If a man's working-hours are not to be respectedif his privacy is to be thus invaded on the flimsiest of pretexts,why, then, one may very reasonably look for chaos to come again.

Commodus admired the team a minute, then examined the new high wheels of the gilded chariot, that was hardly wider than a coffina thing that a man could upset with a shove and built to look as flimsy as an egg shell.

Nothing cheap or flimsy about the culverts.

choosing the flimsy before the substantial?

A recent writer criticizes these as too flimsy in effect, but the fact that they are in pairs obviates this defect from most points of view.

It strikes me that the kind of marriage you propose would be a good deal flimsier than this will.