1 On Edward's side, more particularly, there was a deficiency of all that a lover ought to look and say on such an occasion.
2 "Yes, Joseph, says you," here Pumblechook shook his head and hand at me, "'he knows my total deficiency of common human gratitoode."
3 He would only show the deficiency of the others.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP 4 This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emergency so critical.
5 There is a vast deal of difference in memories, as well as in everything else, and therefore you must make allowance for your cousin, and pity her deficiency.
6 Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible.
7 From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion.
8 Cathy begged that he might be liberated then, as Isabella Linton had no partner: her entreaties were vain, and I was appointed to supply the deficiency.
9 Lily could not recall the time when there had been money enough, and in some vague way her father seemed always to blame for the deficiency.
10 Colonel Lloyd's slaves were in the habit of spending a part of their nights and Sundays in fishing for oysters, and in this way made up the deficiency of their scanty allowance.
11 Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say.
12 , indicating the man's deficiency of dress with a gesture of his hand.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law... 13 His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though, if he were cut, he would bleed white.
14 You are extremely deficient in your facts.
15 I regard Louisa Musgrove as a very amiable, sweet-tempered girl, and not deficient in understanding, but Benwick is something more.