Boccaccio, then sinking under the infirmities of age, roused his departing genius: still was there marrow in the bones of the aged lion, and he engaged in the task of composing his celebrated Commentaries on the Divina Commedia.
Everything that he has said is coloured and warmed with feeling for the infirmities of men.
Borne down by sorrow, and the infirmities of declining years, he died, and his large estates were immediately taken for the use of the crown.
He also cultivated the virtue of patience with the infirmities of others.
Fortune will give us Disappointments enough, and Nature is attended with Infirmities enough, without our adding to the unhappy Side of our Account by our Spleen or ill Humour.
She is in that time of Life which is neither affected with the Follies of Youth or Infirmities of Age; and her Conversation is so mixed with Gaiety and Prudence, that she is agreeable both to the Young and the Old.
He recollected that the Count had at last consented to his union with Mrs. Dubois, and reflected that the infirmities and loneliness of the Count laid on them obligations they should not neglect.
Such unaccountable infirmities might be in many, perhaps in most, cases got the better of.
Such unaccountable infirmitiesmight be overcome, in many cases, and perhaps in most.
But as soon as it comes the length of disease, all his secret infirmities shew themselves.
But as soon as it amounts to real disease, all his secret infirmities show themselves.
After the infirmities of age prevented his bearing his part of official duty.
After the infirmities of age prevented him from bearing his part of official duty.
And as nature had unfortunately endowed me with admirable powers as a mimic, the infirmitiesof this poor priest afforded only too good an opportunity for the exercise of my talent.
To these diseased infirmities of vanity or pride, whether exhibited in Gabriel or Lucretia, Dalibard administered without apparent effort, not only by his conversation, but his habits of life.
Nor was he by nature vain and ostentatious,--those infirmitiesaccompany a larger and more luxurious nature.
Campbell has justly noticed as a beneficent provision of nature that it is in the period of life when enjoyments are fewest, and infirmities most numerous, that the march of time seems most rapid.
Ay, but, Mowbray, replied the poor man, those wretches have not had their minds enervated by such infirmities of body as I have long laboured under.
And the pain that thou hast felt in thy veins shall give thee understanding above all others, that thou mayest cure man’s infirmities and heal the sick of his house.
As to the vicar, he was a man whose advanced age and infirmities effectually precluded him from visiting more than was absolutely necessary among his parishioners.
He was already bending under the infirmities of a premature old age.
He was tolerant of human infirmities in an age of angry controversy and ascetic rigors.
They had none of the infirmities which so often have dimmed the lustre of great benefactors.
That love, he said, should make him assist and sympathise with the Church, even in her infirmities and faults.
But infirmities teach us to curtail our pleasures, and many things that seem natural to man's bodily configuration are found to be unattainable.
But, notwithstanding Shelley's readiness to admire and Southey's readiness to be admired, no one familiar with their peculiar infirmities of intellect and temper would have predicted that the two men would prove congenial companions.
Recollections after a lapse of forty years, touching the infirmities of former schoolmasters, should be regarded with suspicion, even when they proceed from habitually careful narrators.
No wonder that the biographer who dealt thus frankly with his friend's infirmities is distasteful to the enthusiasts of Mr. Buxton Forman's school.
As the eighteenth century advanced there appears to be more readiness to remit the execution of sentences of scourging on account of age and infirmities and of "accidentes," which probably mean crippling by torture.
What if he made mistakes, and showed in his career many of the infirmities of human nature!
His appetite leaves him; his health forsakes him; his infirmities increase upon him.
It is evident, that a body instituted for these purposes, must be so formed as to exclude as much as possible from its own character, those infirmities and that mutability which it is designed to remedy.
During his life he wrote many books for the library; but at length his infirmitiesgrew upon him, and he fell asleep in the Lord in the presence of the venerable Prior and the Brothers, and was buried in the eastern cloister.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infirmities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
