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  • If the government starts coming in, you're going to get weakkneed, crybaby entrepreneurs.

    Don't Bury The Airlines 2008

  • She was sweating and trembling by the time she made contact; weakkneed with the effort, as if she had run up a second cliff trail as long as the one they had just traversed.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • She was sweating and trembling by the time she made contact; weakkneed with the effort, as if she had run up a second cliff trail as long as the one they had just traversed.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • Though sympathetic to the cause, I had always been regarded as a weakkneed sister by the real workers.

    An Autobiography Catherine Helen Spence 1867

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