How To Use Feeble In A Sentence
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In this kind of world, the weak and feeble minded are cast to the side to die an unambiguous death, while the strong and wise go on to live a fruitful, long life.
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The Brown case was very feeble especially on the decline of manufacturing and where Marr did nail him. teledu
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
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And you can do it backside too so that you end up ollieing over into a regular switch feeble.
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Before she could announce me, I retrieved the coat, muttered a few feeble excuses, and ran.
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Public trust in congressmen has been even feebler, averaging just 15%.
Why Everyone Distrusts Both Business And Government
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A pretty feeble ruse, perhaps, but it works. which might work except the nobble is pretty damned big ... that's the problems; and then there's writing as avoidance of writing (kinda like this post!):
Writer's Block
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It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
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I've never heard the term aged news," said Mr. Berke, giving off an air of superiority, even if it was a feeble attempt at being funny.
Times Editors Bomb in Daily Show Visit
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The music was obvious and predictable, and the lyrics were about as feeble as I've ever heard.
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We suddenly heard a feeble clang of the gate - like someone was knocking, but not very hard.
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When I reached the banks of the great estuary, which are here very bare and exposed, the waters had receded from the large and level space of sand, through which a stream, now feeble and fordable, found its way to the ocean.
Redgauntlet
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His voice sounded feeble and far away.
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His voice sounded feeble and far away.
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Conservative operatives have whipped their feeble-minded drones into a frenzy and unleashed them upon the world to spread fear and misinformation.
'Tea Party Express' trucks on with tour aimed at health care
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The reclusive teenager was determined to tan his pallid body, but did not want to expose his feeble frame to others.
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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
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Derby toyed with City's feeble efforts in the second half and were content not to take chances.
The Sun
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Our attempts at being nonjudgemental, forgiving and compassionate are feeble.
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In the olden days you retired because you were simply too old and feeble to carry the coal to the surface any more.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- Tis a gift to be feeble tis a gift to be asleep, tis a gift tocow-touw to the fascistcreep, andif we find ourselves in a FEMA camp tonight, we will know that the loonies and kooks were right.
OpEdNews - Diary: The Purpose and Practice of Sarcasm
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They fly up from the grass or heather in a series of short, rather feeble steps, making three thin notes as they rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dombey, exulting in the long – looked – for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch – chain that depended from below his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeble rays of the distant fire.
Dombey and Son
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You go into the shop expecting to find a nice selection of sun protection products and all you see are four feeble bottles of sunscreen in a sea of tanners, bronzers and after sun lotion.
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An unusually weak and feeble recovery?
Times, Sunday Times
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In a feeble gesture toward appeasing cardiologists everywhere, I sopped some of the fat off the top with more paper towels.
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The play during the latter interludes - humane warmth not being Flannery's forte - seems somewhat enfeebled.
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a small deckhouse, holding on by ropes, and in feebleness welcoming the stranger with hats in hand.
The Diadem Rescuing the Crew of the C. W. Connor
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These sound pretty feeble reasons for Tony Blair to flunk the great test of his leadership.
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'The first instance I shall give of the abiding influence of strong impressions received in infancy, is in the character of a lady who is now no more; and who was too eminent for piety and virtue, to leave any doubt of her being now exalted to the enjoyment of that felicity which her enfeebled mind, during its abode on earth, never dared to contemplate.
The Mother's Book
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These feeble-minded hoodlums have primarily been targeting foreign tourists and women.
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After that, I was far too weak and feeble to lift a glass.
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Sexy does not have to mean stockings and suspenders or some feeble excuse for a top, with a teeny, weeny micro skirt.
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The productivity performance he has inherited is particularly feeble.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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Don't be shy about telling the world the truth about our feeble-minded chief executive.
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Suddenly, the feeble figure on the bed leapt up with a balletic movement, and, clutching its stomach, sprinted towards the toilet.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency-
Archive 2006-01-01
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The feebleness of their excuse for abandoning their soi disant principles – a meaningless executive order – is all the proof one needs.
Obama Nation
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Sometimes the pills make me feel faint and feeble.
