In the household she sits enthroned, the weaker vessel, but the stronger power.
Nevertheless, in all disputes between states, though the strongest is nearly always mainly in the wrong, the weaker is often so in a minor degree; and I think we sometimes admit the possibility of our being in error, and you never do.
But of the two characters imagined, Jessy is weaker than Ellen, exactly in so far as something appears to her to be in nature which is not.
The weaker vessel is to be honoured, not because she is weak, but because, being weak, she acts her part so well.
He would remember her weaker nature, and her more delicate physical frame, her more acute nervous sensibility, her greater sensitiveness and greater trials, the peculiar troubles to which she is subject.
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel.
Numbed with cold, he felt himself growing weaker and he knew that the end could not be far off should the next attempt fail.
Moment by moment he felt himself growing weakerand less able to withstand the chill which was striking through to his very heart.
At last he was decided by the information that the king of Cashmere, notwithstanding his embassy, was marching to join Porus, with an army not muchweaker than his own, and was only 50 miles distant.
The younger portion of the weaker sex freely indulge in the pleasure of conversation.
A weaker man would have repudiated the two Americans, who, in fact, were not members of the Phalanx, and trusted that their crimes would not be charged against him.
Washington grew paler and paler, weaker and weaker while the lagging list progressed; and when it was finished, his head fell helplessly forward on his arms.
But so long as in the process of transition the weaker is fighting against the stronger, the dissolution continues.
Purgatives of a weaker sort are called salt and, having no bitterness, are rather agreeable.
The weakerthe power of the Duke, the less resistance to the enemy.
They are forced to plot with a weaker man--with you, Felix.
It does not follow that Héloïse was weaker than he because she could not live outside the world of sentiment, but rather loftier and nobler.
And this exalted love is most common among the female sex, since their passions are weaker and their sentiments are stronger than those of most men.
The service was very simple, no pomp, no ritualism; for it was characteristic of the leading men of the movement that they left these things to the weaker brethren.
But it is very hard to draw the line between conscientious repression, feeling itself bound to do what is possible to prevent mischief, and what those who are opposed, if they are the weaker party, of course call persecution.
They used their influence, such as it was (and it was not then what it was afterwards), to protect the weaker party.
He had stripped it of its weaknesses, its incumbrances, its falsehoods; and it did not seem the weaker for being presented in its real aspect and on its real grounds.
Women as being weaker and less accustomed to mix in society are naturally more superstitious and fearful of the machinations of spirits.
The weak and the strong are set in competition one with another, with the inevitable result that the weaker or less efficient work-people resort to such practices as working during the meal-hour, etc.
There is a constant pressure on the weaker to keep pace with the stronger, the immature or old with the worker in the full flower of strength.
Yet in the long run the apparently weaker elements of society are as vitally necessary as the stronger, and to ignore or silence their needs is to strike at the heart of life.
By the use of mechanical power, the need for muscular strength is diminished, and greater possibilities are opened up to the weakerclasses of workers.
It is evident that the German form of organisation is much better calculated to catch the weaker and less-skilled classes of workers than is the more aristocratic and old-fashioned craft Union of our own country.
But at last the battle was done, and the forces retired with weaker and weaker threatenings and grumblings, and peace resumed her sway.
But it was not so in Aubrey's time, for he picks out the Dorking men and women as weaker and paler than others.
Uncle Lazare became weaker and weaker amidst the touching silence of this peaceful sunset, entering by the open window.
In the flock God discerns the weaker sheep and the stronger rams and the goats--the clergy, class-leaders, etc.
All the roads to the coast here cross no end of small bridges--much weaker affairs than the railway bridges.
The good old woman was growingweaker every day; she rarely left her chair, where she dozed a great part of the time; so that it was very easy to conceal the truth from her.
They seized Dubourg by the shoulders; he struggled and fought to no purpose, being the weaker party.
It looks rather out of place surrounded by the weak and spindling interpretations of scenery and water which so readily find a place in the exhibition of the Academy, but it is none the weaker for that.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weaker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
