"Williams forgets your age, Rosalind," replied Helen: but though there was pain in recalling this disqualifying truth, there was a glance of pleasure too in the look with which Helen thanked her; and Charles, as he gazed on her swollen eyes and working features, felt that, cruel as she had been to him, she must ever be the dearest, as she was the best and the loveliest, being in the world.
"The Vicar of Wrexhill"
Mrs [Frances] Trollope
If I consider you worthy of my friendship, why should you make disqualifying assertions?
"Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Jane Porter
A man cannot resign his seat, and hence the regular method of accomplishing the same result is the acceptance of a disqualifying office.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell