The 7th Corps, commanded by General Douay, only possessed two divisionsDumont's division and Gilbert's divisionand formed the other battle front, covering the army of Givonne to Floing on the side of Illy; this battle front was comparatively weak, too open on the side of Givonne, and only protected on the side of the Meuse by the two cavalry divisions of Margueritte and Bonnemains, and by Guyomar's brigade, resting in squares upon Floing.

As a widower and childless, he was unincumbered by domestic ties and duties; and although physically weak, he had great endurance and patience.

Year by year France became numerically weaker in comparison with her victorious neighbour, but in reality she became ever more powerful.

When he rose up he walked back feeling giddy and exceedingly weak, but with a contrite heart, and then washed himself thoroughly and changed his clothes, but his weakness increasing he lay down for the rest of the day, but read in the Book of Job and was much comforted.

Lady Studley looked terribly weak and excitedthe hectic spots on her cheeks, the gleaming glitter of her eyes, the parched lips, the long, white, emaciated hands, all showed only too plainly the strides the malady under which she was suffering was making.

I may possibly live, (said he,) or rather breath, three days, or perhaps three weeks; but find myself daily and gradually weaker.

In short nothing can be more pitiably weak than the conduct of the Presbyterian party from the first capture of Charles I. Common sense required, either a bold denial that the Church had power in ceremonies more than in doctrines, or that the Parliament was the Church, since it is the Parliament that enacts all these things;or if they admitted the authority lawful and the ceremonies only, in their mind, inexpedient, good God!

The army of the triumvirs was now superior to the enemy; but their cavalry, counting only thirteen thousand, was considerably weaker than the force opposed to it.

But on David's own theory, that he was an utterly weak person without the help of God, the act is perfectly like David.

"It is often the best policy, when the defence is hopelessly weak.

Of all the household at the Elms she was least disturbed by the tragedy, but, naturally, one does not expect the mentally weak to realise sorrow like ordinary people.

The ordinary criteria, employed every day by the man in the street to distinguish man from woman may be arranged as follows: Man Woman Hair on face Hairless face Skin coarse and lean Skin fine and plump Muscles powerful Relatively weak Bones heavy Bones light Aggressivebass

I was still strangely weak, barely able to retain my grasp, with a peculiar dullness in my head, which made me fearful that at any moment I might let go.

He was still a trifle weak and uncertain, was still a little glad to lean on the arms of his companions, but his eye was bright and alert, and his hollow cheeks mounted a slight colour.

As, from the nature of our climate, and the fewness of our inhabitants, we are undoubtedly weak, should we not endeavor to form a close union with the Eastern States, who are strong?

His hair was sandy, and the thin moustache and beard failed to cover the pitifully weak lines of his mouth and chin.

as so often happened with Toby, while the spirit was willing the flesh was lamentably weak, and he could not make a sound except a sort of spluttering gasp, while his eyes blinked, and his face grew rosy red.

The centres were decidedly weaker in the new Chambers.

Those walls, however, were miserably weak, and the French generals utterly scouted the possibility of their being held.

Genius and sanctity are far removed from good-nature, which is essentially weak in all its manifestations.

Here, again, we have curiously weak arguments adduced to support the view that these numerous straight lines imply works of art rather than of nature, especially in the comparison made with the belts of Jupiter and the spots on the sun, both purely atmospheric phenomena, whereas the lines on Mars are on the solid surface of the planet.

Democracy had made the Greeks intellectually glorious, but politically weak.

It was quite true that the object of such charity was the most useful which any society could undertake; namely, that of assisting the industrially weak to stand on their own legs.

He seemed infinitely younginfinitely weak and helpless.

They may be intellectually weak.