Don Juan is in scope and magnitude a far wider work; but no considerable series of stanzas in Don Juan are so free from serious artistic flaw.

In the midst of the most serious passages (e.g. the "Ave Maria") we are checked in our course by bathos or commonplace and thrown where the writer did not mean to throw us: but the mocking spirit is so prevailingly present that we are often left in doubt as to his design, and what is in Harold an outrage is in this case only a flaw.

The British barrage was without a flaw, says an eyewitness.

Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doomed that Shock must fall.

Shall we, or shall we not, account him so, Who died, perhaps, a hundred years ago? End all dispute; and fix the year precise When British bards begin t' immortalize? 'Who lasts a century can have no flaw, I hold that wit a classic, good in law.' Suppose he wants a year, will you compound?

"The only flaw is that I suppose it's about time to go in to dinner.

Lanyard woke up the next morning to view from his stateroom deadlights vistas illimitable of flat blue flawed by hardly a wrinkle; only by watching the horizon was one aware of the slow swell of the sea, its sole perceptible motion.

I felt that the flaw in my life, must be a flaw in life itself; that the question was, whether, if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and every person in the community were free and in a state of physical comfort, the pleasures of life, being no longer kept up by struggle and privation, would cease to be pleasures.

I felt that the flaw in my life, must be a flaw in life itself; that the question was, whether, if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and every person in the community were free and in a state of physical comfort, the pleasures of life, being no longer kept up by struggle and privation, would cease to be pleasures.

If no flaw exists in your title, then it does exist in one that was drawn up a hundred years ago; and in either case the result is the sameyou lose.

To make a fat Lamb of a Pig. Take a fat Pig and scald him, and cut off his head, slit him and trusse him up like a Lamb, then being slit through the middle, and flawed, then parboyle him a little, then draw him with parsley as you do a Lamb, then roast it and dridge it, and serve it up with Butter, Pepper, and Sugar.

But really, William, I cannot boast of constancy like yours, even; though I suppose most people would consider that rather a poor, flawed specimen.

When there is a crack in the skull, Nature herself, with a tough horny callous repairs the breach; so a flawed intellect is with a brawny callous face supplied.

Even if it is just the framework for a much more substantial future version, it is based on a fundamentally flawed vision of push-button politics.

the Frenshe monster, Neapolitan Seignor, the man-makarel and marchant of madens-fleshe that deales altogether in flawed ware and crackt comodityes?

And so betwixt us Increase a frendshipp that was never flawed.

The temptation to treat copyright as though it came down off the mountain on two stone tablets (or worse, as "just like" real property) is deeply flawed, since, by definition, current copyright only considers the last generation of tech.

We raised another block in a different part of the quarry, and found that the area of a circular depression in the stratum below was broken and flawed in every direction, as if it had been the bottom of a pool, recently dried up, which had shrunk and split in the hardening.

Her black eyes flawed and sparkled with a snaky fierceness, her full lips compressed, and her brows bent and darkened.

Her black eyes flawed and sparkled with a snaky fierceness, her full lips compressed, and her brows bent and darkened.

More by chance than skill the blow fell absolutely true, and the steel, either flawed or over-tempered, snapped.

Both elements of journalism, it seems to me, are flawed.

His editorials and columns have lot of spelling errors and the grammar is often flawed.

But there was a twist in his brain which made his pictures of real life appear like scenes looked at through flawed glass.

It was through a dank and tear-flawed world that she stumbled conventward, while out of the east the sun came bathed in mists, a watery sun no brighter than a silver coin.