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His big and dropsical head, disproportionate to his emaciated body, leans against his mother's shoulder, his eyes blinking weakly.
However, close analysis suggests sizeable minorities of students are performing weakly in both reading and maths.
When he let go, Carrie smiled weakly, as the force of the hug had taken a lot out of her, and opened her sketchbook to work on a drawing.
She weakly grasped the lapels on his jacket and sobbed quietly into his chest.
She stood up weakly, testing out her strength to find that she hardly had any left.
His other arm held her remaining hand to the wall also, and she writhed, kicking weakly at him.
Lying among bandages and tubes, she moaned weakly, rubbing her forehead with her one free hand and trying to pull the tubes away from her nose.
This effect, however, is thought to be only weakly dependent on cholesterol concentration.
Ibis looked at her companion, completely stunned, and leaned against a building wall weakly.
Candice gathered all of her strength and ducked under his arms and weakly tried to open the door.
Democrats have weakly supported a change in how we deal with the energy issue, but some Republicans are now beginning to pick up on the issue.
I look at Bren and she smiles weakly before taking a seat next to the wall.
The purpose of an infant incubator is to secure and improve the chances of survival of a premature or weakly infant.
Equivocal or weakly reactive immunohistochemical stains may require further testing to make the diagnosis of mesothelioma.
His hands rose weakly, pushed at Leonardo's shoulders, and fell, only to reattempt it again seconds later.
Halfway between anger and pain, his yell begins as a firm shout but falls weakly to the floor.
As his muzzle touched the water, his tongue lapped at it, his ears pricked up, and his eyes opened weakly.
For example, the weakly zygomorphic flower is scarlet, shows diurnal anthesis and has a backwardly curved labellum.
The annulation is weakly developed along the surface opposite to the attached portion.
The supraoccipital is a weakly rhomboidal element, which meets the parietal in its deep posterior embayment as described above.
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She sobbed weakly in his arms, but her own arm was still tight about his neck.
It's Emil bein' thin an' weakly an' bloodless, I reckon, that attracts him.
Although the muon does not experience nuclear forces, it can interact weakly with nuclei.
I shook his flipper weakly and tried the dodge of pretending to recognise him.
Toward the end of October, his asthenia had diminished enough to allow him to play the piano weakly in three octaves.
It would be better if they could be got rid of before quarter day, up to which she had weakly said they might remain.
A wheezing chuckle answered him, and a phosphor bulb glowed weakly, shedding some light on a filthy hall.
Out of the faded folds a small head, blanched and bewhiskered, reared itself weakly.
He unstuck the snag from his shirt, pushed his way out of the thicket, and sat down weakly on the grass.
When two years later the administration supported it weakly, the bi-partisan boss system killed it.
She struggled weakly to free herself, and his clasp only tightened jealously.
They have a mostly unornamented surface with weakly developed irregular relief in some places.
She wondered at the fierce purpose which underlaid this weakly body.
Should the army forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned.
If he weakly showed the least disposition to hear it, Captain Hopkins, in a loud sonorous voice, gave him every word of it.
But, with a final effort, as I sank weakly to my knees I hurled the nine thought waves at that awful thing before me.
Baynes turned weakly in the direction of the shore to see Malbihn drawn up upon his elbows levelling his rifle at him.
Doubtless sympathy eased her somewhat, but she was very low in thought and spirit, and wept silently and weakly for a long time.
The labial face is weakly convex with coarse longitudinal striations restricted to the crown foot.
Uncle Peter weakly waved the hand of finished discouragement.
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