heel of Achilles
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You said then that they were man's heel of Achilles.
From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles
Our great author had indeed the heel of Achilles.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
Hanover, like the heel of Achilles, was the vulnerable part for which England was always trembling.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman
Yet her devouring passion for this one man, inexplicable in its endurance and intensity, would, I felt sure even then, in the future as in the past, prove to be her heel of Achilles.
From Ayesha, the Return of She by Henry Rider Haggard
It was the heel of Achilles a while back, and now it is the stone of Sisyphus!
From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Julia Kavanagh
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