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    find fault


    1. "He constantly picked on everything that I did, trying to find fault with it


    2. considered the plan for a long time and couldn’t find fault in


    3. He can find fault with anything, and his tirades against local officials are legendary


    4. No well-meaning American can find fault with this statement


    5. “Now who could find fault with that, Georgie?” chided Lydia playfully


    6. 19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has


    7. 19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For


    8. He knew that some reporters still resented her strong feminist views and had tried to find fault with her in their articles


    9. He was stunned by my approach, whatever he had expected from me, wasn’t what he was getting, he stammered his apology and began to chant the first song of the ceremony, the drums reached a crescendo and the crowd began to chant in time to the rhythm, the holiday mood had returned to the village, Yaotl sacrificed a variety of birds, animals and snakes, and as the finale his slaves finally brought out a mountain lion in a cage, everyone craned their necks for a better look at the beast as it spat and snarled and threw it’s body against the cage, I remembered the last time Yaotl had made such an extravagant sacrifice during a drought two summers ago, I didn’t want to seem small and mean, but the cat that Yaotl had sacrificed that day, looked exactly like that cat in the cage, so I watched the sacrifice closely, one of the slaves put a bowl of water in the cage which the cat drank with relish, it had obviously been kept without water for a few days, after the cat drank, it stopped spitting and snarling and the same slave opened the gate put a collar on the cat and led it to the chacmool it jumped up onto the slab and Yaotl began to make signs all over it, to everyone’s astonishment it then lay down on the altar, Yaotl raised his obsidian knife and with one stroke drove it into the breast of the beast, after a moment he held up the heart, blood running down his arms, I could not find fault with the sacrifice, maybe I was wrong, maybe it wasn’t the same cat, the sacrifice had the desired affect on the villagers who were all dancing about and singing, two slaves dragged the carcass into the temple building, the priest ceremoniously washed the blood from his arms and chest donned his official robe and slowly descended the temple steps, at the bottom he flung himself to the ground and said


    10. most parents quickly find fault with the men who date their

    11. Ingrid, both saddened and sickened by the extent of the carnage, could hardly find fault with those soldiers in view of what they had gone through


    12. Who am I to find faults in others’ plans? Karan’s thoughts once again brought fresh tears in my eyes


    13. Why? Because He does; not to judge or find fault, but to love and engage, and bring the life of Christ to them


    14. �I can�t say I find fault in your logic,� he admitted


    15. We can have a perfect inspection every time and he will find fault with it,” I said


    16. She knew that she could not say anything about it to Henri as he would find fault with Dominique


    17. God says, “Among the Believers there are men who have been true to their covenant with Al’lah, and in establishing the truth they have never been afraid of the censure of those who find fault


    18. Out in the garden, for instance, down there beyond the lime-trees at the end, where you could stand in the gap in the lilac hedge and look straight out across the rye-fields, the immense unending rye-fields, dipping and rising, delicate grey, delicate green, shining in sunlight, dark beneath a cloud, restlessly waving, on and on, till over away at the end of things they got to the sky and were only stopped by brushing up against it--out there with one's hand shading one's eyes from the too great brightness, who could find fault with anything, who could do anything but look and see that it was all very good? Oh, but it _was_ good


    19. "Stop trying to find faults with my girl," Eugene says through clenched teeth


    20. and likes to find fault with a lot of what I have to say

    21. To find fault with others creates obstacles for everyone all around: for him who criticizes, for him who is blamed, as well as for those who listen to the criticism


    22. They should not find fault with their child's comments and questions, and should respect his confidence when he tells them about the practices of his friends and schoolmates


    23. But I believe before I should let her marry, I should worry myself to death; I should find fault with all her suitors


    24. It is true, from off the basis of the Guild, the women could look at their homes, at the conditions of their own lives, and find fault


    25. If she had occasion to find fault, she did it coolly and with perfect politeness, which the defaulter felt to be a bigger insult than crassness


    26. "Faith, Franz," whispered Albert, "there is not much to find fault with here


    27. "That is just what I find fault with


    28. At these meetings none of the `respectable' working men were allowed to ask any questions, or to object to, or find fault with anything that was said, or to argue, or discuss, or criticize


    29. Therefore, on my own account, I had a satisfaction at seeing the abridgement which you made of our former inebrieties; but there are other persons of a conjugal nature, who look upon such castrations as a deficiency of their rights, and the like of them will find fault with the best procedures


    30. If he had to blame any one, it was necessary for him to move all the papers within his reach, or describe various diagrams with his stick, or make calculations with the odd money in his pocket, before he could begin; and he would rather do other men's work than find fault with their doing

    31. But then, Rosamond had no scowls and had never raised her voice: she was quite sure that no one could justly find fault with her


    32. "Tertius did not find fault with me, then?" said Rosamond, understanding now that Lydgate might have said anything to Mrs


    33. Women cited him as the most considerate and delicate of men, pitied him, and even went so far as to find fault with the passion and grief of Eugenie, blaming her, as women know so well how to blame, with cruel but discreet insinuation


    34. So grim had Thorin become, that even if they had wished, the others would not have dared to find fault with him; but indeed most of them seemed to share his mind-except perhaps old fat Bombur and Fili and Kili


    35. But that sort of conduct is to the world's credit; therefore it is not well to find fault with it


    36. She could not find fault with Sonya in any way and tried to be fond of her, but often felt ill-will toward her which she could not overcome


    37. Grammarians find fault with sentences in which ni is not repeated before each of the subjects or objects, but usage is against them


    38. Some would find fault with the morning red, if they ever got up early enough


    39. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise


    40. Alice turned round, ready to find fault with anybody

    41. Of the Russian authorities, some find fault with Napoleon, and others are of opinion that he adopted the only possible course


    42. I feel obliged to tell your Majesty the whole truth, and however unpleasant it is to have to find fault with any of my fellow-officers, I am compelled to state that under the circumstances I cannot answer for the safety of the retreat


    43. Again, I have noticed one characteristic in myself almost from childhood, that I am too ready to find fault, and given to blaming others


    44. Not infrequently, too, he would wink at us and make secret signs when Grandmamma was beginning to scold us and find fault with us all round


    45. They'd have no one to hate then, no one to curse, nothing to find fault with


    46. The old man wondered at first, and laughed at the change he noticed in his son; but after a while he ceased to find fault with him, and thought of the many times when it was he who was the guilty one


    47. If anything should be done in a way not exactly to please him he will find fault and perhaps flog some of us to death—as was the case with poor Simeon, whom he killed not long ago


    48. She could not find fault with Sónya in any way and tried to be fond of her, but often felt ill-will toward her which she could not overcome


    49. But gentlemen say, in a crisis like the present, when each individual ought to contribute his mite, it is very easy to find fault; and they ask for a substitute


    50. Let it not be inferred that I am disposed to find fault; I believe when we consider the very extraordinary state of the foreign world, and retrospect the embarrassing circumstances which have surrounded us, the course pursued by them ought to be deemed substantially correct, certainly so as respects their leading object, which has been to avoid making this country a party in the present war



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