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1. "We are not mortal men," Thom said, "we don't have a new generation to raise before we are infirm
2. Trolleys move slowly congealing meals along in front of care staff, and porters wheel the infirm and the damaged towards toilets and x-rays
3. to one-pound fifty for the cheapest on the bottom shelf, where the elderly and infirm wouldn't be
4. their parents get more infirm
5. Often left by infirm or deceased owners, she said you could read the bewilderment in their glaring faces
6. Over a thousand prisoners of war were then dragged into slavery to Kumassi, and many of the chiefs, beside the old and infirm, were bound together and burned alive by the savage army of Prempeh
7. She was convinced that she was weak and mentally infirm and
8. “Three are retired reclusives who never leave home, three are too physically infirm to leave their beds due to magically inflicted injuries, and two are hopelessly insane! And the injured three are receiving long-distance Sendings of the Readings beings taken all over this valley, but of you two primarily, of course
9. Without the negrav chutes they’d have been old and infirm before completing their task
10. He was the youngest of a family of seven, was unmarried, and the only support of aged and infirm parents, with whom he lived at Cana; his brothers and sister were either married or deceased, and none lived there
11. She could have been fifty or over a hundred but she was anything but infirm
12. The Democratic Party, the left wing socialists, have gained 25% of the vote promoting a similar "back to the past" platform where bigger government would mean better care of the elderly and infirm
13. In fact, the dome has been abandoned except for the hospitals and homes for the elderly who were believed to be too ill or infirm to depart with the others
14. Not only that, out going choppers returning to base would take the sick and infirm to hospital in Salisbury
15. The phone rang and was answered by an older woman, her voice weak and infirm
16. His only real ally, Vajpayee, was now too infirm to help him
17. It is within reach of all,�the sick, the aged, the infirm, the paralytic, the blind, the poor, the unlearned,�all can pray
18. zens, uplift their poor and care for their aged and infirm
19. port of the infirm and aged, creation of self sufficiency in the country,
20. infirm or old, and whether living in the East or West, is expected
21. Her father was elderly and infirm, and her brothers were still young children
22. But what good were such experiences if experienced alone, or without the possibility of sharing the pleasure with someone with the lust for life to live them, not simply attend them? And such experiences must surely be enjoyed when one still has the vitality of youth, when the body still yearns excitement? Were not the old and the infirm, no matter how rich, content to see out their days close to hearth and home, with no more excitement than fresh air to breathe and a good book to read, and perhaps a tipple before bedtime? Litzia felt the ticking of her own clock keenly and did not like what she heard
23. Gladly would she render this service, which was at the same time her duty, for nothing, if she had not the future to consider and an infirm father
24. He also watched as Ravan forbid the harm of innocents, the elderly, infirm, women, and children
25. It was in its infirm old age, as decrepit as its driver
26. I hoped that in her infirm and battered brain she was building up hope, that there was a glimmer of happiness, an intention to make an effort
27. Easy, wasn’t it? Yes, but what did he prove? How could he have arrived at a conclusion different? His conclusion was in agreement with his premises, but his premises were as infirm as clay, as brittle as dry ground, as fragile as glass
28. "Infirm people," repeated the Cat
29. Some bore their choicest articles, others their young, and some their aged and infirm, into the forest, which spread itself like a verdant carpet of bright green against the side of the mountain
30. He had sometimes propelled her on warm summer evenings, an infirm widow of independent, if limited, means, in her convalescent bathchair with slow revolutions of its wheels as far as the corner of the North Circular road opposite Mr Gavin Low's place of business where she had remained for a certain time scanning through his onelensed binocular fieldglasses unrecognisable citizens on tramcars, roadster bicycles equipped with inflated pneumatic tyres, hackney carriages, tandems, private and hired landaus, dogcarts, ponytraps and brakes passing from the city to the Phoenix Park and vice versa
31. An old man, widower, unkempt of hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing: an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison
32. 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
33. He deferred the intention from day to day, his habit of acting on his conclusions being made infirm by his repugnance to every possible conclusion and its consequent act
34. Most of the men were in the fields, so it was largely women and children who crept out of the hovels at their coming, along with a few grandfathers too infirm for work
35. and perfect? Is he stupid? Is he untidy? Is he infirm? Is he illnatured? He's exquisite—so it can be only THAT; and that would open up the whole thing
36. I’faith, whene’er some old Woman had the Reputation of a Witch all o’er the Country, she was found, upon closer Inspection, to be a wretched Creature, doting and distemper’d, not so much malevolent as poor and infirm
37. Just then there came a Stirring within, a Shuffling as of Carpet Slippers worn by a very old or infirm Party, and the Door was presently open’d
38. SHE WAS SITTING OVER toast and a cup of tea, looking infirm, but I knew better
39. Father Fauchelevent was an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be performed, flung himself upon it like a man, who at the moment when he is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity
40. I am infirm; that is why I require
41. If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch on each other, they paid no heed to this
42. The only furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with spiders' webs
43. "Why, together, me and Flannery and the demon gods must have weighed close onto six hundred pounds, and that bog out there is infirm if it's anything, and the more we walk the deeper we sink, and a cry strangled in me throat, for I'm thinking of those scenes in the old story where the Hound of the Baskervilles or some such fiend chases the heroine out in the moor, and down she goes in a watery pit, wishing she had kept at that diet, but it's too late, and bubbles rise, to pop on the surface
44. At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue SaintMartin a little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering his glasses of cocoa impartially,—now to the Government, now to anarchy
45. ‘Why together, me and Flannery and the demon gods must have weighed close on to six hundred pounds, and that bog out there is infirm if it’s anything, and the more we walk the deeper we sink, and a cry strangled in me throat, for I’m thinking of those scenes in the old story where the Hound of the Baskervilles or some such fiend chases the heroine out in the moor and down she goes, in a watery pit, wishing she had kept at that diet, but it’s too late, and bubbles rise to pop on the surface
46. I knew that while she lived I could never be the husband of another and better wife; and, though five years my senior (her family and her father had lied to me even in the particular of her age), she was likely to live as long as I, being as robust in frame as she was infirm in mind
47. Place the infirm, youngsters and any injured in the dinghy or boat first and as many of the able-bodied as the boat is made to accommodate
48. But they learnt, on enquiry, that its possessor, an elderly lady of very good character, was unfortunately too infirm to mix with the world, and never stirred from home
49. The first of these, B—ski, was a man of infirm health, of consumptive tendency, irascible, and of a weak, nervous system; but a good and generous man
50. "She is old and infirm," he said; "she loves me better than anything in the world, and I don't even know if she's still living