Faults

Examples

• As in everything else, it has taken time to overcome the faults of the early trucks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I must reproach her with her faults, and then--she will throw the plates and dishes in my face! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I am acquainted with my faults. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Yes, I am guilty of those faults, and punished for them every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In other words, the very faults that we noted in the negative, from a picture point of view, automatically right themselves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Had this charming creature no faults? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• All these things do I now think over, adding, He had his faults, yet scarce ever was a finer nature; liberal, suave, impressible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They are very charming faults, at all events. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In short, every one of his faults we either endeavour to extenuate, or dignify it with the name of that virtue, which approaches it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He pretended that the greatest poets must, when they first began to write, have committed as many faults as he did. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Being human, of course he had his faults. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I only wish to correct little faults in your character. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He has no faults but what a serious attachment would remove. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Please to excuse the faults of this composition--my talking so much of myself, and being too familiar, I am afraid, with you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I scarcely know any oneMiss Lucy, who needs a friend more absolutely than you; your very faults imperatively require it. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They serve to put us upon correcting the faults we have, and avoiding those we are in danger of having. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I was full of faults; he took them and me all home. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• And now that her heart's mine you give me orders to fling it away, and punish her, kill her perhaps--for the faults of other people. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The mines of Cornwall had become unworkable, and as a great deal depended on the success of the engine in such work, he traveled to Cornwall to make sure that there should be no faults. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You have a good heart, Harriette, said he, and, whatever my faults may have been, I am now sufficiently punished. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But his really are faults that he might correct, and ought to correct, returned the sharp old lady, sharply shaking her head. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Oh, he has his faults, too, said Mr. Wilson. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Between them, and a working woman fu' of faults, there is a deep gulf set. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• With all his faults and follies, a sweet and pleasant gentleman! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Yet I had not forgotten his faults; indeed, I could not, for he brought them frequently before me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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