1 I am not going out under human guidance, subject to the defective laws and erring control of my feeble fellow-worms: my king, my lawgiver, my captain, is the All-perfect.
2 In point of composition," said Mary, "the letter does not seem defective.
3 The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.
4 I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect.
5 I fancy, Lizzy, that obstinacy is the real defect of his character, after all.
6 And these people thought it a prodigious defect of policy among us, when I told them that our laws were enforced only by penalties, without any mention of reward.
7 Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII. 8 For nothing is more true than that where a country, having men, lacks soldiers, it results from some fault in its ruler, and not from any defect in the situation or climate.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI. 9 In this way the people were contented, and had no occasion from any defect in the solemnities to desire the return of their kings.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV. 10 For often, from defect of judgment, men take upon them to defend others, when they have neither skill nor ability to defend themselves.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI. 11 Their great defect as laborers lies in their lack of incentive beyond the mere pleasure of physical exertion.
12 But that is not all, that is not his worst defect; his worst defect is his perpetual moral obliquity, perpetual--from the days of the Flood to the Schleswig-Holstein period.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 1: VIII 13 If his odor is really a congenital defect, as he says, then there are ways of remedying it.
14 The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions.
15 Certainly there was no physical defect.