How To Use Infirmity In A Sentence
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Those evils of Athens then, which were found in very deed somewhat later to be the infirmity of Greece as a whole, when, though its versatile gifts of intellect might constitute it the teacher of its eventual masters, it was found too incoherent politically to hold its own against Rome: -- those evils of Athens, of Greece, came from an exaggerated assertion of the fluxional, flamboyant, centrifugal Ionian element in the Hellenic character.
Plato and Platonism
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Shyness hitherto had been no infirmity of this young Canadian; but Bertie somehow had mesmerized her into a state of consciousness -- it was a cobwebby kind of fetter, but the first she had worn.
Bluebell A Novel
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I have heard him called inconstant of purpose — when he deserted, for the sake of love, the hope of sovereignty, and when he abdicated the protectorship of England, men blamed his infirmity of purpose.
The Last Man
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So that Paul instead of desiring the infirmity to "depart," "rather" henceforth "glories in infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest (Greek, 'tabernacle upon,' cover my infirmity all over as with a tabernacle; compare Greek, Joh 1: 12) upon" him.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Although Mr. Lillyworth knew very well that Pink Mulgrum was deaf and dumb, he "jawed" at him as though his hearing was as perfect as his own, doubtless forgetting for the moment his infirmity.
On The Blockade
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The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
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Of course, there's no denying the fact that infirmity coupled with sickness will always stalk the retirees and seize every opportunity to pounce on us.
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Home visits are also possible for those people who are unable to access the sessions because of ill-health, infirmity or care commitments.
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Health expenses means expenditure on the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of illness, injury, infirmity or disability.
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O ay, easily to be spoken withal, that is, as easily as his infirmity will permit.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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We find record of his election as subprior again in 1448, and doubtless he remained in office until age and infirmity procured him release.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Ficinus Comment, cap. 9; naturally melancholy less than they, but once taken they are never freed; though many are of opinion flatuous or hypochondriacal melancholy are most subject of all others to this infirmity.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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If the Lord now calls me to a period of weakness, I know well that his power can be made perfect in infirmity.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
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In spite of his age and infirmity, he still writes plays and novels.
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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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Between the bars of the rabbit hutch she thrust enough greenstuff to last the two little occupants for days; and everywhere she went she was accompanied by a legless magpie, which, in spite of its infirmity, hopped cheerily and quickly on its stumps.
The Getting of Wisdom
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It is not easy to believe that others are more successful, but the popular renown of the specific survives in spite of all, probably thanks to a simple accident of identity between the name of the remedy and that of the infirmity: the Provençal for "chilblain" is _tigno_.
Social Life in the Insect World
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St. Gertrude was once saying the Divine Office with the other virgins of her monastery, and was striving to pronounce every word attentively, but since she was often distracted through human infirmity, she said mournfully to herself, "And what fruit can be derived from this endeavour, which is combined with so much inconstancy?
Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois
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I suspect this is true for the majority of people: to accept help because of infirmity may seem an admission of defeat.
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He, despite these daughterly attentions, is perceived by the Colonel to be in ‘a condition of pitiable infirmity’.
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Old age and infirmity had begun to catch up with him.
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Caesar [Commentaries on the Gallic War, 4,5], "The infirmity of the Gauls is that they are fickle in their resolves and fond of change, and not to be trusted.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Before a noun beginning with a vowel thine and mine are commonly substituted for thy and my, as in thine eyes and mine infirmity.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun
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My infirmity was the principal cause which prevented me from mixing in polite companies, and enjoying the conversation of the fair.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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I was no longer morbid; I would not allow myself to feel that my infirmity was a bar to the enjoyment of life; yet, all the same, I dreaded society and shrank from the fresh conviction of inferiority I was certain to experience in going out with Harry, who was strongest where I was so weak.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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Our collective cultural belief is that aging brings illness and infirmity, along with a loss of status for women.
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However, it may be a legitimate determiner, since physical disability may stem from, but not be limited to, the following factors: birth defect, infirmity, malformation, disfigurement, illness or bodily injury.
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In a position of weakness, ’driven by infirmity and want to conveniency,’ Osborn ‘retreats’ to make her closet her bed.
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This year unfortunately some of our volunteers are unable to help us through illness or infirmity and two of our younger members have moved away from the area.
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We all fear disability or infirmity.