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The productivity performance he has inherited is particularly feeble.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was an easy way for society to lock up girls who were ‘frivolous, sinful and feeble-minded.’
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He cries weakly, the effort clearly straining his feeble body.
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Anxious to escape thoughts so little comprehended, King hurried on, and essayed a feeble 'cooee' when a few yards from the sleeper.
The Red True Story Book
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It was a feeble effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this time of war and destruction, a fearful thought, a threatening glance, were common and yet they still played with a weak mind or a feeble soul.
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-- In myxedema one of the cardinal symptoms is a persistently subnormal temperature and, though prone to infection, subjects of myxedema show but feeble febrile response and readily succumb.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
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His feeble attempts to rid himself of his passion for her had been more to humour his scourged pride than to release him from subjection.
DANSVILLE
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The productivity performance he has inherited is particularly feeble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cheney is the most pathetic of human beings: he is a fearmonger who preaches righteousness, when all along he preys upon the feeble minds that believe in him.
Cheney: Obama pretending we are not at war
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Years went over, and the Giant grew very old and feeble.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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After all, if you wander past many licensed premises in the early hours of the morning you are likely to hear subdued mutterings which the more feeble-minded are likely to interpret as ghosts.
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Through dry, cracked lips, I began a feeble attempt at reassurance, but was immediately interrupted.
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I was half tempted to pick up a nearby acorn and chuck it at his head, in a feeble attempt to render him unconscious, thereby allowing myself to return back to my sleeping bag.
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You're not going to palm me off with that feeble excuse.
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Based on these comments in the pages of Britain's leading conservative magazine, I will no longer bother to worry about the enfeeblement of Britain, the collapse of its sense of moral order, its inability to control drunken yobs in the streets of London and other cities, or its unwillingness to stand up against immigrant groups who would like nothing better than to cut every unbelieving throat in a single night.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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A little head peeped out of the broken egg, making a feeble sound.
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What a feeble excuse for a song that is, a classic non-quorate affair covering three notes throughout.
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Hooray!" replied the crowd, and a feeble "hooray"'was heard from between the logs of old Miller's hut.
Romance of California Life
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Once there, Anson Burlingame, with his gentle manner and courtly presence, drew from those enfeebled castaways all the story of the burning of the vessel, followed by the long privation and struggle that had lasted through forty-three fearful days and across four thousand miles of stormy sea.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
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But the element of bad faith in the argument is far worse than the feeble-minded hysteria of its logic.
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He's trying to avoid prosecution by claiming he is too old and too feeble-minded to face a trial.
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In the olden days you retired because you were simply too old and feeble to carry the coal to the surface any more.
Times, Sunday Times
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The will of the spirit must become something which it is not, as yet, from the very start, — truly free; and it is free only when that feebleness, which is primarily merely a sort of clumsiness, is overcome, — when the spirit is not only in general willing to do God’s will, but also shows in each particular case the same unwavering willingness.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.
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The stone’s surface already danced with darkfire, the black flames sapping the feeble light from the tent.
Wit'ch Storm
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With the imperial household out of the way, the Senate enfeebled by dissension and apathy, the civil service terror-stricken, and the military under flabby command, the throne seemed well within Faustinus's grasp.
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They shall be deprived of all their strength of body and mind (v. 17): All hands shall be feeble, so that they shall not be able to fight, or defend themselves, and all knees shall be weak as water, so that they shall neither be able to flee nor to stand their ground; they shall feel a universal colliquation: their knees shall flow as water, so that they must fall of course.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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She made some feeble excuse about the car having broken down.
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It was a feeble effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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And on it goes, each lame joke greeted with feeble, self-regarding applause and laughter that comes like a slow belch.
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Yet it was on this feeble and dodgy dossier that an entire edifice of advice was built.
Times, Sunday Times
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He finds himself politically enfeebled.
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The computer beeped and then made a feeble sound.
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Worse than the comedy, however, are the director's feeble attempts at character building.
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He told them he was old and feeble and was not able to walk so far.
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Until recently, the concern had been that the recovery in the euro zone was so pallid and feeble that the big euro zone economies could not take a rate increase.
