"Weak-hearted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... prayer following the chapter, all his energy gathered—all his stern zeal woke: he was in deep earnest, wrestling with God, and resolved on a conquest. He supplicated strength for the weak-hearted; guidance for wanderers from the fold: a return, even at the eleventh hour, for those whom the temptations of the world and the flesh were luring from the narrow path. He asked, he urged, he claimed the boon of a brand snatched from the burning. Earnestness is ever deeply solemn: ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte
... what you are about, if you deal with Agellius," said Juba. "He's a sawney, but you must not drive him to bay. Don't threaten; keep to the other line; he's weak-hearted." ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman
... turn tail; run away &c (avoid) 623; show, the white feather. Adj. coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor- spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate. weak-minded; infirm of purpose &c 605; weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted^, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted; white- livered^, lily-livered, milk-livered^; milksop, smock-faced; unable to say 'boo' to a goose. dastard, dastardly; base, craven, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
