Our part of the valley now appeared nearly deserted by its inhabitants, Kory-Kory, his aged father, and a few decrepid old people being all that were left.
As we advanced farther along the building, we were struck with the aspect of four or five hideous old wretches, on whose decrepid forms time and tattooing seemed to have obliterated every trace of humanity.
I hobbling over the ground like some decrepid wretch, and Toby leaping forward like a greyhound.
While at breakfast on the second morning we were accosted by an old anddecrepid beggar.
One decrepid old man gave her a loaf of bread, blessing it devoutly as he placed it in her hands.
These gentlemen never know the satisfaction of youth, but skip the years of manhood, and are decrepid soon after they are of age.
This frequently cuts off Charity from the greatest Objects of Compassion, and inspires People with a Malevolence towards those poor decrepid Parts of our Species, in whom Human Nature is defaced by Infirmity and Dotage.
While I was in all my Agony, I observed a decrepid old Fellow come into the Room, and looking with a Sense of Pleasure in his Face at all my Vehemence and Transport.
We think ourselves too lusty and too nimble for that blear-eyed decrepid old gentleman to catch us.
This good Body is of a lasting Constitution, though extremely decayed in her Eyes, and decrepid in her Feet.
O worse than Chains, Dungeon, or Beggary, or decrepid Age!
Before I enter upon the particular Parts of her Character, it is necessary to Preface, that she is the only Child of a decrepid Father, whose Life is bound up in hers.
This migration presented no new features, except that several sick and decrepid were barbarously left behind, for lions and hyaenas to devour.
We were kindly looked upon by one Sultan, a sick and decrepid Eunuch, who having served five Amirs, was allowed to remain in the palace.
Their gold embroidered cloaks are gone, and in their stead you see long blue brass-buttoned coats on the mutilated or decrepid bodies of old sailors.
How could he ever suspect that all this splendour of columns and cupolas is destined to shelter a couple of thousand of poor, decrepid sailors!
We left, finally, showering francs and compliments; but I crawled out a decrepid wreck, and refused pitilessly to do more than view the exterior of other châteaux.
What woman, who has a right appreciation of her charms, can hesitate what course to pursue, when a decrepid husband is put in one scale--society and a score of beaux in the other?
And you, worthy imperial consort, must, on no account, be mindful of me Cheng and my wife, decrepidas we are in years.
Even the flower garden, which extends over the whole area of the back grounds, with its trees and rockeries, also possessed to that day an air of luxuriance and freshness, which betrayed no signs of a ruined or decrepid establishment.
While nurse Li walked along with lady Feng, her feet scarcely touched the ground, as she kept on saying: "I don't really attach any value to this decrepidexistence of mine!
Did I tell you of that poor old decrepid creature Dorcas, who came to beg some sugar of me the other day?
Though this drug does not appear universally to shorten life, as was evident from the cases of Terreeoboo, Kaoo, and some other chiefs, who were very old men, yet it invariably brings on an early and decrepid old age.
Here were forty or fifty decrepid old willows, so poor and shrivelled that one felt, after enjoying {211} their shade in the heat of that sultry day, like bestowing alms upon them.
Towards night, however, we were gratified by finding a fewdecrepid old cotton-wood trees, on the bank of the Sheetskadee, among which to encamp.
With the old decrepid and weak Body which has liv'd perfectly well, and whose Actions have been exemplary to the Youth and edifying to those advanced in Years?
He failed in many attempts to destroy your brothers and sisters-in-law, but succeeded at last in transforming yourself and your wife into decrepid old persons.
We were kept very close while on board the Curlew, because her crew was very weak, principally decrepid old men and boys; but then we were kindly spoken to, and respectfully and humanely treated by lieutenant Head, and his worthy surgeon.
They recollect their aged mothers, and decrepid fathers, worn down with age, labor, and anxious thoughts for the welfare of their absent sons.
His queen, Anne of Bretagne, died just about that time, and a few months afterwards the decrepid valetudinarian of fifty-three proposed marriage with the blooming sister of Henry VIII.
The owner of those frank, fair features can never have preferred ambition to love, a decrepid French king to a gallant English duke.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decrepid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