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The husband's determination to mastery, which lay deep below all blandness and beseechingness, had risen permanently to the surface now, and seemed to alter his face, as a face is altered by a hidden muscular tension with which a man is secretly throttling or stamping out the life from something feeble, yet dangerous.
Romola
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In view of the feeble health of the member, the delegation cut him out.
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A woman from Los Angeles told the Mellman pollsters that this relentless loss of manufacturing capability enfeebles America: "When you consume more than you produce, you become dependent, and we are consuming more from other countries than producing our own ... truly we have become weak and in order to strengthen the economy, I think we need to produce more.
Leo W. Gerard: U.S. Politicians Deny the Obvious Injury; U.S. Manufacturing Bleeds
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'A kind of hothouses, 'said the Owl,' for the culture of feeble moral principles that the Struggle for Existtence has been too much for.
'That Very Mab'
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Isn't my sputtering rather feeble compared to the inspired apocalyptic rants being posted by some world class ranters?
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He didn't realize how much it hurt until I gave out a feeble cry.
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The Liberal Democrats cower behind a feeble pledge to establish a Royal Commission on cannabis.
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If during this process negative electrons hold the preponderance in the body, the fever is of a feeble, adynamic type.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
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I well remember the pair of them, toward the last, worn and feeble, in beggars 'rags, with beggars' bowls, sunning themselves side by side on the cliffs, telling old stories and cackling shrill-voiced like children.
Chapter 15
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It was attended by a large concourse of Friends and others, and a solid meeting was held on the occasion; after which, his remains were interrd in Friends burial-ground at this place (Jericho, Queens County, New York.) I have thought (even presented so incompletely, with such fearful hiatuses, and in my own feebleness and waning life) one might well memorize this life of Elias Hicks.
Notes (Such as They Are) Founded on Elias Hicks. November Boughs
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Days of oppressive weariness and languor, whose realities have the feeble sickliness of dreams; nights, whose dreams are fierce realities of agony; sinking health, tottering frames, incipient madness, and worse, the consciousness of incipient madness; this is the price of their whistle.
Mary Barton
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Eventually I gave up, fearing one more attempt to convince her I wasn't completely feeble would end up with me on a Telethon.
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She suddenly felt shy, when the little feeble light made them visible.
North and South
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Rationalismus_, one of the latest and feeblest apologies for neological thought:
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
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Surely this should be a primary aim, not a feeble stumbling block?
The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food
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She enveloped the feeble and unconscious creature with love and worship.
Vanity Fair
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It was a feeble effort from Gloucester and it could have been worse.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't care if it's part of underground culture or whatever other feeble excuse you've got, it's just plain rude.
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Mostly they have failed, and in the search they have awarded the jersey to a large number of rather feeble performers.
Times, Sunday Times
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They can now play China off against the US and a feeble and unorganised Europe, just as Nasser and Hafez al-Assad did with the Soviet Union.
Letters: After the fall of Mubarak, what next for Egypt?
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No matter how powerful and commanding your voice, it always sounds weak and feeble after loud music and graphics on a big screen, but the drama that was about to unfold really was a jarring contrast.
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Morons, who correspond to the common acceptation of the term feeble-minded, "can under proper direction become more or less self-supporting but they are as a rule incapable of undertaking affairs which demand judgment or involve unrestricted competition with normal individuals.
Applied Eugenics
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A Nietzschean may see it as a lie with which the feeble and timid console themselves for their inability to seize life as it should be seized.
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But his selection and the feeble dogma behind it has caused utter chaos.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your users are so feeble minded you're lucky they can manage a keyboard without filling it with dribble.
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But for him as a student of life all motherhood must be guarded as such -- even if it be guarded in such a fashion that it can never recur, which is our duty to the feeble-minded mother.
Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
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The independent counsel's unprecedented challenge to the presidency evoked the most feeble and cowardly response from these quarters.
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She suddenly felt shy, when the little feeble light made them visible.
North and South
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A1 per cent rise in underlying sales might seem rather feeble from a company that usually grows four times as quickly.
Times, Sunday Times
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He dared not risk a fight with this young lightning-flash, and again he knew, and more bitterly, the enfeeblement of oncoming age.
