Nevertheless the eighteenth century accomplished for us an immense literary progress, and its very shortcomings in poetry were an instrument to that progress, and served it.

But the reader of today will feel that the worst shortcomings of the book are not its immoralities, but its sins against art.

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.

The shortcomings of men are no excuse for you to be unwomanly," said aunt Helen.

Some shortcomings of the labor unions Are the shortcomings of the labor unions accidental or inherent?

Any one of many may have started his tongue, but the shortcomings of one Ezekiel Swackhammer were for him an ever present help and provocation.