A man like Hoskins would choose a weak thing to be his foil.

There was no shame in me for being such a weak thing.

"It's not a weak thing you're doing now," he observed.

I think that was a terribly weak thing to say, don't you?

A puny and weak thing is he, by my own eyes.

But these weak things need not know my plans.

But then she added: 'I think all humans are poor, weak things.

And I don't mean the weak things that others mean by the word.

Ay me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!

Have we become so soft that even our words are weak things?