Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animal altogether
deficient in spirit, he assumed such boldness as to put a bridle in his mouth, and to let a child drive him.
They were in fact very fine ladies; not
deficient in good humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of making themselves agreeable when they chose it, but proud and conceited.
What indeed are all the repealing, explaining, and amending laws, which fill and disgrace our voluminous codes, but so many monuments of
deficient wisdom; so many impeachments exhibited by each succeeding against each preceding session; so many admonitions to the people, of the value of those aids which may be expected from a well-constituted senate?
He does not draw himself, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people, and I assure you he is by no means
deficient in natural taste, though he has not had opportunities of improving it.
He is less polished, less insinuating than Mainwaring, and is comparatively
deficient in the power of saying those delightful things which put one in good humour with oneself and all the world.
If what is now said does not make this clear, we will explain it still further: if there should be any one, a very excellent player on the flute, but very
deficient in family and beauty, though each of them are more valuable endowments than a skill in music, and excel this art in a higher degree than that player excels others, yet the best flutes ought to be given to him; for the superiority [1283a] in beauty and fortune should have a reference to the business in hand; but these have none.
Beetles, wingless, in Madeira; with
deficient tarsi
Hunt in the expedition, and excelled on those points in which the other was
deficient; for he had been ten years in the interior, in the service of the Northwest Company, and valued himself on his knowledge of "woodcraft," and the strategy of Indian trade and Indian warfare.
They were not "her sort," they were often suspicious and stupid, and
deficient where she excelled; but collision with them stimulated her, and she felt an interest that verged into liking, even for Charles.
Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past(supernaturally
deficient in originality) rapped out theirs.
The peasants are very exact in supplying their quota, being obliged to pay double the value in case of failure; and very often when they have produced their full share, they are told that they have been
deficient, and condemned to buy their peace with a large fine.
Again, if you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point of diction and thought, you will not produce thc essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however
deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.