Infirmity

Examples

• Almost every class of artificers is subject to some peculiar infirmity occasioned by excessive application to their peculiar species of work. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When is a man to be safe from such wit, if age and infirmity will not protect him? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• This natural infirmity I may very much regret, and I may endeavour, by all possible means, to free my self from it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He found his brother-in-law in a condition of pitiable infirmity--and dreadfully afraid of Rebecca, though eager in his praises of her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She went once with Jo, but the old gentleman, not being aware of her infirmity, stared at her so hard from under his heavy eyebrows, and said Hey! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Few people had discovered some cowardice and much infirmity of purpose under this imposing exterior. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It's always a pleasure to me to be tender towards human infirmity, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Pend upon it, Sammy, it's a constitootional infirmity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I like to be tender to human infirmity--though I don't get many chances of exercising that virtue in my line of life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• At eleven, on Thursday morning, Superintendent Seegrave (who is a mass of human infirmity) points out to all the women servants the smear on the door. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In man alone, this unnatural conjunction of infirmity, and of necessity, may be observed in its greatest perfection. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• No, no, no,' said Eugene; shocked--to do him justice--at the thought of trifling with her infirmity. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• However, having an infirmity--for I am hard of hearing, sir-- I expressed in pantomime the greatest astonishment. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But the spirit of resignation and endurance that had so long upheld her, was unable to contend against bodily weakness and infirmity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He was not a man to discover infirmity in the presence of danger. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I wish that the dread of infirmities was not so strong in me! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We have been unfortunate, and recent events have drawn us from that every-day tranquillity befitting my years and infirmities. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And to bear with my infirmities, Jane: to overlook my deficiencies. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But age has its little infirmities of temper, and she was not quite brought round yet. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Dr. Franklin's increasing infirmities prevented his regular attendance at the council chamber, and in 1788 he retired wholly from public life. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• That's one of the many human infirmities which I always treat tenderly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mr. Pickwick nodded his readiness to humour the infirmities of age, and entered into a general conversation with the other members of the circle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But with the blood of this ancient royal race, many of their infirmities had descended to Athelstane. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Have compassion on my infirmities for his sake. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He procured prolonged leave of absence from the East India House, and indeed, his infirmities were daily increasing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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