heel of Achilles
Example Sentences
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At last he found the heel of Achilles.
From Swirling Waters by Rittenberg, Max
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
He had found the vulnerable heel of Achilles.
From The Lost Despatch by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
I chanced to discover that Simon's heel of Achilles was his fear of death, so my next scheme was a pious plot to frighten him into behaving like a human being and a good citizen.
From The Monk of Hambleton by Livingston, Armstrong
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
