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  • Weak knees, arthritic knuckles, varicose veins, infirmities, indignities — they aren't ours, we never wanted or claimed them.†   (source)
  • Other new arrivals—the old, infirm, no skills identified—are walking dead.†   (source)
  • They go for zebras, gnus and water buffaloes, and not only the old or the infirm in a herd—full-grown members too.†   (source)
  • They always explained in school about how uglies who didn't have the operations eventually became infirm.†   (source)
  • Soon, Walter needed to be moved into the sort of facility that provided care for the elderly and infirm.†   (source)
  • Those whom the Nazis judged healthy and capable of work were sent to the right; those they judged to be infirm or weak were sent to the left.†   (source)
  • The tallish boy, the notorious cemetery vandal, sprawled his legs into the center aisle, indifferently creating a hazard for the elderly, the infirm, and the unwary.†   (source)
  • One of them was so old and infirm that he leaned heavily on a stick.†   (source)
  • They were both inside, Mr. Gilbert now infirm.†   (source)
  • But he contracted a tuberculosis of the spine when he was about six, when his parents were up in Aswan —the nanny didn't recognize how serious it was, he was taken to the hospital too late—he was a very bright boy, so I understand, personable too, but old Mr. Blackwell wasn't a man tolerant of weakness or infirmity.†   (source)
  • But there is an element of machismo in the Sherpa culture that makes many men extremely reluctant to acknowledge physical infirmities.†   (source)
  • Then the muscles began to work, began to writhe under the skin, the mouth began to tremble infirmly, the Adam's apple began to rise and fall.†   (source)
  • I was starting a rotation in pediatrics at the time—good luck, since children don't tend to hold the crippled responsible for their infirmities, as grown-ups do.†   (source)
  • Spite of my infirmities which do drag me cruelly, I am not to be thought of as an unhappy old man.†   (source)
  • One glance at Betsie's pallid face and fragile form, and the matron waved her contemptuously back inside the barracks where the elderly and infirm spent the day sewing prison uniforms.†   (source)
  • The place was crowded, still quite cold, but the sight of nurses and volunteer workers made us feel the children were safe, and the presence of other stranded souls, young women with infants, old and infirm people, gave us a certain staunchness and will, a selfless bent that was pronounced enough to function as a common identity.†   (source)
  • The fact is, Father has become increasingly infirm.†   (source)
  • Now they are calling up the physically infirm to serve in the army, while you see healthy, fit young men working in Party offices and the police, far from the firing line.†   (source)
  • Humans often do this—in touching the infirm and sick, in serving the ones whose minds have left to wander, in relating to the poor, in loving the very old and the very young, or even in caring for the other who has assumed a position of power over them.†   (source)
  • "I want you to know I'm doing this because I have a soft spot for pretty boys, the mentally infirm, and people who owe me money.†   (source)
  • As the months slipped by and his infirmities mounted, Marley taught us mostly about life's uncompromising finiteness.†   (source)
  • Instead of ignoring her infirmity, pretending it was not there, he made it seem like something special and endearing.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be no explanation for my private infirmity, but being a product (is "victim" a better word?†   (source)
  • He took four courses in Paris, among them the last ever taught by the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, so infirm by then he had to be carried up onto the stage.†   (source)
  • It was not merely his body they had used, but something else; his infirmity had made him the receptacle of an anguish which he could scarcely believe was in the world.†   (source)
  • No doubt, he thought, this was some hero of the warren, wounded in a great fight and now infirm, whose past services merited an honorable escort when he went out.†   (source)
  • -but I do know one thing: our children, our mothers, and our infirm must be protected from danger.†   (source)
  • Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.†   (source)
  • Stroke victims who have lost the ability to speak, for example, are virtuosos, because their infirmity has forced them to become far more sensitive to the information written on people's faces.†   (source)
  • Wheezing his way back up to the village, he felt as infirm as the elderly men who sat for hours at a time under Korphe's apricot trees, smoking from hookahs and eating apricot kernels.†   (source)
