How To Use Feebly In A Sentence
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I stopped pacing and started running feebly, my heart now racing in fear, the sounds in the woods growing incredibly loud and frightening.
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‘It's nothing I can't handle,’ she croaked feebly and Randy chuckled at the grating sound her voice made.
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I ventured feebly to say that I did not see how progress could be made in any art or science, or indeed in anything at all, without more or less self-seeking, and hence unamiability.
Erewhon
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So for days I ate turkey, feebly rationalizing that I wouldn't add the evil of waste to the evil of the murder of the poor birds, who by then were beyond pain.
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But then I remembered that it had died of paralysis and I felt that I too was smiling feebly as if to absolve the simoniac of his sin.
Dubliners
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She glimpsed her mother lying feebly on a divan with a wrinkled, pallid face.
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In the evening, while I sagged feebly on a kitchen chair, she breaded cutlets, and sliced tomato and cucumber on to a glass dish.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Ignoring the water, it came straight to Sandy, uttered a harsh whine, catching at the leather tassel on the cowman's worn leather chaparejos, tugging feebly.
Rimrock Trail
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Then followed an amoeboid and uncertain form, with an increased intensity of action which lasted a few moments, when lassitude supervened, then perfect stillness of the body, which is now globular in form, while the flagellum feebly lashed, and then fell upon and fused with the substance of the sarcode.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
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His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical, and the additions which he makes are of little value.
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
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When something is badly organised, awkwardly structured and feebly managed, the inquiries and inquisitions commence.
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He had been hoping that his triode tube would produce amplification of the signal, something highly desirable given the feebly transmitted radio signals of the day.
The Nature of Technology
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I struck out feebly in self-defence and hit him across the chest, which increased his rage.
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Jason walked around the corner; his best friend was feebly holding onto the stall door, smiling weakly at him.
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A watery sky, breached feebly by the occasional half-hearted sunrays on a grey leaden afternoon, seemed to catch the essential gloom that had descended on this region of North Galway.
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If a philosophy lacks this living fundamentwhich is usually a sign that the ideal principle too was originally only feebly at work in itit loses itself in the kind of system whose attenuated concepts of aseity, modifications, etc., stand in sharpest contrast to the vital force and fullness of reality.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
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One of his gossamer wings had been snapped off and the other was bent at a sharp angle, the many broken nerves causing it to twitch feebly.
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But, to confess to you the truth, the works and passages in which I have succeeded, have uniformly been written with the greatest rapidity; and when I have seen some of these placed in opposition with others, and commended as more highly finished, I could appeal to pen and standish, that the parts in which I have come feebly off, were by much the more laboured.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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I said "Sorry", very feebly, feeling rather embarrassed.
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The first, or Golden Age, is described as a paradisiacal state, feebly representing the bliss of the first pair in
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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He ground the heel of his shoe into the feebly sparking wire and scowled.
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I am sure that we schoolmasters have many faults; but we are really trying to do better, and, as I said before, I only wish that a man of Kipling's genius had held out to us a helping hand, instead of giving us a push back into the ugly slough of usherdom, out of which many good fellows, my friends and colleagues, have, however feebly, been struggling to emerge.
The Upton Letters
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So he is forced into a feebly slow, piecemeal approach to an issue where boldness above all is required.
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When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
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I tried again to heave up, flailing my arms feebly, without success - and now my dream came back to me, half-understood, and I knew from the numbness of my limbs that this was no ordinary waking ...
Watershed
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The girls' high-street finery, a Lycra mishmash of tat and glitter, sparkles feebly under red, yellow and purple neon strip lights.
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The bizarre navy-blue apron and officious change from high heels to dominatrix flats is the only forlorn remnant of any concept of service, feebly shored up by the unctuousness of the scripted public address announcements.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The disease of the body may cause disease in the soul; yet not the less trust we in the mercy of the merciful -- not the less strive we to keep feeding and trimming that spiritual lamp which is within us, even when it flickers feebly in the dampy gloom, like an earthly lamp left in a vaulted sepulchre, about to die among the dead.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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Paddling, wheezing, resting, oblivious of the shadow-world of the white men, knowing only the reality of Tulagi Mountain cutting its crest-line blackly across the dim radiance of the star-sprinkled sky, the reality of the sea and of the canoe he so feebly urged across it, and the reality of his fading strength and of the death into which he would surely end, the ancient black man slowly made his shoreward way.