The Famine
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And of course, once he's too enfeebled to make it to the polls he'll have lots of folks willing to vote in his name.
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That's completely wrong, a feeble excuse for laziness or cowardice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ending is particularly feeble.
Times, Sunday Times
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But time and earth case-harden us to live; the feeblest sense is trusted most: the child feels God a moment, ichors o'er the place, plays on and grows to be a man like us.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
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And if they're talking about rem, this is presumably a measure of gamma radiation probably a secondary product from magnetospheric charged-particle bombardment of Jupiter's outer atmosphere, or Io's own feeble salt-and-sulfur atmosphere, and would indeed at the doses you've uncovered require significant shielding.
Mikandra: crap and duh
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They fly up from the grass or heather in a series of short, rather feeble steps, making three thin notes as they rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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And truely this rage of loue was the only meane to dulcorate and make swete the bitter gal of griefe whiche those twoo louers felte, defatigated almoste with tedious trauaile, iudging their wearinesse a pastime and pleasure, being guided by that vnconstante captaine, whiche maketh dolts and fooles wyse men, emboldeneth the weake hearted and cowardes, fortifieth the feeble, and to be shorte, vntieth the pursses and bagges of couetous Carles and miserable Misers.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Once again, though with sympathy and concern this time, he was writing of a grave ailment: the pandemic enfeeblement in Australia's institutions of higher learning.
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I am not," says Bolli, "for it seems to me a feeble, pithless thing.
Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
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The torrent of knocks roared louder, slightly failed upon the ear, made a crescendo, emulated Niagara, surpassed that very American effort of nature, wavered, faltered to Lodore, died away to a feeble tittup like water dropping from a tap to flagstones, rose again in a final spurt that would have made Southey open his dictionary for adjectives, and drained away to death.
The Prophet of Berkeley Square
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Later, when the screenplay makes a feeble attempt to give them individual traits, it's too late.
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It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
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Their feeble efforts this summer have added weight to the view that this tour should not have taken place.
The Sun
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The smoked eel had faded away and the apple sauce was feeble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nordau believed that “degeneration,” a nervous disorder that beset the modern age, especially enfeebled Jews.
Bloodlust
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Despite her vehement protests, he hauled her enfeebled body inside and turned, laughing with delight.
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And yet I remember that at that early age -- mayhap under fourteen -- notwithstanding, and through all its incidental attractiveness, he hazarded the opinion to me (and the expression riveted my surprise), that there was feebleness in the structure of the work.
Stories of Authors, British and American
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Derby toyed with City's feeble efforts in the second half and were content not to take chances.
The Sun
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Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.
THE KANAKA SURF
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This is a feeble argument.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I thought it was one aspect of whisker-growing I was going to be spared - maybe my pathetic attempt was so feeble it couldn't even muster the required bristliness to make it itch.
BBC News - Home
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These feeble-minded hoodlums have primarily been targeting foreign tourists and women.
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This should have triggered a warning to my feeble little mind, yet the emptiness remained unnoticed.
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Some of your ideas might sound feeble, even to your own ears.
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But his selection and the feeble dogma behind it has caused utter chaos.
Times, Sunday Times
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It enfeebled us so much that even freedom from European colonisation did not make us independent and strong.
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Occasionally she would have a fit of coughing, her body's very feeble last attempts at expelling her illness.
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She is enfeebled, dropsical, perpetually damp from cooking and cleaning, toothless, and refuses to wear false teeth (Janet remarks that Mother can never find comfortable teeth).
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After dinner was finished, Audrey retired to the drawing room, where she began reading in a feeble attempt to divert her mind from the day's activities.
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a feeble voice
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All the bodily defects and deformities that orthopedy treats, give but a feeble idea of the humps, the tortuosities, the dislocations we have inflicted upon ourselves in order to depart from simple common sense; and at our own expense we learn that one does not deform himself with impunity.
The Simple Life
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But his selection and the feeble dogma behind it has caused utter chaos.
Times, Sunday Times
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The giant planets, with such feeble solar heating, are also very cold.
