1 The touch of her hand, the moving softness of her look, thrilled a vulnerable fibre in Rosedale.
2 He was quick to see vulnerable places in them all.
3 They say the alligator, the rhinoceros, though enclosed in bullet-proof mail, have each a spot where they are vulnerable; and fierce, reckless, unbelieving reprobates, have commonly this point in superstitious dread.
4 All vulnerable things must perish under the rolling and running of iron.
5 In her womb and bowels she was flowing and alive now and vulnerable, and helpless in adoration of him as the most naive woman.
6 If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles 7 Well, you too have power over me, and may injure me: yet I dare not show you where I am vulnerable, lest, faithful and friendly as you are, you should transfix me at once.
8 In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
9 They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this revolution in its royalty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 10 Poor thing, she too had some of the vulnerability of the wild hyacinths, she wasn't all tough rubber-goods and platinum, like the modern girl.