  • In the mornings, it was heartrending to see her, and he feared for her: she looked sad and infirm.†   (source)
  • The victim was vulnerable due to old age, youth, infirmity.†   (source)
  • Overworked and underpaid doctors and nurses scurried amidst the infirm, trying to do the best they could under minimal circumstances.†   (source)
  • "You've come to laugh at me in my infirmity, demon boy?" said Ataba, looking up at him.†   (source)
  • He wrote of the "lust after plunder" among the men, of regimental surgeons taking bribes to certify sickness or infirmities that would qualify for discharges.†   (source)
  • "Let's get out of here!" cried Conklin, annoyed by both Jason's attention and his own infirmity.†   (source)
  • Though Arys had been shocked to see how aged and infirm the Dornish prince appeared, he did not doubt the prince's word.†   (source)
  • Old Lem always took the "nigi— tive" and Loomis the "infirmity."†   (source)
  • I was so completely wrapped up in fixing myself, fixing my weak knee, that I began to discover all sorts of other infirmities, and potential ones.†   (source)
  • Apart from that, she talked nonstop, something about hairdressers at mineral spas, and how after the war she was either going to work for one, marry one, be one, or all three, because after the war mineral spas would be crowded with the wounded and the infirm-and their wives.†   (source)
  • Harriet was, however, neither old nor infirm.†   (source)
  • They show the infirmities and depravities of the human character.†   (source)
  • And in one of the rooms, bandaged and infirm, was Saladin.†   (source)
  • Economy of effort seemed to be a guiding principle with the wolves — and an eminently sensible one too, for the testing process often had to be continued for many hours before the wolves encountered a caribou sufficiently infirm to be captured.†   (source)
  • "You must believe me," Sophie said, aware of the sob in the back of her throat, and feeling a hopeless infirm lassitude, legs heavy and cold.†   (source)
  • The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar,' " "Get on with it," Adam said irritably.†   (source)
  • Do not make a hobby of personal infirmities.†   (source)
  • Your frown may claim the aged and the infirm.†   (source)
  • All these acts of contrition give too much importance to various infirmities of the flesh and to whether it is fat or famished-it's repulsive.†   (source)
  • Two-thirds of a long life have passed, and I have done nothing to distinguish it by usefulness to my country and to mankind…… Passions, indolence, weakness and infirmities have sometimes made me swerve from my better knowledge of right and almost constantly paralyzed my efforts of good.†   (source)
  • Poor, miserable man! what right had infirmity like his to burden itself with crime?   (source)
  • "Madam, I know not of what you speak," answered Hester Prynne, feeling Mistress Hibbins to be of infirm mind; yet strangely startled and awe-stricken by the confidence with which she affirmed a personal connexion between so many persons (herself among them) and the Evil One.   (source)
    infirm = weak (or ill)
  • In the way of furniture, there is a stove with a voluminous funnel; an old pine desk with a three-legged stool beside it; two or three wooden-bottom chairs, exceedingly decrepit and infirm; and—not to forget the library—on some shelves, a score or two of volumes of the Acts of Congress, and a bulky Digest of the Revenue laws.   (source)
    infirm = weak
  • Though by no means less liable than their fellow-men to age and infirmity, they had evidently some talisman or other that kept death at bay.   (source)
    infirmity = weakness (from age or illness)
  • In Arthur Dimmesdale, thought and imagination were so active, and sensibility so intense, that the bodily infirmity would be likely to have its groundwork there.   (source)
    infirmity = weakness
  • The aged members of his flock, beholding Mr. Dimmesdale's frame so feeble, while they were themselves so rugged in their infirmity, believed that he would go heavenward before them, and enjoined it upon their children that their old bones should be buried close to their young pastor's holy grave.   (source)
    infirmity = old age
  • The brave soldier had already numbered, nearly or quite, his three-score years and ten, and was pursuing the remainder of his earthly march, burdened with infirmities which even the martial music of his own spirit-stirring recollections could do little towards lightening.   (source)
    infirmities = weaknesses (from age or illness)
  • But I could imagine, even then, that, under some excitement which should go deeply into his consciousness—roused by a trumpet's peal, loud enough to awaken all of his energies that were not dead, but only slumbering—he was yet capable of flinging off his infirmities like a sick man's gown, dropping the staff of age to seize a battle-sword, and starting up once more a warrior.   (source)
