Sentence Examples

  • Kutuzov's merit lay, not in any strategic maneuver of genius, as it is called, but in the fact that he alone understood the significance of what had happened.
  • The merit of Bruce is that he did not despise the lesson.
  • The relative merit of the two systems depends upon the question how we can secure the best efficiency and equity in the application of the principles thus far laid down.
  • The judges at Lyons placed it fifteenth in order of merit among the sixteen essays sent in.
  • This narrow and pedantic theory had at least the merit of insisting on propriety of expression.
 
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