heel of Achilles
Example Sentences
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Yet her devouring passion for this one man, inexplicable in its endurance and intensity, would, I felt sure even then, in the future as in the past, prove to be her heel of Achilles.
From Ayesha, the Return of She by Haggard, Henry Rider
If this is the heel of Cornwall, it, like the heel of Achilles, is vulnerable, and nearly severed by the slash!
From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
He had found the vulnerable heel of Achilles.
From The Lost Despatch by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
In their existing extent and position, they were simply the heel of Achilles, the vulnerable spot, through which secular foes might wound the Vicar of Christ.
From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
Our great author had indeed the heel of Achilles.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