  • Had it been otherwise—had an active politician been put into this influential post, to assume the easy task of making head against a Whig Collector, whose infirmities withheld him from the personal administration of his office—hardly a man of the old corps would have drawn the breath of official life within a month after the exterminating angel had come up the Custom-House steps.   (source)
  • With his florid cheek, his compact figure smartly arrayed in a bright-buttoned blue coat, his brisk and vigorous step, and his hale and hearty aspect, altogether he seemed—not young, indeed—but a kind of new contrivance of Mother Nature in the shape of man, whom age and infirmity had no business to touch.   (source)
    infirmity = weakness (from age or illness)
  • With the customary infirmity of temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears by the fierceness of her beak and eye, and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens careful of their safety against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings.   (source)
    infirmity = weakness
  • She doubted not that the continual presence of Roger Chillingworth—the secret poison of his malignity, infecting all the air about him—and his authorised interference, as a physician, with the minister's physical and spiritual infirmities—that these bad opportunities had been turned to a cruel purpose.   (source)
    infirmities = weaknesses
  • Into this festal season of the year—as it already was, and continued to be during the greater part of two centuries—the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.   (source)
    infirmity = weakness
  • All I could see was this long dark tunnel closing in, ending in infirmity, old age, and death.†   (source)
  • It was jarring to see him sitting in a hospital gown among people so compromised and infirm.†   (source)
  • They were in their early sixties, quite old by Burundian standards, but neither seemed infirm.†   (source)
  • The crippled and infirm, and some green boys still in training.†   (source)
  • I shall resent my husband, so very much, if he takes my infirmity as opportunity.†   (source)
  • His dad had infirmities still waiting for a name.†   (source)
  • I will even take your wounded and infirm.†   (source)
  • Yet I fear that instructing you is futile so long as your infirmity persists.†   (source)
  • Still, he looked vaguely infirm, as though he were recovering from a recent injury.†   (source)
  • I knew he was unsteady, but now I was quite certain his mind had descended on a most infirm path.†   (source)
  • My legs felt unbearably heavy, and infirm.†   (source)
  • There is the germ of infirmity in you, which infects everything you touch or attempt.†   (source)
  • She saw very old, infirm people with their mouths agape; although they were, at best, only partially alert, they gave their stuporous attention to images that my grandmother described as "too surpassing in banality to recall."†   (source)
  • When I saw him stood upright before me, I could not be sure to what extent he was hunched over due to infirmity and what extent due to the habit of accommodating the steeply sloped ceilings of the room.†   (source)
  • Negotiating the puzzling, infirm terrain demanded unceasing concentration, an all-butimpossible feat in my punch-drunk state.†   (source)
  • But if I wanted a crack at the summit, I knew that I had no choice but to ignore my infirmities and climb.†   (source)
  • Present nearly every day, notwithstanding his years and infirmities, was Benjamin Franklin, who, at age seventy, was popularly perceived to be the oldest, wisest head in the Congress, which he was, and the most influential, which he was not.†   (source)
  • Unlike their predecessors, the cripples wore robes of dark leather, tailored to match their individual infirmities.†   (source)
  • The letter that Lord Wyman Manderly had sent back from White Harbor had spoken of his age and infirmity, and little more.†   (source)
  • This was what his small army of infirm old men understood; he gave a purpose to the ends of their lives.†   (source)
  • Pretty things like that serving wench of Lady Tanda's could be in for a lively night, but don't imagine the old and the infirm and the ugly will be spared.†   (source)
  • His feeling was much like the disproportionate satisfaction that old people can find, regardless of their losses, infirmities, and disappointments, in small things, like sitting under the trees and watching the birds flit from branch to branch, or drinking tea from a china cup with a gold rim.†   (source)
  • Although I had already been disabused of the truth of a good many scientifically established beliefs about wolves by my own recent experiences, I could hardly believe that the all-powerful and intelligent wolf would limit his predation on the caribou herds to culling the sick and the infirm when he could, presumably, take his choice of the fattest and most succulent individuals.†   (source)
