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Значения термина come short на английском

Fail to meet (expectations or standards)

Использование термина come short на английском
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Where these laws come short others should be enacted to supplement them.
State of the Union Addresses
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She, who had never complained, should of a surety not come short!
Australia Felix
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The keen air oppressed his chest, making his breath come short.
The Far Horizon
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They prefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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Nor would the blessed antitype come short of the type.
The Theology of Holiness
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But it was not this alone that made his breath come short and raggedly.
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
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I've sinned and come short, but drive 'em, O Lord!
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
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All men in the future would come short when compared with Sheikh Rashid al Harum.
Accidentally the sheikh's wife
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You are liberal with your oaths and promises, but come short in deeds, in performances.
The Youth of the Great Elector
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The Church must not come short of this joy.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
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We were very anxious indeed not to come short.
The Pool in the Desert
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But to my surprise she did not come short.
Mr. Fortescue / An Andean Romance
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How mortifying, how dreadful in all things to come short of even one's own standard.
Stepping Heavenward
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He'd come short off if I got to him!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917
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I'm a sinner.' But we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Ebony
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If I come short in any circumstance, I beg pardon of those that can correct me.
The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men
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