weak (n.)

weak (v.)

Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,

The protest of the weak against the strong.

Christopher P Cranch (1813-1892): The Sorrowful World.

Weak and beggarly elements.

New Testament: Galatians iv. 9.

A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 108.

Fine by defect, and delicately weak.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 43.

Beauty stands

In the admiration only of weak minds

Led captive.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 220.

In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.

Sophocles (496-406 b c): oedipus Coloneus, 880.

Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,

The protest of the weak against the strong.

Christopher P Cranch (1813-1892): The Sorrowful World.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

New Testament: Matthew xxvi. 41.

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner,—honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Timon of Athens. Act i. Sc. 2.

To be weak is miserable,

Doing or suffering.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 157.

That if weak women went astray,

Their stars were more in fault than they.

Matthew Prior (1664-1721): Hans Carvel.