  • She kept contact with nieces and nephews, inquired regularly about the welfare of her pensioners: Parson Wibird, who had grown old and infirm, and her aged former servantPhoebe, to whom she sent money and made sure she had sufficient firewood and whatever other necessities were wanting.†   (source)
  • Manhood Restored was my favorite: Nerve Seeds guaranteed to cure all nervous diseases such as Weak Memory, Loss of Brain Power, Headaches, Wakefulness, Lost Manhood, Nightly Emissions, nervousness, all drain and loss of power in generative organs of either sex caused by over-exertion, youthful errors, excessive use of tobacco, opium or stimulants which lead to infirmity, consumption or Insanity.†   (source)
  • Khromoi's assistant (Khromoi, the mess orderly, had an assistant whom he fed) went off to summon Barracks 6 to breakfast This was the building occupied by the infirm, who did not leave the zone.†   (source)
  • On the large circular balcony of the villa nearest the main building and the attached glass-enclosed dining room, an elderly infirm woman sat in a wheelchair sipping a glass of Château Carbonnieux '78 while drinking in the splendors of sundown.†   (source)
  • The currents were clashing against one another, pounding the manmade tube into a kind of submission, warning the microscopic pretenders that they were no match for the vast infirmities of nature.†   (source)
  • Again any money from the book was to go to Harriet, who now wanted to found a home for the aged and infirm.†   (source)
  • The stress of an infirm wife.†   (source)
  • Those too old or young to be of use had been cast into the streets, along with the infirm and the crippled.†   (source)
  • You can't expect her and others who are sick and infirm to sit under the blazing sun for weeks on end.†   (source)
  • On January 9th The Boston Commonwealth, in announcing its publication, said that the proceeds from the sale of the biography were to go to Harriet, "she now being very old and infirm."†   (source)
  • I fear this reflects on me poorly when viewed in the written word, but one must be reminded of my own infirmity.†   (source)
  • "Her health, though yet very infirm, is better than we could have expected," John Quincy said of Louisa Catherine in a letter to his father, "and your grandson is as hearty as any sailor of his age that ever crossed the ocean."†   (source)
  • Jon had sent ten of the Mole's Town wildlings to each of them: green boys, old men, some wounded and infirm, but all capable of doing work of one sort or another.†   (source)
  • As if the torture of my loss is not enough, my infirmity now frees my husband for the first time in months to roam this city alone in search of his favorite flower-and don't think I don't know it.†   (source)
  • Roran, Jeod, and Uthar met in a small fore cabin-since the captain's stateroom was given over to the infirm-where Uthar unrolled sea charts on the table and tapped a point above Beirland.†   (source)
  • I have suffered much infirmity these several years, nearly always cautious in my walking about not to lose balance and fall to the floor like some invalid.†   (source)
  • Compounding the issue was the fact that some families in Carvahall did not have enough steeds for both provisions and the young, old, and infirm who would be unable to keep pace on foot.†   (source)
  • He cursed himself for being so arrogant with Oromis, so oblivious to his infirmities, and for not placing more confidence in the elf's judgment.†   (source)
  • Sukeena, who has served me as both nursemaid and witch doctor, as sister and friend, has known the truth all along, that my fevers and infirmity resulted neither from the water nor from the jungle insects that do infest this godless place.†   (source)
  • Several weeks have passed since my last entry, weeks given to one delay after another brought on by John's business affairs (or so I'm told), my own infirmity (a woman's monthly "ritual of roses" as my mother refers to it) and John's apparent inability to arrange a convenient time for the two of us to visit the construction site.†   (source)
  • It was a cunning move on the part of Douglas Posey, for excepting the chambermaids who clean and service the linens, and the butlers who attend our fireplaces and chimneys, these rooms and hallways go unoccupied-except when I am infirmed, of course, more often than not these days, but as it happens, not on this day when I felt quite well.†   (source)
  • She thought how infirm she must be not to have been able to make him know it; and she raised her eyes to his, and she said the only thing she could say: "I wish to God I may die if I don't love you.†   (source)
