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Sentences ending with merits

The addresses, as usual, call attention to his own merits. [4]
Among them was the great writer of fiction for whom Miss Bronte felt so strong an admiration; he immediately appreciated, and, in a characteristic note to the publishers, acknowledged its extraordinary merits. [14]
The cost, in the eyes of the spectators, was a great part of its merits. [4]
According to the statement of the advocates and contemporaries of this remedy, none ever failed of receiving benefit unless their little faith and credulity starved their merits. [6]
He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits. [5]
The publisher had recognized the value of the book, and it was accepted on its merits. [4]
This comes of overdoing the suppression of the Thugs; they had their merits. [5]
There was one other in that picture, standing near my mother, and looking at me, who often used to speak of our great ancestor--my grandfather, John Mitchell, the Gentleman of Balmore, as he was called, out of regard for his ancestry and his rare merits. [11]
Keep yourself out of sight till you make a strike on your own merits there is no other way to get a fair verdict upon your merits. [5]
I waive all objections that it was not filed till after default was taken, and demur to it upon the merits. [7]

Short sentences using merits

Personal merits? [5]

More example sentences with the word merits in them

The faults of youth are never shed, no, nor the merits, and creeping time convinces ever the more of our impotence, and of the irresistibility of our bias. [6]
Some day there will be a chairman who will forget some of these merits of mine, and then he will make a speech. [5]
At any rate, whatever the merits of their case, no one in England accused the Johannesburgers of foolhardy courage or impassioned daring. [11]
I am afraid we do not always do justice to our country brethren, whose merits are less conspicuously exhibited than those of the great city physicians and surgeons, such especially as have charge of large hospitals. [3]
But Little Hammer was oblivious to any depreciation of his merits, and would not be suppressed. [11]
Beside the hall was a corner lot, heaped high with hills of ashes and rubbish like the vomitings of some filthy volcano; the unsightliness of which was half concealed by huge signs announcing the merits of chewing gums, tobaccos, and cereals. [9]
And you, Gibbus--this very day there has been an Arab again to see Joanna; and if they were to suspect that you had been with your master--for you look strangely.--No, man; your devotion merits a better reward. [10]
A factor of twenty years before, in recognition of the chief's merits and in reward of his services, had presented him with a pair of epaulettes, left in the Fort by some officer in Her Majesty's service. [11]
When it comes to that, the best man, not exactly in the moral sense, but rather in the material, and more especially the muscular point of view, is very apt to have the best of it, irrespectively of the merits of the case. [6]
I wish further to say that I do not propose to question the patriotism or to assail the motives of any man or class of men, but rather to confine myself strictly to the naked merits of the question. [7]
He was speaking to me on the merits of roast beef--" "It's a fine day," said Mr. Hopper. [9]
The merits of the metal machine would be far above those of the stone one? [5]
How many of the living occupants of thrones, dukedoms, earldoms, and such high places are in position on their own merits, or would be put there by common consent? [4]
He chatted with the gardener, and discussed the merits of the horses with the groom, apparently at peace with the world. [11]
From this to the end of the resolution, there is nothing that merits attention--I therefore drop the particular examination of it. [7]
He needed advice, the advice of those who had more knowledge than he had of the merits of relief cases. [4]
But we will talk over the merits of the case. [7]
Our villages are superior to German villages in more merits, excellences, conveniences, and privileges than I can enumerate, but the hotels do not belong in the list. [5]
Though some skeptics smiled when told of Berg's merits, it could not be denied that he was a painstaking and brave officer, on excellent terms with his superiors, and a moral young man with a brilliant career before him and an assured position in society. [2]
And that she should seem to consider me a spectacle, and totally overlook her own merits in that respect, was another puzzling thing, and a display of magnanimity, too, that was surprising in one so young. [5]
He does really seem to have already forgotten Cornelia's merits in one brief month, for he eulogizes Harriet in a way which rules all competition out: "Thou only virtuous, gentle, kind, Amid a world of hate. [5]
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]
I trust, the press and the public show themselves disposed to give the book the reception it merits, and that is a very cordial one, far beyond anything due to a Bulwer or D'Israeli production. [14]
Howells has a peculiar gift for seeing the merits of people, and he has always exhibited them in my favor. [5]
