The amiable Russian Lady Macbeth was much better adapted to the part of Desdemona: all softness and gentleness, she smiled as she lifted her languishing eyes, and murmured in the tenderest accents, "Infirm of purpose!
Daughters led their infirm fathers to the polls to be sure that no deception should mock their failing sight.
But this, as cutting off all infirm looking backward from the hardships of their march, had been thought so necessary a measure by all the chieftains, that even Oubacha himself was the first to authorize the act by his own example.
She dispatched a message to Mrs. Hoyt, cheerfully laid aside her bonnet, and took a seat near the sufferer, while the infirm mother retired to rest.
Alice, do you suppose she will be satisfied to bury herself out here, with aninfirm old woman for a companion?
Her chin rested in her palms, and the soft eyes were bent anxiously on the countenance of her infirm and aged companion.
Too aged and infirm even to undertake a task which would have been to him only a labor of love, M.
In this article we have shown upon what an infirm basis the evolution hypothesis rests, and have suggested a legitimate alternative.
Paris contains fifty-eight nunneries, the greater part of which make the education of the young and the care of the infirm and the aged their main occupation.
And they complied with his commands; and a crier proclaimed through the city, that no curtained damsel nor honoured lady nor infirm old woman should fail to go forth to meet the bride.
Thus we remained less than a month, during which time she became more and more infirm and disordered; and she endured no more than fifty days before she was numbered among the people of the other world.
Religion commands us to nourish our poor and infirm parents; Nature (the voice of our own interest) commands us to do away with them.
When you enter the garret of the poor, infirm old woman, it seems to her as though there were three suns in the heavens; when you abandon her, the blackness of midnight surrounds her.
Is to-day an infirm old woman, a worthy object of the compassion of charitable people," continued M.
Well, she was too infirm now; and, besides, she did n't like to trust herself on the railroads.
Carriages went round to the convent; and the women were loaded into them, packed into them, carried and put in, if they were too infirm to go themselves.
You will have to ring your bell ten or fifteen times before you get a servant there; and when he goes off to fill your order you will grow old and infirm before you see him again.
I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with a pathetic interest.
To the old and the infirm the captain granted the cabin in the poop; the others slept where they could.
Except the malefactors whom we have described and the diseased or infirm persons, the whole male population of the town, between sixteen years and sixty were seen in the ranks of the train-band.
The venerable Father Ephraim sat in his easy-chair, not only hoary-headed and infirm with age, but worn down by a lingering disease which it was evident would very soon transfer his patriarchal staff to other hands.
Those who were able to stand rose up in order that they might the better see her, and the others, the infirm ones, stretched on their mattresses, strove to raise themselves and turn their heads.
Yet there are plenty of infirm people crawling about our streets.
I did not know what to do with her; I had even renounced all attempts to teach her to read; I left her for days together in a corner, infirm and tongue-tied like a lack-wit.
And it would even be difficult for her to earn anything as charwoman, for she had that infant on her hands as well as her infirm husband--a big child, whom she would have to wash and feed.
They bowed to her and followed her; and one woman even made her infirm child, whom she was bringing back from the Grotto, touch her gown.
Inside a shanty which served as the door-keeper's abode Pierre only saw an infirm man rolled up in a tattered strip of what had once been a horse-cloth.
Some infirm sufferers were dragging themselves about, others were being carried, and many remained in a heap on the platform.
An infirm old man displayed his withered hand in the conviction that it would be made sound again were he only allowed to touch the monstrance.
At last he even sank so low as to pretend that he simply regarded that poor, infirm creature with pity.
The restless are often confined to bed to prevent annoyance to the other patients, and the infirm are thus disposed of for the want of suitable seats.
Nor does one see maimed, infirmor very old people, except now and then--so rarely as at once to be reminded of their rarity.
This heartless Government, that flings aged and infirm congreganists out of their homes without mercy for age or sex, has, at least, one tender spot in its make-up.
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The worshippers stand during divine service, even the aged and infirm only rest by leaning on their cross-handled staffs.
How old and infirm people get up and down I cannot tell.
Cautiously as Barbara's visits had been managed, the infirm monarch's eye had maintained its keenness of vision here also.
The infirm and those who through weakness needed more food had to receive special dispensation from the superior.
Cambyses nodded his consent, and the old man began to read in a voice far louder than any one could have supposed possible from his infirm appearance "On the fifth day of the month Thoth, I was sent for by the king.
How could I possibly fashion an infirm old man like an eager youth?
