heel of Achilles
Example Sentences
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I bethink me, the rabbi said there was one peril against which the elixir could not guard me—one vulnerable point, by which, like the heel of Achilles, death might reach me!
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
It was the heel of Achilles a while back, and now it is the stone of Sisyphus!
From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia
You said then that they were man's heel of Achilles.
From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora
If this is the heel of Cornwall, it, like the heel of Achilles, is vulnerable, and nearly severed by the slash!
From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
Hanover, like the heel of Achilles, was the vulnerable part for which England was always trembling.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis