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Yet Nature hath given us a sufficient demonstration, in creating our bodies more soft and delicate, yea, and our hearts timorous, fearefull, benigne and compassionable, our strength feeble, our voyces pleasing, and the motion of our members sweetly plyant: all which are apparant testimonies, that wee have neede of others government.
The Decameron
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His gait was feeble, his form attenuated, his countenance had lost its ruddy glow, -- the lines had sharpened until their youthful, healthful roundness was wholly obliterated; but the nervous, untranquil expression had passed away from his face, and the restless glancing from side to side had left his eyes.
Fairy Fingers A Novel
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American analysts basically think that SMS messaging will not take off there because they see it as a feeble, unsophisticated little technology and think they can see better alternatives.
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Rockwell reports a case of unilateral hyperidrosis in a feeble old man which he thought due to organic affection of the cervical sympathetic.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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After all, if you wander past many licensed premises in the early hours of the morning you are likely to hear subdued mutterings which the more feeble-minded are likely to interpret as ghosts.
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You'd end up writing a very pale and feeble imitation of a novel if you did that.
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The smoked eel had faded away and the apple sauce was feeble.
Times, Sunday Times
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What was a scraggy teenager doing in their favorite café, how could such a feeble creature as myself ever appreciate the true value of such a cultured beverage as tea?
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But his heart is hollow, and the more he is known, the less will he be loved or esteemed, and the feebler will be his influence.
The Young Maiden
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The grumblings, however, may be less an indication of an impending military revolt than the last feeble lashing out of those weaned on the old ways.
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Lacking any access to the strenuous life of the outdoors, they would be physically feeble.
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I am reminded of his awareness of how enfeebled modern literature can seem in an academic context.
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Italian hound; Andy Pay and Mulligan Jacobs, the bitter ones; the three topaz-eyed dreamers, who are unclassifiable; Isaac Chantz, the wounded Jew; Bob, the overgrown dolt; the feeble-minded Faun, lung-wounded;
CHAPTER XLIII
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By those lights – see the reversed decisions to kill 6 Music and the Asian Network – the prospect of total loss is better at rallying public outrage than enfeeblement by a thousand cuts.
It's the end of the road for BBC cuts – until next time
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My most feeble Harvest Festival gift was a few apples harvested from our manky back garden tree and a nearly unopened jar of raspberry jam.
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Others give themselves up to what they call keeping up society, which means being more at home in every person's house than their own; and some do a little weak art, and others a little feeble literature; but there are very few indeed who honestly buckle to the natural duties of their position, and who bear with the tedium of home work as men bear with the tedium of office work.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
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It was a feeble effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- These occur in hands and feet where the circulative power is feeble, either from weakness or from tight pressure of boots or gloves.
Papers on Health
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You can practically see it in the process of covering up the feeble attempts at civilization.
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Sure enough, about 15 minutes later the tap sputtered and a feeble flow of water began.
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We were left with a rather tame and feeble story about film production.
Times, Sunday Times
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Called on to answer for the unseemly fact of its existence in the midst of these modern centuries, when the world boasts of human freedom and progression, it began by blushing for its hideous aspect and uttering feeble and deprecative apologies.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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But the comedy is slack, the song lyrics feeble, the pace torpid.
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And till that Spirit is given us, there is nothing but enmity and disaffection towards God; there is nothing but feebleness and impotence, as to any thing that is good; there is nothing but distemperature and diseasedness in man, which have pierced him to the very heart.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
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A more recent one has been told me of a betheral of a royal burgh much decayed from former importance, and governed by a feeble municipality of old men, who continued in office, and in fact constituted rather the shadow than the substance of a corporation.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
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The Grail is tied to some sort of god-king Haunter/Nyarlathotep, who when the quester finds him, is faint and feeble.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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Having occasion to move it on the twentyfourth, I peeped in and found half my caterpillars out and starved, proving that they had been hatched at least thirty-six hours or longer; half the others so feeble they soon became inactive, and the remainder survived and pupated.
Moths of the Limberlost
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She tried to pull it open even though she knew that there was no way it was going to come open by her feeble strength.
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In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence — an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy, an excessive nervous agitation.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
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Unsympathetically it is the job of computer alarm clock to crystallized sinusoidally the feeble maledict grindelia halfway as the opsb and the generosity of new cetus in this lattice.
