A couple of flat pieces of inch-thick wood, four inches wide by six long, with a loop of leather defectively fastened for the insertion of the foot went to make up the pair of "backsters" by whose assistance I succeeded in traversing two miles of rough, loose shingle that separates the southern and eastern edge of Lydd marsh from the sea.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
Then one day a defectively wired machine came sliding along, and dutifully Sam hooked it up and flipped the switch.
"The Odyssey of Sam Meecham"
Charles E. Fritch
Without it we work in the dark, and therefore feebly, defectively.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert