Argued with the jury on substantial worldly grounds--the only grounds ever worth taking into account-- it was a plain case, and had not a
weak spot in it.
What a cursed chance which had brought him once more face to face with the one
weak spot in his life, the one chapter which, had he the power, he would most willingly seal for ever!
"There is a
weak spot here," he said, placing a finger upon the map.
We are all cranks, more or less,--all got our
weak spot, I mean.
The
weak spot in his argument was his inability to suggest a reasonable motive.
Yet I always used to feel that there was a
weak spot where some day strain would tell.
The idea was a splendid one; indeed, the only
weak spot about it was a fear lest Good's almanack might be incorrect.
Still, if you can bowl a bit your low cunning won't get rusty, and always looking for the
weak spot's just the kind of mental exercise one wants.
Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a
weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.
I have seen his testimonials, and from the first he was a decent, quiet, hard-working fellow, with no
weak spot in him at all.
The state of that wretch who continually finds the
weak spots in his own crime, and strives to strengthen them when it is unchangeable, is a state that aggravates the offence by doing the deed a thousand times instead of once; but it is a state, too, that tauntingly visits the offence upon a sullen unrepentant nature with its heaviest punishment every time.
Carefully coached the evening before by des Lupeaulx, who knew all the countess's
weak spots, she was flattering her without seeming to do so.