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Abdul Kader, the tailor who had attached himself to me, as a man ready-handed at all things, from mending a pair of pants, making a delicate entremets, or shooting an elephant, but whom the interior proved to be the weakliest of the weakly, unfit for anything except eating and drinking — almost succumbed on this march.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Makata swamp; Abdul Kader, the Hindi tailor and adventurer — the weakliest of mortal bodies — was ever ailing for lack of “force,” as he expressed it in

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

The strongest and healthiest men always going off to be killed in war, the weakliest only would be left at home to breed; and so an unhealthy population might spring up.

Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

In the civilized state, on the contrary, the weakliest and the silliest, protected by law, religion, and humanity, have chance likewise, and transmit to their offspring their own weakliness or silliness.

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

Doctor,” (in a low and confidential voice,) “that her leddyship’s tea is rather of the weakliest — water bewitched, I think — and Mrs. Jones, as they ca’ her, has cut the seedcake very thin?”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

(to the page who served the cake) -- "Now, dinna ye think, Doctor," (in a low and confidential voice,) "that her leddyship's tea is rather of the weakliest -- water bewitched, I think -- and Mrs. Jones, as they ca 'her, has cut the seedcake very thin?"

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801