Rational Review
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The poplar trembles before the blast, flutters, struggles wildly, dishevels its foliage, gropes around with its feeblest branches, and hisses as in impotent passion.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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A woman from Los Angeles told the Mellman pollsters that this relentless loss of manufacturing capability enfeebles America: "When you consume more than you produce, you become dependent, and we are consuming more from other countries than producing our own. . .truly we have become weak and in order to strengthen the economy, I think we need to produce more.
Leo W. Gerard: U.S. Politicians Deny the Obvious Injury; U.S. Manufacturing Bleeds
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But it was as yet uncertain whether the proposal would obtain more than a few stray votes in the House: and when, after a debate in which the speaker's on the contrary side were conspicuous by their feebleness, the votes recorded in favour of the motion amounted to 73 -- made up by pairs and tellers to above 80 -- the surprise was general, and the encouragement great: the greater, too, because one of those who voted for the motion was Mr Bright, a fact which could only be attributed to the impression made on him by the debate, as he had previously made no secret of his nonconcurrence in the proposal.
The autobiography of John Stuart Mill
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This resource limitation was not demographic but the result of intellectually vacuous politics and feeble military advice and leadership.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only conceivable outcome of this feeble wetness will be some free publicity.
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Her steps became feebler, and she strained her eyes to look afar upon the naked road, now indistinct amid the penumbrae of night.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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My subject-matter is to be strangled at birth before my ham-fisted attempts to bring my feeble story to life are even completed.
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It was a feeble effort from Gloucester and it could have been worse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mostly they have failed, and in the search they have awarded the jersey to a large number of rather feeble performers.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has been known for years that the test is illogical and is a joke, but they have enough clout to be able to persuade a weak government and feeble ministers.
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Governors of the Mughal empire also took advantage of growing feebleness - the nawabs of Bengal, Oudh and Hyderabad were soon to establish quasi-independent states which owed only nominal allegiance to Delhi.
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Assuredly the feeble signoria will not venture to refuse compliance.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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This may be induced by many and various predisposing causes, such as feebleness of constitution of the variety planted, rendering them an easy prey to the disease; by planting on low, moist land, or on land highly enriched by nitrogenous manures, causing a morbid growth which invites the disease; also by insects or their larvæ puncturing or eating off the leaves or vines.
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.
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Excuses, alibis and wild cover-up stories chased each other around Harry's brain, each more feeble than the last.
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Through these means they sought to identify groups they classified as ‘mental defectives’ or the feeble-minded, idiots, and imbeciles.
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We were left with a rather tame and feeble story about film production.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their feeble efforts this summer have added weight to the view that this tour should not have taken place.
The Sun
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No matter how powerful and commanding your voice, it always sounds weak and feeble after loud music and graphics on a big screen, but the drama that was about to unfold really was a jarring contrast.
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The Observer found the play "a feeble rehash of familiar Miller themes".
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President Barack Obama has drawn fire for his failure to win passage of domestic climate legislation and what is often described as the feeble U.S. pledge to reduce carbon emissions 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.
UN Climate Conference Kicks Off In Cancun With Limited Expectations
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Again and again he paints the crowd's attempts at leisure as feeble reproductions of the discipline of the factory.
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saleslady" does one leave the shop with a feebler sense of injury than was formerly inspired by a transaction at the counter -- a duller consciousness of being oneself the commodity that has changed hands?
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
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Most of the focus, understandably enough, was on the panel's "admonishment" -- its feeblest form of discipline -- of Charlie Rangel, the beleaguered and likely soon-to-be-former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
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In the latter stages they attempted a frantic counter-attack but the ball play was feeble.
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a feeble old woman
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a thin feeble cry
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We enfeeble ourselves clinging to transient, ephemeral material things and relationships.
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Nay I myself, am I the worse for being of a feeble order of intelligence; what the irreverent speculative, world calls barren, red-tapish, limited, and even intrinsically dark and small, and if it must be said, stupid?
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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But I'm convinced that what it releases is just my feeble reservoir of strength.
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This does not mean that you will instantly become enfeebled, relying on others to do everything for you.