weakness of the flesh
Example Sentences
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"It used to be called 'Monk's disease,' coming from the effort to measure up to a great task against the weakness of the flesh," Quinn said.
From Time Magazine Archive
Were it not for the weakness of the flesh, justice would have sufficed.
From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler
But after she ceased to speak the radiance went, and she fainted before him in her weakness of the flesh.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
All to-day I have been tortured like a soul that beholds its salvation lost by a moment's weakness of the flesh.
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
It lasted but a second, however, when the noble will overcame the weakness of the flesh and enabled the speaker to continue his dying instructions.
From The Baron's Sons by M?r J?kai
