" "As to Yu," added the Master, "I can find no flaw in him.

Let cynics and critics, and unbelievers like Bayle, delight to pick flaws in David's life.

If I had had a quiet talk with him I think I would have been able to discover a flaw in my case against him.

HIS COUNTENANCE CHANGES: HIS LONG BONY FINGERS NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME DETECT THE FATAL FLAW IN HIS TROUSERS POCKET.

If Crewe had not succeeded in destroying Rolfe's conviction that the murderer of Sir Horace Fewbanks had been caught, he had pointed out sufficient flaws in the police case to shake Rolfe's previous assurance of the legal conviction of Birchill for the crime.

After that was done they did not return again, making some excuse to prevent the foreigners from seeing the flaw in the empire.

The deluge of sunlight that fell upon her face betrayed no crack or wrinkleno flaw of any kindin the white marble of its perfection.

Its exterior design is good; and if the stone of its facade had been of a better qualityhad contained fewer flaws and been more closely jointedit would have merited one of our best architectural bows.

"They're not his banners at all, they're ours,Carey banners; that's what they are!" Mother Carey had wished the same thing, but hoped that Nancy had not noticed the Gilbertian flaw in the telegram.

For there was an under side to all this gold-tissued splendor that was sometimes laid bare to the people, in spite of the deftness with which the Signoria stood tirelessly ready to cover up the flaws; and a recent sad travesty of justice was one of the weird happenings of this time.

To come to such a conclusion with a full knowledge of what was the mind of this nation in regard to slavery, when that instrument was made, demonstrates a moral or intellectual flaw that makes all reasoning useless.

By the Light that knows no flaw, By the Circle's perfect law, By the Serpent's life renewed, By the Wings' similitude

This flaw in the Syllogism was first pointed out by Mr. Alfred Sidgwick. (e) The formal Syllogism, moreover, conceals another formal flaw.

It is the habit of overlooking this little flaw in the imperatives of ownership that enables people to say that this war cannot go on beyond such and such a datethe end of 1916 is much in favour

800 If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch their flaws, and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty: but here fix the mark; For all beyond it is to touch the ark.

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.

As Sire de Joinville, so also had many knights, honest burghers, and simple country-folks recognized the flaws in the enterprise, and felt no more belief in its success.

If you can only glorify humanity by telling lies about it, and by ruling out all the flaws in it, you end by being a sentimentalist.

Yet mature reflection shows two flaws in this definition.

It is but fair to the democrats to say it is no act of theirs; they inherited the misfortune, and are likely to keep it, as it is one of the fundamental principles of their Constitution, and they have a salutary dreadmuch to their praiseof tinkering up any flaw they find in that document, lest in mending one hole they make two.

The Free Trader's speech as he left the room, however, had touched the one flaw in Galen Albret's confidence of righteousness.

He turns a flaw into a strength by acknowledging it, working with it instead of trying to hide it.

But the schooner, after standing for a moment, all flapping, answered another flaw, and went wide about on the opposite tack.

The King shall weigh the ringI mean, of course, Your wordsalthough the flaw is evidentThe flaw that's in the stoneyou understand.

" Let's play it outthis little game called Work, Or War or Love or what part each may draw; Play like a man who scorns to quit or shirk Because the break may carry some deep flaw; Nor simply holding that the goal is all That keeps the player in the contest staying; But stick it out from curtain rise to fall, As if the game itself were worth the playing.