Very small, tender, and fragile he looked, and his features had an almost mournful expression, but there was something peculiarly engaging in this frail little being.
I never was so happy as with them; and as I was a frail subject at the best, and Arthur was not born till I was nine years old, I was too great a treasure to be contradicted.
By degrees he became as attenuated as some of the tendrils he cultivated with such absorption, and as frail as an orchid.
Now the frail vessel Thou hast made No hand but thine shall fill-- The waters of the earth have failed, And I am thirsty still.
A frail child born to poverty, A German miner's son; A poor monk searching in his cell, What honors he has won!
Thou who hast taught me in thy fear, Yet seest me frail at best, Oh, grant me loss with Moses here, To gain his future rest.
Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove; Thou who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; From vain temptation dost set free; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
God's thoughts are wisest; human schemes Are vain delusions, idle dreams; Our purposes are frail and weak; With earthly mind we seldom seek What pleaseth God.
By the side of this devastation, at every turn, you see the most curious sight of all,--a tree frail from age or extreme youth left untouched!
At the nuptials, however, the brides said to the bridegrooms: "We are not for you, such frail men as you are.
The poor man loved his children, but being frail was unable to resist the frequent importunities and threats of his wife.
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.
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?
She looked very frail and rather pathetic as she leaned her head against the chair back.
I cannot believe myself that the complicated creature, so frail of frame, so limitless in dreams and hopes, is the result of a vortex.
This weak, frail slip of a girl had deliberately given her life for her convictions; she had died, in order that he might be saved as a witness for the Goobers!
Would the volcano go on erupting, and blow Peter and his frail packing-box thru the walls of Guggenheim's Department-store?
Then came a young girl, frail and sensitive, slightly crippled.
A number of these frail craft were owned in Greville, and Fred had a fine one himself, which was only a short distance off.
A single Indian managed the pole, while the others squatted carefully in their respective positions and were expected to keep quiet, so as not to disintegrate the frail structure.
He stepped into the water, which was up to his shoe tops, and began drawing in the rawhide rope which held the frail boat from breaking away.
Beneath the same roof Margaret found Chopin, "always ill, and as frail as a snow-drop, but an exquisite genius.
Men employed in dredging sand saw it as they were getting into their frail boat on their way to their work.
Now Raimundo was, as we know, but a frail creature, who had never gone through the athletic training of these young aristocrats, his friends.
He was liable to whimsical alarms and bewilderments, amounting sometimes almost to hallucinations, her nervous system was calm and well balanced; she was healthy and sound, he frail and placid.
The woman who officiated in the "Sanctum Sanctorum" was the fair and frail Emma--in due course to be the wife of Sir William Hamilton, and the goddess of Nelson.
Violent sobs shook her frail form from head to foot.
Her little white hands were so frail and flower-like; her golden tresses, falling over her proud shoulders like a gauzy mantle, gave out a delicate fragrance.
Springing to her side, he took her in his arms, and drew her frail body against his strong breast.
Being straight in front of the door, she had seen almost all that happened; and her brave old berserk heart was bursting with pride in the courage of this frail child, whom she had hitherto regarded with a kind of affectionate scorn.
In her frail grip the axe turned, so that the brute caught the flat of it instead of the edge.
The door of the archway was made of solid oak, brown, shrunken, and split in many places; thoughfrail in appearance, it was firmly held in place by a system of iron bolts arranged in symmetrical patterns.
This love, cursed by her father, had cost the life of her mother and brought her only sorrow, mingled with a few frail hopes.
Unhappily, the living barrier proved more frail than the feeble breastwork which the hands of burghers and women had constructed.
The Walloons, and at last the citizens, feared to lift their heads above their frail rampart.
There were not many of them, and they looked a pitifully frailbarricade to her.
Owen dove forward and caught her as she fell, and then with a strength that was remarkable in his frail body he carried her to the lounge in the parlor.
But first you must a season fast and pray, a season > for a while 8 Till from its bonds the spirit assoiled is, assoiled > absolved; set free 9 And has its strength recured from frail infirmities.
The track is edged by frail bracken of palest green; ferns like filmy green lace drape the trees.
But human bliss still meets some envious storm; He droops to view his Paynter's mangled form: Presumptuous grief, while pensive Taste repines O'er the frail relics of her Attic shrines!
The dream of idle love, So frail and fair, Hath vanished, and its golden wings above Melt in mid air.
The imaginative Sienese is Ademollo; the 'Frail one of the Flower' will be recognized as La Dame aux Camelias.
Always frail and ailing, William had for years by sheer force of will-power conquered his bodily weakness and endured the fatigue of campaigns in which he was content to share all hardships with his soldiers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
