You will furthermore perceive that the exaggerated affirmations people are always indulging in have led to the weakening of many a word.

I have generally gone into the woods weakened in body and depressed in mind.

Both beak and claws were injured in the effort, and the animal became extremely weakened by the loss of blood.

" I accepted the invitation with some degree of fear and hesitation, which I endeavored to conceal, as I saw that it was too late to back out, and that it would never do to weaken at that point, whether they were friends or foes.

Should this dark suspicion cross his mind, your power is Weakened from that moment, and he will look upon you henceforth as a deeply dyed hypocrite.

I had never known her weaken to them when there seemed to be far better reasons for it than the present occasion furnished.

The influence of her own personal character sustains its supreme test in the evidence constantly accumulating, that it strengthens rather than weakens with the lapse of time.

Moreover, Biron, in grasping at sovereignty, had not hesitated to invite the intrusion of foreign and hostile troops into French territory, or to betray the exigencies and difficulties of the army under his own command to his dangerous allies; thus weakening for the moment, and imperilling for the future, the resources of a frank and trusting master; two formidable facts, which justified the severity alike of his King and of his judges.

Montgomery's knees weakened under him, and he fell with a groan on the floor.

Makes a difference, doesn't it?" "You needn't think," says the Colonel a little defiantly, "that I've weakened on the main point just because I choose to give Nig a few cracker crumbs.

" Rhyming Joe detected, in an instant, the weakening on the lawyer's part, and increased his audacity accordingly.

It is notable in Great Britain, for example, that while there has been no perceptible diminution in our faith in democracy, there has been a growing criticism of "party" and "politicians," and a great weakening in the power and influence of representatives and representative institutions.

And all that time, as I did creep, there was a great sickness upon me, and it did seem that my mouth had weakened unto water; so that I could scarce hold my teeth tightly from unseemly clitterings.

At that time, twenty-one years before, her mind had ceased to act; it had become suddenly weakened without the possibility of recovery.

But you can have a regiment of good business qualities, and still fail without courage, because he's the colonel, and he won't stand for any weakening at a critical time.

With each one of these false ventures faith began to weaken amongst the mass of people until at last this, which can always save, and alone can save, ceased to have either the power or the will to force the organism to conform to the spirit.

MacManus now showed more serious signs of weakening than any of the rest.

Whoever has felt the desire, not to fill up his mind, but to strengthen it, to develop his faculties and aptitudes, and generally, to enlarge his powers, will have found that there is nothing so weakening as intercourse with a so-called littérateur, on a matter of knowledge on which he has not thought at all, though he knows a thousand little facts appertaining to its history and literature.

"The Constitution, as you know, was constructed with the object of weakening beforehand the power which you were about to confide to me.

She weakened beneath a burden too heavy for a mind so long accustomed to the facile pleasures of youth.

He wurn't afeared of no Injin, he said; sartainly not of one what had been weakened down to half the strength.

The power of the monarchy had been weakening during the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, partly owing to the dissipation of national resources by royal extravagance, partly owing to other causes.

The Nelson is broken, or weakened into uselessness.

"That was fulish in me," he said, "to weaken like that; but I'm no' used to that white damp.

When it appears fairly certain, even in the case of a moist corn, that pus does not exist, then paring is to be discountenanced, for the reason that it only tends to weakening of the parts and to assist largely in the corn's recurrence.