What is "weakly"

Usage examples of "weakly".

He ought, Asey told himself weakly, to be putting a stop to all of this nonsense.

They all turned and looked at him, and Vinaver moved her head weakly on the pillow, beckoning Ethoniel with a feeble wave.

His low, startled exclamation was distinctly audible in the comparative stillness, and the gun slid from his fingers as they relaxed weakly.

Silas Fennec stepped quickly through ways of seeing, leaving the corridor, rising through the boat, the man on whom he had spat shrieking weakly and clawing himself, and dying.

Throwing back the silk sheets, he rolled weakly to the edge of the bed, groggy and frightened.

When I saw the fight was over I hastened to help Gys, who staggered so weakly that he would have dropped his man a dozen times on the way had not the Germans held him up.

On May 23, 1951, a Tibetan delegation headed by Kalon Ngabo Ngawang Jigmestill the most important collaborator and the commander of the Tibetan troops in Kham who had weakly surrendered to the Chinesesigned a seventeen-point agreement which stripped the Tibetans of the right to independent foreign policy and defense decisions but otherwise left them their internal autonomy.

Staring weakly toward the door, Kelk saw Dale Jurling, covering him with a revolver.

Subsiding weakly after a series of dry heaves, Thomas Paine Kydd laid his head once more on the wet, hard boards.

Barelegged, a red blanket fastened about his throat with a big brass safety pin, a thermometer in one hand and a medicine bottle in the other, he tottered, crazily and weakly between Loge and Barnstable, chanting a vers libre poem in a shrill, insane voice.

Now, of course, Miss Amelia was a powerful blunderbuss of a person, more than six feet tall -- and Cousin Lymon a weakly little hunchback reaching only to her waist.

But the moment flees before Materia can get hold of it, a message telegraphed weakly over a sagging distance of time and space, every second word missing.

Benedict made that mewing sound again, shaking his head weakly, staring at the two slobbering animals ahead of him.

Hill saluted weakly, and Lee spurred the horse, moved back to the road, past the wagons, the sounds of the wounded, past rows of big guns, crews watching him move by, hats in the air.

The dignified ollamh protested weakly, patting his former pupil about the head and shoulders, while the other fil-idh acclaimed the choice with shouts and cheers.