestic virtues. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His very deficiencies bring out starkly certain qualities that lurk suppressed and hidden in us all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was a clerk in the office of the Adjutant-General who supplied my deficiencies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He had set out on his work with all his old animation, and felt himself strong enough to bear all the deficiencies of his married life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the development of the reaper one of the first deficiencies to be supplied was automatic mechanism for taking the grain from the platform. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I notice that all travelers supply deficiencies in their collections in the same way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She was not, however, without purveyors of information ready to supplement her deficiencies. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And would not the deficiencies of one year be made up for by the surplus of another? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The deficiencies charged upon it amounted to ?2,055,999: 7: 11?. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He wished to take stock of what had already been accomplished, to supply deficiencies, and to enlarge the bounds of human empire. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The deficiencies charged upon this prolonged term amounted to ?5,160,459: 14: 9?. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Still there were some wiser parents; and some young men, who had sense enough to perceive their own deficiencies, and strive to remedy them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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