"Weak point" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was Queen of the States. Another poor fellow, gentlemanly in appearance, said it was a hard run between him and Prince Albert who should have the Queen of England. He had written and received several letters from her. I discovered they had all some weak point, and the doctor gave me the cue. I felt quite at ease amongst them: nearly all are unrestrained; and, strange to say, they never talk to each other, or molest each other in any way. We then visited the House of Correction for the State, where about three-fourths ...
— Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic • George Moore
... that his weak point was slowness of recovery. His thrusts were quick and well planted, he had an excellent guard and mastery of the weapon; but he was slow in recovering after making a lunge, and the longer the fight continued the more evident did this defect become. And it was plain that ...
— Tom Tufton's Travels • Evelyn Everett-Green
... on the side of the husband. Quite as often is a devoted, patient, good-tempered man harassed and hunted and baited by the inconsiderate fault-finding of a wife whose principal talent seems to lie in the ability at first glance to discover and make manifest the weak point in everything. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various
... please, how you select your election officials in your large cities. Our mode of selection is really the weak point with us, for no matter how good a law we might procure, its enforcement would be left to "boss" tools—corruptionists of the ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... that the body had been found?" asked De Chauxville, perceiving the weak point in his companion's chain ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman
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