Mrs. Norris, whose attachment seemed to augment with the demerits of her niece, would have had her received at home and countenanced by them all. 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.
I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
I immediately began to discuss the merits and demerits of Frederick with my usual and abrupt frankness. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
Everything natural, probable, reasonable, was against it; all their habits and ways of thinking, and all her own demerits. 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.