Enfeebled

Examples

• The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Genoa and Venice, the only two remaining which can pretend to an independent existence, have both been enfeebled by it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The effort of remembering that he wanted to speak to me was, but too evidently, the only effort that his enfeebled memory was now able to achieve. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With my enfeebled health I do not know whether I shall ever be able to complete it, now that my assistant has been taken from me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I am now in my eighty-fourth year, and the last year has considerably enfeebled me, so that I hardly expect to remain another. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Meanwhile the barbarians swung down into the broken-up and enfeebled world of civilization from the west and from the east. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A mother cradled in her enfeebled arms the child, last of many, whose glazed eye was about to close for ever. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But after the death of Alexander III, in 1181, the peculiar weakness of the papacy, its liability to fall to old and enfeebled men, became manifest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One day he was walking up and down, trying to think in spite of his enfeebled state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had learned that the electro-magnet at the receiving end would at any great distance become so enfeebled that it would fail to make any record of the message. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His memory of events, at that past time, is hopelessly enfeebled, said Ezra Jennings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A form was near--what form, the pitch-dark night and my enfeebled vision prevented me from distinguishing. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The republic of the United Provinces is as much enfeebled by its debts as either Genoa or Venice. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The practice of funding has gradually enfeebled every state which has adopted it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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