Deficiency

Examples

• If there is a deficiency, which there always is, it is provided for in the supplies of the ensuing year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But always there was a deficiency. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• These amounts have been somewhat less in years since then, but the appetite continues, and any deficiency in the supply is made up by enormous importation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Here Adeimantus interposes:--'No man can answer you, Socrates; but every man feels that this is owing to his own deficiency in argument. Plato. The Republic.
• Though _I_ have not seen much of the domestic lives of clergymen, it is seen by too many to leave any deficiency of information. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• My brothers were considerably younger than myself; but I had a friend in one of my schoolfellows, who compensated for this deficiency. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It was a lack of robust self, she had no natural sufficiency, there was a terrible void, a lack, a deficiency of being within her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He would only show the deficiency of the others. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Yes, Joseph,' says you, here Pumblechook shook his head and hand at me, 'he knows my total deficiency of common human gratitoode. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emergency so critical. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I am afraid, therefore, that your affairs may some time or other suffer by my deficiency. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• To obviate the deficiency, pack mules were hired, with Mexicans to pack and drive them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Because fifteen pounds is not enough for board and teaching, and the deficiency is supplied by subscription. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Thereupon he shook his head and tapped it, expressing his sense of deficiency in Joseph. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• 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.

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