CHAPTER 2
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I said feebly that my husband dealt with that sort of thing - I was hopeless at filling in forms.
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the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway
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One of his gossamer wings had been snapped off and the other was bent at a sharp angle, the many broken nerves causing it to twitch feebly.
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His left hand moved feebly at his side, as if fending off the unexpected sorrow and unlooked-for guilt.
THE LAST RAVEN
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reform, in fact, is, rather feebly, on the win
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Hathorne feebly lifted one of the jade pieces and moved it diagonally to the edge of the board.
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Christian bats feebly at a small plague of gnats haloing his head and the damp air bonds to his skin and his muscles ache from sitting too long.
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exalt" the virulence of a feebly pathogenic organism, special methods of inoculation are necessary, carefully adjusted to the exigencies of each individual case.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
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What, (though but feebly felt and dimly seen) -- what do we yet owe to Thee if Knowledge be now a Power; if MIND be a Prophet and a Fate, foretelling and foredooming the things to come!
Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes
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Origen: Or, Whilst the bridegroom "tarried," and the Word comes not speedily to the consummation of this life, the senses suffer, slumbering and moving in the night of the world; and sleep, as energizing feebly, and with no quick sense.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
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A half-dead chicken squawked feebly as it was yanked from its perch.
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Even there, in too many of the pipes, the water trickles out so feebly as to be useless.
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At his side on the Barcalounger is his still-smokin 'blackberry so that he can feebly continue his pathetic damage control -- or, if his track record is any indication, he's still reaching out to other girls for comfort.
Vicki Iovine: Girlfriends' Guide: Tiger Woods Is A Baby, But His Wife Does A Real Man's Work
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Emerson himself said, "I think that my very feebleness is the cause of my long life, for when the hard blow of disease struck my vigorous brother Charles he had not power to receive it, and fell, while I feebly bowed like the willow to the gust, and survived.
The Enduring Greatness of Newer Nations
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(daß es in dem Zimmer spuke), for something invisible to the eye had risen up from the corner with a sound as if it had been lying on straw, and slowly and feebly, but with distinct steps, crossed the room and sank down moaning and groaning behind the stove.
Reading, Begging, Paul de Man
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I said "Sorry", very feebly, feeling rather embarrassed.
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The wood caught, but it burned feebly.
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I ventured feebly to say that I did not see how progress could be made in any art of science, or indeed in anything at all, without more or less self-seeking, and hence unamiability.
Erewhon; or, Over the range
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For processing fine, feebly magnetic minerals, such as hematite, limonite, ilmenite, wolframite, tantalumniobium, red sludge and etc.
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Feebly she made her way onto the front porch and sank down on the top step.
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So he is forced into a feebly slow, piecemeal approach to an issue where boldness above all is required.
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When she feebly started to push herself upright they jumped back and whispered to each other.
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After three days of recuperation in the ICU, I was released from the hospital, walking feebly and trying to salve my ego.
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He was swishing it in each time and slowly strolling to the ball, which bounced feebly once when it hit the surface and remained inert.
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Smiling feebly, Mundin stood silent just when I needed him to bring in the cavalry and rescue my besieged story.
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Seconds later, Toby knocked feebly on the frame of the screen door.
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In it was a litter of blind kittens — all dead save one, that feebly mewed and staggered on awkward legs.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
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A rataplan on a side-drum feebly played in the street outside!
Pushed and the Return Push
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A moment more, and -- as he saw Sandy step out of the "bateau" with the boy, now sobbing feebly, in his arms -- he knew that his vengeance had been made for ever impossible.
Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
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Smiling feebly, Mundin stood silent just when I needed him to bring in the cavalry and rescue my besieged story.
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Her hands clutched feebly around the silky pillowcase and her parched throat just barely managed to utter a low pain filled moan.
