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There would have been no need to expose or put out of the way the weaklier children, for they would have died of themselves.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Two or three of the weaklier hoggets were dead, from want of air, and from pressure; but more than three-score were as lively as ever; though cramped and stiff for a little while.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

The rest he bullied, and none more than the Bengali, whose weaklier constitution spared him the hard manual work of the yard, but whose timidity invited aggression.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

- I feel weaklier every day; and "my soul is also sore vexed."

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

'May be sae,' returned she very coolly; 'but I ken-na where ye'll find ony weaker, for a weaklier-like cretur I never saw in a' my life. '

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

- I feel weaklier every day, and my soul also is sore vexed - Oh how long!

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

Two or three of the weaklier hoggets were dead, from want of air, and from pressure; but more than three-score were as lively as ever; though cramped and stiff for a little while.

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

There would have been no need to expose or put out of the way the weaklier children, for they would have died of themselves.

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

I say still, as I used, we have too much Property, Honour, etc., on our Hands: our outward Limbs go on lengthening while our central Heart beats weaklier: I say, as I used, we should give up something before it is forced from us.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Edward FitzGerald 1846

The warld is getting weaklier things to dwell in it, even since I mind mysel '. "

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907