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She seemed very frail. [11]

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The man who, when drunk, beat his wife till the blood came, and committed plenty of cruel deeds, trembled, wept, and could even pray with fervent piety, when--which often happened--the frail little creature, shaken by convulsions, seemed at the point of death. [10]
He was constructing what seemed to be some kind of a frail mechanical toy; and was apparently very much interested in his work. [5]
Horapollo had foreseen, too, that the danger which threatened the Mukaukas' son would fan Paula's passions like a fresh breeze; and Joanna, frail, ailing Joanna! [10]
There were none to see the frail, perishable figure, as it glided from the fire and leaned pensively at the open casement; none but the stars, to look into the upturned face and read its history. [12]
By this time the sea was running inches high, and threatening every moment to engulf the frail bark. [5]
It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. [5]
She had heard the news from Frail Van Hout and the wives of other citizens. [10]
Her frail body, the dressmaker protested, was not able to undertake such a walk through the storm. [10]
I was sure that I could depend upon him: the more so that once frail of body he had developed into a strong, well-controlled man. [11]
Do not think that a robust organization is any warrant of long life, nor that a frail and slight bodily constitution necessarily means scanty length of days. [6]
There was that strange, distant look of agony in her eyes, that transfiguring look in the face; there was the figure somehow gone slimmer in these few hours; and there was a frail appearance which did not belong to her. [11]
Mrs. Clemens, in spite of her frail health, devoted much time to her dying friend, until by the time the end came she was herself in a precarious condition. [5]
Her body is so frail and her mind so excessively and constantly active that I am afraid one or the other will give way. [6]
But she looked so frail and dainty that his voice, to himself, sounded rude. [11]
It would have shattered his frail little carcass if, if"--he turned to his companion--"if you had kissed him, Carmen. [11]
What power can reside in these frail figures of brass or marble? [10]
I remember how pitifully frail and light she was as I picked her up and followed Madame through the doorway into the little bedroom. [9]
Mild-mannered and frail, patient in ordinary converse, --a lion for the faith. [9]
Of course this pastime soon lost its novelty, inasmuch as it must necessarily have been the case that when so powerful a deity sent a frail human opponent "to grass" he never came back any more. [5]
From this platform one looks down the narrow, slippery stairs that are lost in the boiling mist, and wonders at the daring that built these steps down into that hell, and carried the frail walk of planks over the bowlders outside the fall. [4]
For lack of one I had been rudely jolted out of the frail shell I had thought so secure, and stood, as it were, naked and shivering to the storms, staring at a world that was no function of me, after all. [9]
Mrs. Breitmann held one arm, Mr. Bentley another, and between them they fairly carried her out, for she was frail indeed. [9]
She is bent on the journey," my uncle said with a groan, as he cast a loving glance at his frail wife and raised his folded hands to Heaven. [10]
While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. [2]
Moreover, the conduct of Eva who, though she entreated her forgiveness, by no means showed herself contritely ready to resign her lover, had given her so much food for thought that she could not find the rest her frail body required. [10]
Of course I never tried to raise these suspicions in your mind, but then your knowledge of the fact that some people's poor frail human nature is a sort of crazy institution anyhow, ought to have suggested them to you. [5]
How much more must it have been so with Miss Bronte, delicate and frail in constitution, tried by much anxiety and sorrow in early life, and now left to face her life alone. [14]
If you feel lonely, visit his wife or Frail von Nordwyk; they would be glad to see you. [10]
However--to be exact--there is one place where the serenity lapses for a while; this is while one is crossing the Schnurrtobel Bridge, a frail structure which swings its gossamer frame down through the dizzy air, over a gorge, like a vagrant spider-strand. [5]
The frail hat is offered up to the implacable season. [4]
There, projected out into the night, were the cables of steel holding the frail platform over the abyss of night and terror. [4]
So she tore her bedclothes to strips and tied them together and descended this frail rope in the night, and it broke, and she fell and was badly bruised, and remained three days insensible, meantime neither eating nor drinking. [5]
She was dependent, frail, sensitive, conscientious. [6]
Rufinus' wife, a frail, ailing little woman, with a small face and rather hollow cheeks, who must once have been very attractive and engaging, might have passed for his daughter; she was, in fact, twenty years younger than her husband. [10]
Each changing form, frail vesture of decay, The soul unclad forgets it once hath worn, Stained with the travel of the weary day, And shamed with rents from every wayside thorn. [6]
How small and frail she was! [9]
But with his frail physique it was asking too much. [4]
At last Becky's frail limbs refused to carry her farther. [5]
He was a frail creature, and three years later, in London, died of consumption. [5]
Once Lady Eglington, frail and gentle and sympathetic, came, but the trouble deepened in his eyes, and the lids closed over them, so that he might not see her face. [11]
She was looking frail and delicate, and her beauty, newly refined, and with a fresh charm, as of mystery or pain, was touched by feverishness. [11]
I set aside, for the Museum, those articles which were the most frail and precious. [5]
He was a favorite in the Langdon household, but his suitability as a husband for the frail and gentle daughter was questioned. [5]
Others, too, had fancied that they had seen sails, and Dion would gladly have gone out to sea to investigate, but he was entirely alone in a frail hired boat, and this would not have been permitted to pass beyond the harbour. [10]
It was the Cure, the beloved M. Fabre, whose life had been spent among them, whom they obeyed as well as they could, for they were but frail humanity, after all--crude, simple folk, touched with imagination. [11]
Then she sank....I can see her now, a frail thing, so transparent you could almost look through her--white like ashes--and her eyes!...Her eyes have always haunted me. [13]
There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction. [5]
And is there anything very strange in the fact that many a daughter of earth finds it a sweet foretaste of heaven to wear about her frail earthly tabernacle these glittering reminders of the celestial city? [6]
I was maddened and disheartened by that elusive resistance in her--apparently so frail a thing!--that neither argument nor importunity could break down. [9]
He was rather an enemy to them both, and he would overturn, if he could, the frail craft of their happiness in the storm. [9]
Her canoe struck a rock slantwise, shuddered and swung round, but by a dexterous stroke she freed the frail craft. [11]
The soul of a hero dwelt in the frail body of this maiden! [10]
The cyclone of 1892 tore down two great blocks of stone buildings in the center of Port Louis--the chief architectural feature-and left the uncomely and apparently frail blocks standing. [5]

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