infirmity

How To Use infirmity In A Sentence

• By reason of which infirmity he was not able so distinctly and clearly to discern the points and blots of the dice as formerly he had been accustomed to do; whence it might very well have happened, said he, as old dim-sighted Isaac took Jacob for Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• Too early death, or severe infirmity, or excessive distance could eliminate any possibility of a significant relationship.
• A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public – house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
• As things stood at the beginning of 1990, Mrs Adam's life was reasonably settled and happy, taking into account her age and physical infirmity.
• our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses
• That is to say it did not stem from any inherent infirmity or weakness or deficiency.
• Thou takest all advantages against me; old scores are called over, every infirmity is animadverted upon, and no sooner is a false step taken than I am beaten for it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• The publication has only 163 pages, but it is full of the joy found in people when one sympathetically understands the oddness of age and mental infirmity.
• No rest for the elected, not with economic infirmity set to color the Obama presidency from day one and a need to address the psychological and policy aspects of the financial crisis as quickly and as much as any uninaugurated leader can. President-Elect in Name,
• And, yes, with age for some people comes infirmity, but that infirmity is based on individual factors and not on a physical absolute that, at a “pre-set” age, one is automatically old and unable to function. June « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website