  • Henry Clay, who should have known, said compromise was the cement that held the Union together:All legislation …. is founded upon the principle of mutual concession…… Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, "I never will compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.†   (source)
  • But it was during this brief exchange that she had a desperate flash of intuition, sensing that the interruption with its jejune domestic flavor could only blot out forever the magic moment into which the Commandant, like some soul-eaten Tristan, had had the infirmity to allow himself to be lured.†   (source)
  • Because of extreme youth, extreme age, infirmity, the ravages of the journey or the aftereffects of previous sickness, relatively few of the Jews arriving at Auschwitz from any country were deemed able-bodied enough to work; at one point Hoss reported to Eichmann that the average of those selected to survive for a time was between twenty-five and thirty percent.†   (source)
  • That no person aged and infirm shall want or beg for bread.†   (source)
  • His pall, his draperies, his infirmities fell from him.†   (source)
  • She repeated in a quavering treble, head rocking infirmly from side to side.†   (source)
  • His age, the suggestion of infirmity, had lifted from him.†   (source)
  • Now, through my own infirmity I recover what he was to me: my opposite.†   (source)
  • As for Thea, enfolded in the rebozo, she stared at me--hard, begging, firm and infirm, all together.†   (source)
  • I couldn't decide if they were greeting me and trying to say something, or if it was due to some infirmity of age.†   (source)
  • …very curious fact it seemed, and my mind wandered to picture the lives of men who spend their time in writing books about women; whether they were old or young, married or unmarried, red-nosed or hump-backed—anyhow, it was flattering, vaguely, to feel oneself the object of such attention provided that it was not entirely bestowed by the crippled and the infirm—so I pondered until all such frivolous thoughts were ended by an avalanche of books sliding down on to the desk in front of me.†   (source)
  • And by instinct I knew that what would fetch her--as infirm, loaded with dough, and beaten a long way out of known channels by the banked spoon-oars of special silver as she was--was the charm of ordinary health.†   (source)
  • I am so infirm that I cannot move about much without help, and finding it empty in my rooms might have caused suspicion.†   (source)
  • This child of the slave, who was not more than sixteen, he now saw with fresh lust, for as he grew old and infirm and heavy with flesh he seemed to desire more and more women who were slight and young, even to childhood, so that there was no slaking his lust.†   (source)
  • At the present time, he lived with his sister and his aged mother, whose ponderous infirmity of limb had not impaired her appetite, in a South Carolina town.†   (source)
  • You could plead infirmity and hire the strongest man you knew to fight for you, and the Queen would, of course, get the strongest man she knew to fight for her.†   (source)
  • My own infirmities oppress me.†   (source)
  • Well, there was at least a hint of what in the note that Stiva sent, pretty calmly saying that he and his brother didn't feel a housekeeper was the solution and that they were making arrangements for their mother to live in the Nelson Home for the Aged and Infirm, and would consider it a great service if we would move her there.†   (source)
  • And then old snowbirds and white hound-looking faces, guys with Wobbly cards from an earlier time, old Bohunk women with letters explaining what was wanted, and all varieties of assaulted kissers, infirmity, drunkenness, dazedness, innocence, limping, crawling, insanity, prejudice, and from downright leprosy the whole way again to the most vigorous straight-backed beauty.†   (source)
  • He had never been quite certain whether this action indicated courage or infirmity of purpose.†   (source)
  • Here he called upon his great-aunt, whose infirmities daily increased.†   (source)
  • The moment he sat down, I noticed the nervous infirmity of which Mrs. Harling had told me.†   (source)
  • And to bear with my infirmities, Jane: to overlook my deficiencies.†   (source)
  • His infirm and sick old father was left without anyone to help him.†   (source)
  • Lydgate thought that there was a pitiable infirmity of will in Mr. Farebrother.†   (source)
  • However, having an infirmity—for I am hard of hearing, sir—†   (source)
  • There was about it an evidence of great age and infirmity.†   (source)
  • 'Women talk,' said the lama at last, 'but that is a woman's infirmity.†   (source)
  • I wish that the dread of infirmities was not so strong in me!†   (source)
  • Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.†   (source)
  • The shallow honesty, as well as the besetting infirmity of Weucha, have already been exhibited.†   (source)
