weak-kneedin a sentence
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"Who is it?" said Madam Hooch, who had sunk, weak-kneed, into a chair.
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weak-kneed = shaky
- Who's this weak-kneed coward you brought to my place, Brenda?† (source)
- In the corridor a few weak-kneed, pasty-faced students were making their way to and from the bathrooms, and a group of silent Helpers worked double-duty to keep the floors mopped.† (source)
- I felt unaccountably weak-kneed and relieved.† (source)
- Nick criticized DMSC on his blog, and an Indian responded: It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly feminist, progressive thinkers like you often get weak-kneed at the prospect of women actually owning decisions about sex and work.... It is highly unsavory of you to exploit the difficult stories of sex workers as an argument against sex work as a profession at a time when sex workers are finally making some headway in creating safety for themselves.† (source)
- Dizzy and kinda weak-kneed?† (source)
- At Staatsburg I heard many stories about doojee, which was one of the ninety-nine names of heroin, but I didn't tell them my own weak-kneed story, about how I was scared of needles and drugs.† (source)
- Marvin growled at me to get on with it and not be a weak-kneed wimp.† (source)
- She swallowed and headed, weak-kneed, for the trees just beyond the quarry.† (source)
- Granpa was a little weak-kneed, and held Granma close, helping him to walk, I reckined.† (source)
- By the time Joe left the bank, five minutes past closing time, the last customer to depart, he was weak-kneed with apprehension.† (source)
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- The fourth afternoon Red came out of the cabin, pale, weak-kneed and weaving.† (source)
- I made an odd chirping sound in the back of my throat and moved in a sort of weak-kneed graceless lurch toward the window.† (source)
- The Prime Minister sank, weak-kneed, into the nearest chair.† (source)
- He hurried forwards to help Aunt Petunia negotiate a weak-kneed Dudley over the threshold while avoiding stepping in the pool of sick.† (source)
- The whole company was so weak-kneed that the lines were merely spoken, and nothing more.† (source)
- Beauty Smith was known far and wide as the weakest of weak-kneed and snivelling cowards.† (source)
- One glance at her, and both Hurstwood and Drouet saw plainly that she also was weak-kneed.† (source)
- Winks was the master of the upper third, a weak-kneed man with drooping eye-lids, He was too tall for his strength, and his movements were slow and languid.† (source)
- But he had never got on well with old Parry, that querulous, weak-kneed old man, Clarissa's father, Justin Parry.† (source)
- This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with his head thrown back and his legs outstretched, was staring at Murillo's beautiful moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture.† (source)
- It is nothing, a woman's shot, or a silly little boy s. A weak-kneed half-wits arrow has no point!† (source)
- I was weak-kneed at the thought, and sat down on the stool lather abruptly.† (source)
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