Usa "decrepitude" in una frase
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decrepitude
1. In public the old girl bristled with an imperious air of confidence and hard-nosed, old-world defiance, but Annie was convinced that her private inner sanctum would be a shambling mess of decrepitude and cat infestations, full of strange smells and unfamiliar utility furniture that dated from the middle of the previous century
2. When dressed, their faces had given no hint of the body’s decrepitude, instead suggesting agelessness, something akin to youth
3. Much later, during the difficult years of her decrepitude, Úrsula would intervene in the conversa-tions of the many travelers who came by the house at that time and ask them if they had left a plaster Saint Joseph there during the war to be taken care of until the rains passed
4. Even in her later years, when she could no longer get out of bed, it seemed that she was simply defeated by decrepitude, but no one discovered that she was blind
5. Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family that for the first time she saw clearly the truths that her busy life in former times had prevented her from seeing
6. It was then that it occurred to her that her clumsiness was not the first victory of decrepitude and darkness but a sentence passed by time
7. At home, Amaranta was weaving her interminable shroud and Úrsula dragged about in her decrepitude through the depths of the shadows where the only thing that was still visible was the ghost of José Arcadio Buendía under the chestnut tree
8. Emma, her youthful beauty increased a millionfold in the presence of this decrepitude, shrugs
9. Like a few years more before we fall into decrepitude
10. Not that I’m complaining about Lywys, mind you! The last thing we need would be to have both of them down—or up, as the case may be—with it! Especially since you’d probably claim the weary weight and ancient decrepitude of all your years—your many, many years—made you too feeble to sit up with them both all night
11. sceptical lawyer, the least complying of usurers, always hesitate to admit decrepitude of heart or the corruption of worldly calculation while the eyes are still bathed in purity and no wrinkles seam the brow
12. decrepitude of the once thriving corn-mill beside its pool that long ago
13. The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty
14. One would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light from the night
15. His slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual strength of body and of character
16. From the landlady's evidence it appeared that "Semyon Ivanovitch, bless his soul, poor lamb, for twenty years had been tucked away in his corner, without caring what folks thought, for all the days of his life on earth he was a stranger to socks, handkerchiefs, and all such things," and what is more, Ustinya Fyodorovna had seen with her own eyes, thanks to the decrepitude of the screen, that the poor dear man sometimes had had nothing to cover his bare skin
17. A pale sky, above the world that is ending through decrepitude, going, perhaps, to pass away with the clouds: shreds of worn-out purple of the sunsets wash off their color in a river sleeping on the horizon, submerged with rays and water
18. with his air of decrepitude, feebleness, and poverty
19. for the pension, and five for the navy hospital fund; in which not only the imbecility of decrepitude, but the imbecility of infancy should always find an asylum