  • "He's old and infirm—he doesn't leave his chair."†   (source)
  • But you are to make some allowances for the infirmities and habits of a soldier.†   (source)
  • By Jove, O'Hara, do you know, he is afflicted with infirmity of fits.†   (source)
  • He is scouting on the Mingo trail, where I ought to have been too, but for a great human infirmity.†   (source)
  • I am infirm; that is why I require an assistant.†   (source)
  • I am your father, not your infirm uncle!'†   (source)
  • Neither duty nor infirmity could keep youth or age from such exhibitions.†   (source)
  • Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.†   (source)
  • Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow!†   (source)
  • He limped more out of anxiety than from infirmity.†   (source)
  • That may be; but in this superiority there is some infirmity.†   (source)
  • It must not surmise or provide for infirmity.†   (source)
  • The musical notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.†   (source)
  • Yet that is the infirmity of the seneschals, who do not know their sovereign, when he appears.†   (source)
  • The solitary traveller is soon beyond the wood; and there, coming to the door with shaded eyes, possibly to look for his return, with hands raised, with white apron blowing, is an elderly woman who seems (so powerful is this infirmity) to seek, over a desert, a lost son; to search for a rider destroyed; to be the figure of the mother whose sons have been killed in the battles of the world.†   (source)
  • But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact.†   (source)
  • The man was elderly and infirm.†   (source)
  • God be thanked, his infirmity is spent!†   (source)
  • But Billy broke in, and in his resentful eagerness to deliver himself his vocal infirmity somewhat intruded: "D—D-Damme, I don't know what you are d-d-driving at, or what you mean, but you had better g-g-go where you belong!"†   (source)
  • She ran downstairs and hurried out to meet him, to hide his infirmity from the eyes of her household.†   (source)
  • 'Most learned judge!' said he, 'picture this unhappy man, crippled by age and infirmities, who gains his living by honourable toil—picture him, I repeat, robbed of his all, of his last mouthful; remember, I entreat you, the words of that learned legislator, "Let mercy and justice alike rule the courts of law."†   (source)
  • It comes from an era of superstitious contrition, when the idea of humanity was demeaned and distorted into a caricature, a fearful era, when harmony and health were considered suspicious and devilish, whereas infirmity in those days was as good as a passport to heaven.†   (source)
  • Above a mantle of black cloth she wore a little white coif that seemed almost to attach her to some Order, and an infirmity of the skin had stained part of her cheeks and her crooked nose the bright red colour of balsam.†   (source)
  • She "went through" the linen and blankets in the precise spirit of the penitent exploring the inner folds of conscience; she sought for moths as the stricken soul seeks for lurking infirmities.†   (source)
  • About five ft. seven in. in height; strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted glasses, slight infirmity of speech.†   (source)
  • Is he infirm?†   (source)
  • When the waiting gentlemen had retired, Lord St. John said— "His majesty commandeth, that for due and weighty reasons of state, the prince's grace shall hide his infirmity in all ways that be within his power, till it be passed and he be as he was before.†   (source)
  • I tramped through the puddles and under the showery trees, mourning for Marguerite Gauthier as if she had died only yesterday, sighing with the spirit of 1840, which had sighed so much, and which had reached me only that night, across long years and several languages, through the person of an infirm old actress.†   (source)
  • "Gilbert's brother, Charles the Stammerer, was a pious prince, but, having early in life lost his father, Pepin the Mad, who died as a result of his mental infirmity, he wielded the supreme power with all the arrogance of a man who has not been subjected to discipline in his youth, so much so that, whenever he saw a man in a town whose face he did not remember, he would massacre the whole place, to the last inhabitant.†   (source)
  • The thing puzzled me, and I was led to make a further remark, which puzzled me still more: that aged and infirm among this people there were none.†   (source)
