"You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious
shortcoming. Anne sighed.
But, as Uncle Alec's experiment was intended to amuse the young folks, rather than suggest educational improvements for the consideration of the elders, she trusts that these
shortcomings will be overlooked by the friends of the Eight Cousins, and she will try to make amends in a second volume, which shall attempt to show The Rose in Bloom.
As a citizen, I may confess--I confess it freely--I have been guilty of certain
shortcomings; yet those
shortcomings have been combined with certain virtues.
AS a preface is the only place where an author can with propriety explain a purpose or apologize for
shortcomings, I venture to avail myself of the privilege to make a statement for the benefit of my readers.
In very many published narratives no little degree of attention is bestowed upon dates; but as the author lost all knowledge of the days of the week, during the occurrence of the scenes herein related, he hopes that the reader will charitably pass over his
shortcomings in this particular.
His mother used to get up in prayer-meeting and tell all her children's
shortcomings and ask prayers for them.
Now that this book is printed, and about to be given to the world, a sense of its
shortcomings both in style and contents, weighs very heavily upon me.
Perhaps it's our strong point, really, the faculty of seeing our own
shortcomings; but we overdo it, we comfort ourselves with irony which we always have on the tip of our tongues.
She could see their
shortcomings and defects, which were glaring in her eyes.
I accordingly engaged a room in the house of a lady of pure French extraction and education, who supplements the
shortcomings of an income insufficient to the ever-growing demands of the Parisian system of sense-gratification, by providing food and lodging for a limited number of distinguished strangers.
As the great day approached, all the tyranny that was in him came to the surface; he seemed to take a vin- dictive pleasure in punishing the least
shortcomings. The consequence was, that the smaller boys spent their days in terror and suffering and their nights in plotting revenge.
They have their own nature; they can of themselves minister to our self-esteem by the demand their qualities make upon our skill and their
shortcomings upon our hardiness and endurance.