Their chief drawback is their expense, which, in proportion to their fuel value, is greater than that of the starches.
Its chief drawback is that the long tubes are very difficult to keep clean.
Neither the stomach, nor anything that we may have eaten, has anything to do with it.
If you cannot find out the cause, then go to a doctor and ask him to tell you what it is, and what to do to get rid of it.
The greatest climatic drawback is the searching winds.
One great drawbackto the full enjoyment and probably to the full development of the benefits of the cruise was the condition of Admiral Evans' health.
Besides these, I admire George Meredith's books more than any others, the one drawback being that when I have re-read one of his I cannot interest myself in anything else for a long time.
Macbeth's attempt to secure himself against this drawback in the completest manner by extirpating the dangerous thane and his family to the last scion of his stock, and also how this cruel purpose succeeded against all but Macduff himself.
Banquo was to be lesser than Macbeth and yet greater, to get kings though to be none; and to secure against this drawback is Macbeth's purpose in his plot against Banquo and Fleance, by which the rival family would be extirpated.
Further the dramatist contrives to exhibit Antonio to us in circumstances calculated to bring out this drawback to his perfection.
Its greatest drawback is its exceedingly slow growth.
That drawback tends to restrict the artificial planting of this tree.
A drawback is found in the non-durable qualities of black gum.
All I know is this: I am proud of my calling after all (though it has been attended by one dreadful drawback which has told upon my heart, and almost equally upon my skeleton), and I mean to live by my calling.
But, there may have been the drawback on this magnanimous morality, that its exponents held a true witness before Justice to be the next unneighbourly and accursed character to a false one.
This sudden change of temperature is the only drawbackto Yalta, and invalids who come here for health must carefully avoid exposing themselves to the night-air.
The imputed one of the war does not appear to me sufficient, though the drawback from all by the income-tax is severely an underminer of comfort.
The drawback is that with every change of administration the streets are re-baptized and the statues shifted to make room for new favourites; so the civic landmarks come and go, with the swiftness of a cinematograph.
For decent food-supplies can generally be obtained in the smallest places; the drawback is that nobody can cook them.
The most serious drawback to the system of government thus instituted was the heavy expense incident to the maintenance of four courts with their trains of officers and dependants.
When, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the towns of Northern Europe began to extend their commercial connections, the greatest drawback to their trade was the general insecurity and disorder that everywhere prevailed.
The disappearance of Major Elliott and his party was the only damper upon our pleasure, and the only drawback to the very successful expedition.
The only drawback was with the cavalry, and to this day I have been unable to account satisfactorily for Torbert's failure.
Now if Viardot, even in that one famous part of Fides, excels Rachel, she must be much the finer actress, having the horrible drawback of the music to get over.
In exceptional cases, however, there is the drawback of cold weather, which retards the growth of the winter crop.
But a great drawback to the adoption of European implements is the aversion of the Egyptian farm labourer to any innovation, his want of intelligence in handling what to him appears complicated machinery, and his unwillingness to learn.
He shone in the reflected light of the admiral, and was made a great deal of by the young Chilian ladies, the only drawbackbeing his ignorance of the language.
As he expected he found that it made an admirable burning-glass, its only drawback being that it was only available when the sun was overhead.
But, if the impracticability of early mulching is a serious drawback to the use of mulches, so is the impracticability of midsummer cultivation under farm conditions a serious objection to dependence upon cultivation alone.
There is, however, a drawback to mulching that may not at first occur to the reader, viz.
The drawback comes when we do not look at these pictures with the eyes of our century.
A thinker finds it a drawback always to be tied to one person.
The worst drawback for the modern student of economics and political science in Europe, and especially in Germany, is that the actual conditions, instead of exemplifying rules, illustrate exceptions or stages of transition and extinction.
To be sure, that is a drawback and no mistake,” cried Keawe.
Somehow' all Molly's wishes came to pass; there was only one little drawback to this week of holiday and happy intercourse with her father.
The Reformed religion is, in almost all its branches, rather a drawback than an assistance to art.
In a shop there's this drawback and that, but one is one's own master.
And he was really glad, for all that littledrawback of fear, that he had the courage to set fire to his house and fly and come to the Potwell Inn.
It was not taken by them as a drawbackon their happiness that they had to make the dresses themselves, for they were accustomed to such work; but this necessity joined to all other preparations for the party made them very busy.
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