Deliberation had been the foible of the Asquith regime; the characteristic of his successor's was the speed of its versatility.
During her stay in this country, this foible was every where perceived, and profited by.
Not that I particularly wish to know; because curiosity is a foible that I detest.
You see what a temper I have--I do not hide the slightest foible from you, and I expect equal sincerity at your hands.
The "Beat" is a quick, sharp blow of the forte of the foil upon the foible of the adversary's, for the purpose of opening a way for a straight lunge which follows instantly.
For he had nothing in common with that usual foible of the young chaplains and tutors who frequent the houses of the great.
But Lord Oxford's foible was to hold long discourses, and Mr. Pope truly said that he had an epical habit of beginning everything at the middle.
She spoke with an affectionate compassion for Lady Mary's foible and an air of innocence which quite took aback the most part of her guests.
There has been much prate lately of as innocent a foible as ever served to make men self-forgetful for a few seconds of time--the collecting of first editions.
Sweet indeed is the community of interest, delightful the intercourse which a common foible begets; but correspondingly bitter and distressful is the forced union of nervous zeal and pitiless indifference.
I liked him to regard the whole artistic productivity of my life as the engaging foible of a pretty woman.
He was a stern, proud man; but if in his childish hauteur he had a double portion of the foible of his order, he was free from many of its vices.
It is a common foible with poets to read their verses to friends.
This foible detected in her lover, Rose was very gay at the prospect of amusement it afforded her.
Raynal, after Josephine's warning, was a little at a loss how to make him available; and even that short delay gave the notary's one foible time to lead him into temptation.
Neither can he write a page without sending a sly bolt of amused perception through it, in which he discovers some foible or pricks some bubble of pretension, but always tenderly, as if he loved his victim.
He took his guest by his foible for pageantry, all the easier as it was a foible of his own; and Charles walked right out of prison into much the same atmosphere of trumpeting and bell-ringing as he had left behind when he went in.
Mens cujusque is est quisque, said his chosen motto; and, as he had stamped his mind with every crook and foible in the pages of the Diary, he might feel that what he left behind him was indeed himself.
He has nofoible which will enlist him against the good of his people; and whatever constitution will promote this, he will befriend.
His foible is a canine appetite for popularity and fame; but he will get above this.
But the least shade or coloring of this odious foible brings certain and indelible obloquy on the most elegant accomplishments.
The famous Gaston de Foix, who commanded the French troops at the battle of Ravenna, took advantage of this foible of his army.
Why should they else have treated domestic jealousy as a foible for ridicule, rather than a subject for deep passion?
But as a sensible person who already knew John's foible and was accustomed to making allowances, she possibly would have been amused and just a bit relieved.
