Drunkenness and utter inefficiency prevailed to a terrible extent amongst the clergy in this district; whilst education was a question that never troubled either the clergy or the people.

This son of Gan, meantime, and several of the Paladins who were disgusted with Charles's credulity, and anxious at all events to be with Orlando, had joined the hero in the fated valley; so that the little Christian host, considering the tremendous valour of their lord and his friends, and the comparative inefficiency of that of the infidels, were at any rate not to be sold for nothing.

There is a wide diversity in human beings ranging from herculean physical strength to pitiable weakness; from the mental power of genius to the nonentity of imbecility; from outstanding and unquestionable talent in arts and letters to illiteracy and clumsy inefficiency.

The snow apparently caught what feeble light the moon forced through, reflecting it with a disconsolate inefficiency.

But a new scene of intestine violence completed the picture of executive inefficiency.

Our pet name for Shikari Mark II., who reigns in the stead of Ahmed Bot, sacked for expensive inefficiency.

"What are you getting at?" "Your hopeless inefficiency, monsieur.... Forgive my bluntness.

Certainly not by idleness, inefficiency, an easy policy of laissez faire.

He had done his duty respectably as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, for he possessed sufficient courage and capacity to render average service in subordinate positions, though at a later date he showed abject inefficiency as commander of an army.

The raison d'être of the greater number of minor mental inefficiencies the psychanalyst puts down to handicaps in the unconscious.

The raison d'être of the greater number of minor mental inefficiencies the psychanalyst puts down to handicaps in the unconscious.

But in her morose inefficiency she had developed into an unconscious tyranta tyrant whose power lay in the loyalty of her subjects and not at all in her own soul.

Now one of the outstanding effects of disease of the adrenal glands is the feelings of muscular and mental inefficiency.

She regrets that Human advancement has no moments when conservative reforming intellect takes a nap, while imagination does a little toryism by the sly, revelling in regret that dear old brown, crumbling, picturesque inefficiency is everywhere giving place to sick-and-span, new-painted, new-varnished efficiency, which will yield endless diagrams, plans, elevations and sections; but, alas!

That way lies stagnation, waste, progressive inefficiency and ultimate disaster.

The Lord Mayor wrote to Peel acknowledging the total inefficiency of the City Police.

"This class exhibits a lamentable inefficiency, and a great want of simplicity.

The shortcomings of the clergy are a favourite topic with him, and a varied gallery of the existing types of clerical inefficiency may be formed from his pages.