  • Well, prince, to do you justice, you certainly know how to make the most of your—let us call it infirmity, for the sake of politeness; you have set about offering your money and friendship in such a way that no self-respecting man could possibly accept them.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, if Herr Settembrini had had a Saint Elizabeth at his side back then, when the infirmities of his body had prevented him from attending the convention for progress in Barcelona, why then … They all laughed, and before the humanist could fly off the handle, Hans Castorp quickly told about a thrashing he had once received—-a punishment still administered sometimes in the lower grades of his high school, where there had been riding crops in every room; and although social…†   (source)
  • I have the germs of every human infirmity in me, I verily believe—that was why I saw it was so preposterous of me to think of being a curate.†   (source)
  • But experience has proved how we misjudged ourselves, and overrated our infirmities; and if you are beginning to respect rites and ceremonies, as you seem to be, I wonder you don't say it shall be carried out instantly?†   (source)
  • The satisfaction that old age and infirmity prevent me from offering you by means of weapons, I now offer you in this form; I offer it in the form of a bond of brotherhood, of the sort that is usually established against a third party, against the world, against someone else, but which we shall establish in our feelings for someone.†   (source)
  • From this change of men must proceed a change of opinions and of measures, which forfeits the respect and confidence of other nations, poisons the blessings of liberty itself, and diminishes the attachment and reverence of the people toward a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity.†   (source)
  • "And yet, Pathfinder," said Mabel, looking so prettily and sweetly even while she played with the guide's infirmity, that he forgave her in his heart, "you, who speak so reverently of the power of the Deity, appear to doubt that a fish can fly."†   (source)
  • Woman's prescriptive infirmity had stalked into the sunlight, which had clothed it in the freshness of an originality.†   (source)
  • When, in his walk through the garden, he came to the magnificent plant that hung its purple gems beside the marble fountain, he placed a kind of mask over his mouth and nostrils, as if all this beauty did but conceal a deadlier malice; but, finding his task still too dangerous, he drew back, removed the mask, and called loudly, but in the infirm voice of a person affected with inward disease, "Beatrice!†   (source)
  • She murmured, however, even in her reception of me, that she was out of her own chamber because its aspect was unsuited to her infirmity; and with her stately look repelled the least suspicion of the truth.†   (source)
  • You know my infirmity.†   (source)
  • He explained everything through her old nervous illness, and reproaching himself with having taken her infirmities for faults, accused himself of egotism, and longed to go and take her in his arms.†   (source)
  • Gringoire flew thither, hoping to escape, by the swiftness of his legs, from the three infirm spectres who had clutched him.†   (source)
  • That was their moment of triumph, achieved, after long ages, over creatures of the same clay and the same spiritual infirmities, who had dared to assume the privileges due only to Heaven's better workmanship.†   (source)
  • …tradesman's manner of receiving the look, did not inspire confidence; he changed the leg on which he rested, as often as if he had fifty of those limbs, and were trying them all; he examined his finger-nails with a very questionable closeness of attention; and whenever Mr. Lorry's eye caught his, he was taken with that peculiar kind of short cough requiring the hollow of a hand before it, which is seldom, if ever, known to be an infirmity attendant on perfect openness of character.†   (source)
  • "Well, Mr. Macey," said poor Tookey, serious amidst the general laughter, "I undertook to partially fill up the office of parish-clerk by Mr. Crackenthorp's desire, whenever your infirmities should make you unfitting; and it's one of the rights thereof to sing in the choir—else why have you done the same yourself?"†   (source)
  • The most singular effect of their gayety was an impulse to mock the infirmity and decrepitude of which they had so lately been the victims.†   (source)
  • Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in the rear, swam a huge, humped old bull, which by his comparatively slow progress, as well as by the unusual yellowish incrustations overgrowing him, seemed afflicted with the jaundice, or some other infirmity.†   (source)
  • She had no colour, in common, nor was her simple mind apt to present images that caused her cheek to brighten, though she retained a modesty so innate that it almost raised her to the unsuspecting purity of a being superior to human infirmities.†   (source)
  • 'They that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of those that are weak, and not to please themselves.'†   (source)
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