Although he had studied for a term or two at McGill University, he knew his drawbacks.

You wanted me to weigh things and would have been resigned if I had found the drawbacks too much.

There were hundreds, and probably thousands, of similar incidents, and Mormonism proved a sad drawback to the happiness of a people who otherwise had before them prospects of a most delightful character.

Though, after the first few trials, the whole body will ache, and the astonished muscles tremble with soreness, a week's perseverance will overcome these earlier drawbacks.

He was, in addition, foppish in his dress, and on account of his money, position, and tailor, felt the country boys of the class a decided drawback to his social status.

The Scheer binding avoids these drawbacks.

It was, after all, no misfortune for humanity that Frederick Douglass felt the iron hand of slavery; for his genius changed the drawbacks of color and condition into levers by which he raised himself and his people.

And, after all, there are some circumstances necessarily attending the work which constitute a heavy drawback on the pleasures which it might otherwise afford.

One gain alone counterbalances all the drawbacks, and that is a gain that could hardly have been foreseen or expected; I mean the freedom with which the great controversies of religion and theology have been discussed in the new Reviews.

He had thought of all that, and in the dearth of fitting objects of affection had resolved to endure the drawback of the connection.

This last arrangement could be carried out comparatively easily under our present system, but entails the drawback that the system of twofold division is still in force within the brigades and divisions.

The growth and development of the brain having been once retarded, the youthful user of tobacco (especially the foolish cigarette-smoker) has established a permanent drawback which may hamper him all his life.

I believe that one or two gentlemen have gone to England to explain the drawbacks viva voce.

They reckon up the advantages, and forget the drawbacks.

To these must be added, in a disease which chiefly affects the poor, another item, forming an important drawback on the utility of the ordinary vapour-bath,the application of it is attended with no inconsiderable expense.

But when you must give up so much I durst not hide the drawbacks.

One must admit the situation was bad; and for a minute or two Mortimer cleverly indicated its drawbacks.

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

Madame de Trezac would have liked to do what she could to second the Princess's efforts in this or any other line; and even the old Duchessthough piously desirous of seeing her favourite nephew marriedwould have thought it not only natural but inevitable that, while awaiting that happy event, he should try to induce an amiable young woman to mitigate the drawbacks of celibacy.

But here again we must note a serious drawback.

But after a short investigation, Patty was as firmly convinced as Marian that its charms could not offset its drawbacks.

Writers on Art and manufactures, of varying eminence and opinion, are unanimous in pointing out the serious drawbacks to progress which will exist, so long as there is a demand for cheap and meretricious imitations of old furniture, as opposed to more simply made articles, designed in accordance with the purposes for which they are intended.

Dry stamping, however, presents many serious drawbacks, some of which could probably be eliminated if they received proper attention.

Sometimes one promised regular customers a drawback on standard rates.

This, we venture to think, must be pronounced a grave drawback to the value of the author's present speculation.