The then editor of 'Macmillan's Magazine', Mr. Mowbray Morris, was not, I think, quite so sure of the merits of the Pierre stories. [11]
He never tired of it, and in his more sanguine moods he looked forward to the time when the world would acknowledge its merits, and his genius would find full recognition. [6]
Judge Douglas does not discuss the merits of the decision, and in that respect I shall follow his example, believing I could no more improve on McLean and Curtis than he could on Taney. [7]
It is by no means one of his smallest merits, that he introduced one system of coinage through his entire empire, and consequently through half the then known world. [10]
That is the land for such as I, where a man may stand upon his own merits. [9]
Sir Philip Sidney is better remembered by the draught of water he gave the dying soldier than by all the waters he ever drew from the fountain of the Muses, considerable as are the merits of his prose and verse. [6]
We do not intend to give a map of the state, or discuss the merits or demerits of the consolidation of the Central and the Northwestern and the Truro railroads. [9]
And so (as I trouble not myself about the reviewer's style of composition) I leave his criticisms regarding the merits of the work on one side. [14]
This solicitude was, however, wholly in his manner--and it is the traditional-manner that has nearly passed away--for underneath all this humility it was plain to be seen that the South had conferred a great favor, sir, upon these persons by a recognition of their merits. [4]
He returned to his hotel prepared for any desperate measure, and convinced now that the Grosvenor Green apartment was not merely the only thing left for him, but was, on its own merits, the best thing in New York. [8]
I spoke to him calmly, I think, begging him place his merits where they would have better entertainment; but I said hard, cold things at last, when other means availed not; which presently made him turn upon me in another fashion. [11]
Still, Garnham's translation has high merits, and I am not dreaming of leaving it out of my book. [5]
They say it has all the merits of the original and keeps still, besides. [5]
Anna Mikhaylovna also had of late visited them less frequently, seemed to hold herself with particular dignity, and always spoke rapturously and gratefully of the merits of her son and the brilliant career on which he had entered. [2]
It must, therefore, go to the public on the basis of its merits alone, and as a picture of the peace-life of the great North West. [11]
If in the future we are rich enough to raise churches to the Almighty, to the Virgin Mary and the great Saints, in any way worthy of their sublime merits, we shall owe our skill to the famous architects of heathen Hellas. [10]
I have been educated to enmity toward every thing that is Catholic, and sometimes, in consequence of this, I find it much easier to discover Catholic faults than Catholic merits. [5]
If he will do the same, we will rise hand in hand to the highest place, of that he may be sure--and well he merits it. [10]
Besides, I don't deserve to go to London; nobody merits a change or a treat less. [14]
The streets are deserted, except by the water-carrier, who refreshes the ear by proclaiming the merits of his sparkling beverage, 'colder than the mountain snow (mas fria que la nieve). [4]
He possessed a comprehensive knowledge of the religions of all nations, and described each with equal love and an endeavour to show us all their merits. [10]
The Court had come to a point where decision upon the exact legal merits of the case was difficult. [11]
He was again Captain Paul, the man, who fought his way on his own merits. [9]
He wrote to Brevoort: "Kean is a strange compound of merits and defects. [4]
It can but blazon in this verse of mine What love does for me; what from Love it gains; What is its quickening; but it refrains From divination where thy merits shine. [11]
The bill should be judged on its merits, and proper measures for the safeguarding of public interests should be put into it. [9]
Jesse had been away so much in different parts of the country before then that their individual merits never had had a real chance to make permanent impression. [11]
What his merits are as an artist I am not capable of judging, but I am quite certain that he is a just and able man. [10]
They have merits and virtues, but they have some other qualities, and some ways that are hard to get along with. [5]
Hitherto she had always been inclined to make excuses for his weaknesses and little faults, nay, the zeal with which she had observed and pointed out his merits and performances before strangers as well as before their own family, had often seemed to him embarrassing. [10]
I know all about it, for she often consults me as to the merits of a particular contribution. [6]
His merits and abilities are described at great length on his tombstone in the Concord burial-ground. [6]
And there comes a time when a man wishes he had never written a book, and a longing to be sought after for his own sake and to be judged on his own merits. [9]
Every one has a right to form his own conclusion respecting the merits and demerits of a book. [14]
I am not a musical critic, and did not come here to write essays about the operas and deliver judgment upon their merits. [5]

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