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Sentences ending with defects

Do you call these minor defects? [5]
Cooper's art has some defects. [5]
I have been putting in a deal of hard work on that play in New York, but it is full of incurable defects. [5]
What she usually prized and valued in Phaon she now did not see at all, but distinguished every one of his defects. [10]
Howells was a peerless critic, but the revolutionary subject-matter of the book so delighted him that he was perhaps somewhat blinded to its literary defects. [5]
He wrote to Brevoort: "Kean is a strange compound of merits and defects. [4]
Later on, I began to take a cursory interest in him, to watch for signs in him of certain characteristics of my own youth which, in the philosophy of my manhood, I had come to regard as defects. [9]
To our day an American ambassador's official costume remains under the reproach of these defects. [5]

Sentences containing defects two or more times

Age has its powers, but it has its defects, and he had no hope that his own defects would be wiped out by luck at the polls. [11]

More example sentences with the word defects in them

Althea's very defects would perfect the figure of the restless, wretched weaver whom Athene transformed into the spider. [10]
He liked my work, saw its defects, and was always frank about them, and I designed a good many gardens in connection with his houses. [9]
And the cordiality with which he gave help whenever it was asked, and his eagerness to acknowledge merit in others, secured him the affection of all the literary class, which is popularly supposed to have a rare appreciation of the defects of fellow craftsmen. [4]
The best and wisest has his defects, and sometimes they would seem to be very grave ones if brought up against him in the form of accusation. [6]
He also looks upon life as a picture, but to catch its beauties, its lights,--not its defects and shadows. [4]
The writers of universal histories and of the history of culture are like people who, recognizing the defects of paper money, decide to substitute for it money made of metal that has not the specific gravity of gold. [2]
Then, there are the circumstances which prevented my concealing the defects that wounded the eyes of this most spoiled of all spoiled mortals. [10]
And more than that: there are certain defects, as in the present case, which an inspection would not reveal. [9]
In the United States, under totally different conditions, and under an economic theory that, whatever its defects on paper, has nevertheless insisted more upon the worth of the individual man, we have had, all the same, a distinctly material development. [4]
It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects that unfit a man for military service, and all the intellectual ones that limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. [6]
The young lady-teacher read them with a certain indifference of manner, as one reads proofs--noting defects of detail, but not commonly arrested by the matters treated of. [6]
As soon as Prince Andrew began to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, Prince Dolgorukov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not at the map, but at Prince Andrew's face. [2]
He would laugh over Swift's gall and wormwood, and would never be brought by my mother to acknowledge the defects in the Dean's character. [9]
There are some other defects, as you will notice, but I think I have named the main ones. [5]
One of the most trying defects which I find in these Stratfordolaters, these Shakesperiods, these thugs, these bangalores, these troglodytes, these herumfrodites, these blatherskites, these buccaneers, these bandoleers, is their spirit of irreverence. [5]
Who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually over-hauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket? [7]
They were good men, every one, but they had two defects which I couldn't cure, and so had to wink at: they wouldn't lay aside their armor, and they would "knock down" fare --I mean rob the company. [5]
It seems to me that those defects were never thrown out in stronger lines. [14]
But if you like the head, what seem to you the greatest defects in the figure? [10]
It is a lazy way of disposing of a young poet to bluntly declare, without any sort of discrimination of his defects or his excellences, that he equals Tennyson, and that Scott never wrote anything finer. [4]
Did you mean it to embody, along with force, any of the special defects of the artistic character? [14]
I have heard it said he had many defects of delivery. [9]
You made defects in the circumstantial evidence, the imminent problems of our own salvation. [11]
Some have called him a poet and nothing but a poet, and some have made so much of the palpable defects of his verse that they have forgotten to recognize its true claims. [6]
In fact, he had so few defects and faults that perhaps it might have been better for his advancement in life and his estimation in the circle of society to which he belonged if more of them had clung to him. [10]
The time was drawing near when the Dominion Government must go to the polls, and in the most secluded cottage on the St. Lawrence, the virtues and defects of the administration were vital questions. [11]
They are common defects of my own, and one mustn't criticise other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself. [5]
To her other defects (as most people thought them, but which to Pierre were qualities) of untidiness and neglect of herself, she now added stinginess. [2]
Jasmine had the deep defects of her qualities. [11]
Money and fine clothes could not mend these defects or cover them up; they only made them more glaring and the more pathetic. [5]
Still, admire Balzac as we may, I think we do not like him; we rather feel towards him as towards an ungenial acquaintance who is for ever holding up in strong light our defects, and who rarely draws forth our better qualities. [14]
He would create a genuine woman, who would not lack defects, yet who, though she inspired neither gratification nor rapture, would touch, perhaps even thrill, the heart by absolute truth. [10]

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