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I soon turned the conversation toward America, a theme which I knew would be interesting, and upon which I could be fluent and agreeable. I strove to talk in Addisonian English, and ere long could see very plainly that my polished phrases were making a surprising impression, though that miserable shooting-jacket of mine was a perpetual drawback to my claims to gentility.
It was almost night when the camp was reached, and the men were very tired. Next morning the samples taken the previous day were crushed and carefully washed. When all was finished, Jordan said: "Jim, it's a honest mine. Ther only drawback is ther place. I've no idee what er road would cost, but it would take a power o' money, sho."
Further down it became partly a clay bank, and there on the coarse grass used to hang snail-shells of all sizes, and, as I remember them, of shining gold and silver. The inhabitant was the drawback to all that beauty, yet when we found an empty house, it was cold, dull, and with the sheen vanished.
'I did not mean it, she answered; 'I have not a word to say against it. It is quite right, and I am sure I don't wish to do otherwise. 'Only it is the first drawback in our real day-dream. 'Just so, and that is all, said Amy; 'I am glad you feel the same, not that I want you to change your mind. 'Don't you remember our resolution against mere pleasure-hunting?
The want of margin in the cage, when he peeped through the bars, wholly ceased to be appreciable. It was a drawback only in superficial commerce. With Captain Everard she had simply the margin of the universe. It may be imagined therefore how their unuttered reference to all she knew about him could in this immensity play at its ease.
Swear loudly, and put your whole mind to it." Claudius strode to the window of their sitting-room and looked out. "It is extremely awkward, upon my word," he said. "What is awkward, Professor? The invitation?" "Yes very." "Why, pray? I should think you would be very much pleased." "Exactly I should be: but there is a drawback." "Of what nature? Anything I can do?" "Not exactly.
Napoleon the Great used to say that war should support war; but this was going a step further, and making war supply the means of waging war. The only drawback was this, that the more elaborate the weapons which you put into a soldier's hands, the more skill he requires to use them effectively; and this skill can only be acquired by proper training.
The only drawback to the regenerative burner is that it is by far the best form of gas stove as well as burner, and that the amount of heat thrown out by the radiant solid matter in the flame is, under some circumstances, an annoyance.
Had he induced his victim to accept without question the name and character of some still more open criminal? There was no time now, however, to drawback or to hesitate. The die was cast; he must stand by its arbitrament. He had decided to go, and on that hasty decision had acted in a way that was practically irrevocable.
For decent food-supplies can generally be obtained in the smallest places; the drawback is that nobody can cook them. Dirty food by day and dirty beds by night will daunt the most enterprising natures in the long run. These tracks are only traversed in summer.
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