"Nothing good, as you will see; for having set out, complaining still of
weakness of the legs, he met a wild boar, which made head against him; he missed him with his arquebuse, and was ripped up by the beast and died immediately."
They are kept together by the peculiarity of their topographical position; by their individual
weakness and insignificancy; by the fear of powerful neighbors, to one of which they were formerly subject; by the few sources of contention among a people of such simple and homogeneous manners; by their joint interest in their dependent possessions; by the mutual aid they stand in need of, for suppressing insurrections and rebellions, an aid expressly stipulated and often required and afforded; and by the necessity of some regular and permanent provision for accomodating disputes among the cantons.
"No violence; violence is the proof of
weakness. In the first place, I have never succeeded by that means.
Unconsciously yielding to the
weakness of Anna--who had surrendered herself up to him utterly, and simply looked to him to decide her fate, ready to submit to anything--he had long ceased to think that their tie might end as he had thought then.
In our day we have progressed to a point where such sentiments mark
weakness and atavism.
A wet day was the expression of irremediable grief at her
weakness in the mind of some vague ethical being whom she could not class definitely as the God of her childhood, and could not comprehend as any other.
That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of
weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure -- if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.
As well as to
weakness and exhaustion, does he appeal to too much strength, to superabundant vitality, to the ennui of idleness.
He was tormented by the consciousness of his own
weakness. The few glasses of wine he had drunk and the conversation with this good-natured man had destroyed the mood of concentrated gloom in which he had spent the last few days and which was essential for the execution of his design.
In neither his father nor his mother was there any
weakness, nor in the generations before them.
She knew that in me, sorrow could not be
weakness, but must be strength.
His words, spirited as they were in meaning, contrasted sadly with the
weakness of the voice in which they were uttered.