Word: weaknesses
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...Sever, yesterday. The audience was not large. In fact, to judge from the undergraduates present, it would appear that Mr. Perry's lectures are as little popular as his instruction in themes. As a lecturer he is by no means good. His delivery was so poor, his voice so weak, that those in the back of the room would fain have had telephonic communication with the desk. As near as could be gathered his lecture was taken up with a review of Addison, the author's mode of criticism as shown in the "Spectator," an attempt to trace its effects...
Such a poor, weak, old dame...
What to a heart so weak as mine...
...lungs were as strong as her grammar was weak...
...waves; for a good stiff breeze was blowing from the northeast. Bertha looked back several times and waved her handkerchief at me. I took off my hat and swung it in response; but I saw her face only through my tears. You see that dream had made me weak and nervous. Farther and farther away sped the yacht, till the sail was a dim white patch on the horizon...