She is young, handsome, clever, and unscrupulous; she has made money to live on, and has time at her disposal to find out the
weak side of an old man; and she is going to attack Mr.
But my mistress knew the
weak side of me; she put it as a favour to herself.
There is always a
weak side in the character of such a person as that.
Treville had grasped the
weak side of his master; and it was to this address that he owed the long and constant favor of a king who has not left the reputation behind him of being very faithful in his friendships.
You know the
weak side of her character, and may imagine the sentiments and expressions which were torturing me.
"You know my
weak side. Still it's truth all the same.
The Doctor, as he very well knew, had assailed Esther on her
weak side; and, as he doubted not of the acceptable quality of his prescription, he sat himself at work, without unnecessary delay, to prepare it.
You only want to have your heads set straight, to take the right side; so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see a man or boy striving earnestly on the
weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him.
although I may show you my
weak side, I challenge you all; you atheists, for instance!
Idle and incapable, he hated Rabourdin,--naturally enough, for Rabourdin had no vice to flatter, and no bad or
weak side on which Dutocq could make himself useful.
The kettle's
weak side clearly being, that he didn't know when he was beat.
One of the
weak sides of republics, among their numerous advantages, is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption.