Weaker

Examples

• They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• An idea is by its very nature weaker and fainter than an impression; but being in every other respect the same, cannot imply any very great mystery. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But across that long distance these currents for many reasons grew still weaker. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This accounts for the phenomenon of the weaker of the two usually having a bundle of firewood thrust between its jaws in hot weather. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The more distant the fountain, the weaker the flow. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They have the same employments--the only difference between them is that the one sex is stronger and the other weaker. Plato. The Republic.
• I want to say them now, before I get weaker. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In the same manner, steam engine boilers might be constructed with a small portion comparatively weaker, so that if it gave way there would not be much damage done. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• No, he said, they share alike; the only difference between them is that the males are stronger and the females weaker. Plato. The Republic.
• It is the weaker party and can hope for success only through strategy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They are changed from time to time from weaker into stronger liquor until the tanning process is complete. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I should in that case hold you, replied the yeoman, a friend to the weaker party. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Though much might be fancy, he could not doubt, when he looked back, that she was in a weaker state of health than she had been half a year ago. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I lingered thus for about two months, without any visible change in my health or spirits, except that I grew weaker and thinner every day. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Mr. Godfrey, tried by circumstances, showed himself of weaker metal than I had thought him to be. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I feel weaker than formerly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• T he varieties of man seem to act on each other in the same way as different specimens of animals--the stronger always extirpating the weaker. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• She was the weaker then, and Beth tried to comfort and sustain her, with her arms about her and the soothing words she whispered in her ear. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A weaker man would have sent off a letter to his wife on the instant of his capture. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Weaker and weaker became the lioness's efforts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She grew weaker each day, and each day she had further to go. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The conscience of mankind was weaker and less intelligent then than now. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I walked no further than the gate of the gardens, and then pretended to be weaker than I was, and asked Joe for his arm. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My hopes are much weaker. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• When his mind had been weaker his heart had led him to speak out; but reason having now somewhat recovered itself he sank into taciturnity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Then, I said, no science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker? Plato. The Republic.
• My sight is weaker again tonight, and the glass of this window is not good. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The front pair of legs terminate in very strong and heavy pincers, and the last pair are fitted with others weaker and much narrower. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Weaker than that, I took the withered flowers out and put them for a moment to her lips. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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