Drawbacks

Examples

• Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Drawbacks were given upon two different occasions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The defalcation of the revenue of customs occasioned by bounties and drawbacks, of which a great part are obtained fraudulently, is very great. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The drawbacks which were paid upon debentures and certificates, to ?2,156,800. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Well, well,' said Mr. Bumble, 'every trade has its drawbacks. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Her in-doors life had its drawbacks. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Of these encouragements, what are called drawbacks seem to be the most reasonable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• General Meade was an officer of great merit, with drawbacks to his usefulness that were beyond his control. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A Turkish lunch is good, no doubt, but it has its little drawbacks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Bounties are sometimes called premiums, as drawbacks are sometimes called bounties. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The term within which this, and all other drawbacks could be claimed, was afterwards (by 7 Geo. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He hoped the addition of the glycerine would increase the power and prevent some drawbacks which would otherwise stand in the way of boracic acid alone as a preservative of raw or cooked meat. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Certain drawbacks, possibly that of cost of installation and operation, has served as a hindrance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The problem to be solved was to market an agglomerated material so as to avoid the drawbacks of fine ore. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Yet they had their drawbacks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the drawbacks are becoming more and more evident as socialism approaches nearer to power and responsibility. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Bounties and drawbacks together amounted to ?2,324,600. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It's one of the drawbacks of our line of business. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The revenue of the customs, instead of suffering, profits from such drawbacks, by that part of the duty which is retained. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Herncastle blood has its drawbacks, I admit. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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