light-weights

It's fascinating to me what intellectual light-weights conservatives are.

Overspending and Obesity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Can you imagine what light-weights spiders would be?

AAAAARGH! URGH! AAARGH! Fathorse 2008

Dick the wrestler had grappled me, expecting to show off his art, of which indeed he had some small knowledge; but being quite of the light-weights, in a second he was flying after his companion

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

But Mailer is not content to leave her lifting the light-weights: she must also be captivating enough to keep our young narrator, who is many years her junior and lubricious to boot, in unconsummated thrall for the length of an Irish courtship almost entirely on the strength of her letter-writing ability, which, unlike her bewitching presence, is right out there on the page for us to be bewitched by, or not, ourselves.

Armageddon Now? Sheed, Wilfrid 1991

Keats also attended a prize-fight between two of the most skilful and enduring "light-weights," -- Randal and Turner.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

Both were light-weights, and their horses stood the journey better than their comrades; thus gradually they began to be in the leading troops while on the march.

The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages John Preston True

You get the best boxing in the light-weights, though the feathers spar quicker. '

The Pothunters 1928

The final of the light-weights had been decided, and

The Pothunters 1928

But light-weights is always quicker at the duck than what heavier men are.

The Pothunters 1928

He boxed for Cambridge in the light-weights the last year he was up, you know.

Jill the Reckless 1928