The lack of supplies is the great drawback to its development, and this will not be overcome to any extent until by some means heavy freight can be brought over the coast range to the head of the river.

[Footnote 33: Except by a branch line from Adana to Alexandretta, Rohrbach (pp. 27, 36, 37) laments the economic drawbacks of this strategic necessity.]

But Henry was as yet only the chief of a party, not the accepted sovereign of the whole nation; and the enthusiasm with which half the citizens rained their shouts of exultation in his honor had its drawback in the sullen silence of the other half, who regarded the great Bourbon as their conqueror rather than their king, and his triumphant entrance as their defeat and humiliation.

Sometimes one promised regular customers a drawback on standard rates.

That will be a sad drawback from the delights of a two-shilling quartern-loaf.

In Canada, she would be free from all control, and one must not weigh drawbacks against one's duty.

There the heights made a lee that extended all over the cape, and for some distance to the westward; while the whole power the sun possessed in that high latitude was cast, very obliquely it is true, but clearly, and without any other drawback than its position in the ecliptic, fairly on the terrace, the hut above, and the rocks around it.

Indeed, friends will be only a drawback for the next ten days.

The last novelette which M. Turgénieff has published, "The Unfortunate One" (Neschastnaya) is free from the drawbacks by which, as far as English readers are concerned, "Fathers and Children" and "Smoke," are attended; but it is exceedingly sad and painful.

A reasonable number of guests were no drawback at a time like this, as the chuck-line men would be the most active in opening the ice with axes.

What with inundations in summer and sand-drifts in winter, this locality must have some drawbacks as a residence.