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Example sentences for "weakling"

Lexicographically close words:
weakening; weakens; weaker; weakest; weakfish; weaklings; weakly; weaknes; weakness; weaknesse
  1. As for me I am nowise strong like him to ward mine own; verily to the end of my days {*} shall I be a weakling and all unskilled in prowess.

  2. For I am no weakling in all sports, even in the feats of men.

  3. We may, however, expect to find in a variant text 'A weakling will be born in the enemy's house'.

  4. If an ewe gives birth to ten, a weakling will acquire universal sovereignty[52].

  5. If a woman gives birth, and the right ear is deformed, a weakling will be born in the man's house.

  6. If a woman gives birth, and the right ear reaches to the cheek, a weakling will be born in the man's house.

  7. We may be sure They'll take their refuge in the thought that mind Becomes a weakling in a weakling frame.

  8. Poor weakling that I was, I could not deny myself.

  9. Gold and silver mines will yield their precious stores, while from these niggard natives we will wrest with mighty arm the tribute they so contemptuously deny the weakling curs who snap and snarl at my heels.

  10. He approached Madame at the table with a semblance of that swagger affected by the weakling in presence of women, yet permitting the wandering eye and uncertain gestures to betray his uneasiness.

  11. You were Protestants but you regarded him as a weakling visionary.

  12. Again and again the portrait is presented of man preying upon man, of cunning a parasite upon stupidity and of predatory strength enslaving the weakling intellect.

  13. These glandular preponderances are at the basis of personality, creating genius and dullard, weakling and giant, Cavalier and Puritan.

  14. It is wonderful, this sudden possession, the possession rightly, even in all the conventional, in all that the weakling centuries dictate.

  15. It's like old times," we heard him mutter; and before many moments the weakling was impulsively whispering down to know if he should follow.

  16. The weakling he registered as he would have done had the marriage been really valid; and, mark you, for all he knew it might be valid still.

  17. What would you say were I to tell you that this weakling of ours, although far from approaching the skill and strength of his friend, is yet able to wield a heavy sword manfully and skilfully?

  18. There are many posts at court where one who is discreet and long- headed may hold his own, and gain honour, so that he be not a mere feeble weakling who can be roughly pushed to the wall by every blusterer.

  19. You have transformed him from a weakling into a brave young knight, of whom I am proud, but you cannot give him your strength or your quickness.

  20. One child was a cripple and a weakling from its birth, another strong and lusty.

  21. You cannot make a good monk out of a man who longs to be a man-at-arms, nor a warrior of a weakling who longs for the shelter of a cloister.

  22. The little weakling was free of the trap and the yellow dog, not knowing what was in store for him, bounded confidently right into the midst of the little family group.

  23. In spite of much encouragement, the little weakling lagged behind the rest of her family; occasionally its mother waited for it to catch up with the others, when she would rub noses with him affectionately.

  24. Out onto the flat stone she scrambled, and then reaching into the water, she caught the little weakling by the nape of its neck, just as an old cat lifts its kittens, and placed him upon the flat stone.

  25. So long as the nurse's negligence escapes notice, so long as the nursling does not break its arms or legs, what matter if it dies or becomes a weakling for life.

  26. Let another tend this weakling for me; I am quite willing, I approve his charity, but I myself have no gift for such a task; I could never teach the art of living to one who needs all his strength to keep himself alive.

  27. I wondered how the gentle weakling fared as cook of the Quick as Wink.

  28. Who would have thought that that lanky weakling would choose a soldier's trade!

  29. I knew myself for the weakling I was, I knew that nevertheless it was set for me to make such order as I could out of these disorders, and my task cowed me, gave me at the thought of it a sense of yielding feebleness.

  30. She comes to the individual man, as she came to me and asks, Is she a cherished weakling or an equal mate, an unavoidable helper?

  31. Thy dam Bare thee a craven and a weakling wretch Frail in comparison of me, as is A cur beside a lion thunder-voiced!

  32. No man bare a sword unstained With murder of defenceless folk of Troy, Though he were but a weakling in fair fight.

  33. Submit we to his portents; needs must all Obey him ever, who is mightier far Than all strong Gods, all weakling sons of men.

  34. If he had been the sort of weakling that dies because he can't have a particular woman, he'd have been also the sort of weakling that leaves a letter explaining.

  35. Her husband appears to have been a weakling who counted for nothing in her life after the birth of her children.

  36. I believe that the poor weakling did his best to keep faith and honor.

  37. So Finn proceeded to lick one of the other pups, the weakling of the group.

  38. But it was not part of Nature's plan that any of the bloodhound mother's energies should be wasted over the weakling of her little brood.

  39. Had it been a human child, skilled nurture would likely have sustained its weakling life, possibly for many years.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weakling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.