All 5 Uses of
infirm
in
Bleak House
- I had another uneasiness, in the application of the painful story to the poor half-witted creature who had brought us there; but, to my surprise, she seemed perfectly unconscious of that and only led the way upstairs again, informing us with the toleration of a superior creature for the infirmities of a common mortal that her landlord was "a little M, you know!"†
Chpt 4-6
- His good friend Jarndyce and some other of his good friends then helped him, in quicker or slower succession, to several openings in life, but to no purpose, for he must confess to two of the oldest infirmities in the world: one was that he had no idea of time, the other that he had no idea of money.†
Chpt 4-6
- For they are the public chroniclers of such inquiries by the line; and he is not superior to the universal human infirmity, but hopes to read in print what "Mooney, the active and intelligent beadle of the district," said and did and even aspires to see the name of Mooney as familiarly and patronizingly mentioned as the name of the hangman is, according to the latest examples.†
Chpt 10-12
- You know my infirmity.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- He fell down, this morning, a handsome stately gentleman, somewhat infirm, but of a fine presence, and with a well-filled face.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(infirm) weak from old age or disease