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Unfortunately, Withington's not the stuff that heroes are made of and seems not to have improved with age and increasing infirmity.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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His high and wrinkled forehead, piercing grey eyes, and marked features, evinced age unbroken by infirmity, and stern resolution unsoftened by humanity.
Old Mortality
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Here they waited some little time while the marriage party enrolled themselves; and meanwhile the wheezy little pew – opener — partly in consequence of her infirmity, and partly that the marriage party might not forget her — went about the building coughing like a grampus.
Dombey and Son
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Whoever causes bodily pain, disease or infirmity to any person is said to cause hurt.
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The claimant's interpretation gives the clause a more tautological aspect in as much as it would have the tendency to treat the condition and the physical infirmity or illness as the same thing.
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You may have noticed, a riding boot greatly eases my infirmity.
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The previous October her first full retrospective exhibition in the United States had opened at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and despite infirmity Krasner traveled to Texas for the opening.
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Before a noun beginning with a vowel thine and mine are commonly substituted for thy and my, as in thine eyes and mine infirmity.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun
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Given their age and infirmity lots of these people have since expired - naturally - over the years.
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Though human infirmity may betray thy heedless days into the popular ways of extravagancy, yet, let not thine own depravity or the torrent of vicious times carry thee into desperate enormities in opinions, manners, or actions.
Letter to a Friend
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She had been a soldier's wife, and had seen the world; infirmity, induced by fevers caught in unwholesome quarters, had come on her before its time, and she seldom moved from her little cot.
II.8
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It defines what it means to be civilised in uncivilised times, testifies to the healing properties of a sense of the ridiculous and hints that inner cheer can face down physical infirmity.
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Some old people have lost all their teeth, and others have but few left; and this infirmity is the more considerable because the meat, not being well chewed, for want of teeth, is not well digested, which has as much influence as any thing upon the other decays of age.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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The show looks good, and he makes a powerful and sympathetic Lear - though the decision to play him as a twitching stroke sufferer is distracting and overstresses his infirmity.
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Taylor killed on one occasion a lion who lost a fore limb in a trap, and the infirmity had turned him into a dangerous man eater.
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He overcame his infirmity
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Despite advancing years and a little infirmity - the statuesque Lady Healey was on crutches recently after a knee operation - her ‘eternal summer’ has not faded.
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We can put our fingers on the two great evils of life as it now is: the first is poverty; and the second is infirmity, which is the accompaniment of increasing years.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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Himself an indefatigable collector of books, the possessor of a library as valuable as it was interesting, a library containing volumes obtained only at the cost of great personal sacrifice, he was in the most active sympathy with the disease called bibliomania, and knew, as few comparatively poor men have known, the half-pathetic, half-humorous side of that incurable mental infirmity.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity.
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He methodised and regulated versification, insisting on rich and exact rhymes, condemning all licence and infirmity of structure, condemning harshness of sound, inversion, hiatus, negligence in accommodating the cesura to the sense, the free gliding of couplet into couplet.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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This is non-cosmetic, postponable but not exactly elective surgery; wait too long and one could end up in the E.R. getting the surgery and suffer lifetime infirmity ordeath.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Failing To Understand How Markets Work:
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That a man may, through infirmity, fall into some such sin as for it to be amoved from a church society (that amotion being an ordinance of Christ for his recovery from that sin), I know not that it can be reasonably questioned.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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It is certainly possible for an anxious straining ingenuity to _imagine_ such cases; and where is the rule of law, which, in the infirmity of human institutions, cannot be shown capable of occasioning _possible_ mischief and injustice?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
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That is to say it did not stem from any inherent infirmity or weakness or deficiency.
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His disease was grievous: He had an infirmity, a weakness; he had lost the use of his limbs, at least on one side, as is usual in palsies.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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That's generally a good indication of mental infirmity.
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Common-wealth wee further charge and command by the vertue of our absolute authority, that no man bee found winking, or pincking, or nodding, much lesse snorting, upon paine of forfaiting twelve pence, as for infirmity.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
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faintness of heart and infirmity of purpose
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The rest were made up of unfortunate women of the vilest and most ragged description, aged itinerants, with features seared with famine, bleared eyes, dropping jaws, shivering limbs, and all the mortal signs of hopeless and aidless, and, worst of all, breadless infirmity.
Pelham — Complete
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The occasion of her return to her parents was probably his increasing age and infirmity, as the only impression she retained of him in after life was that of a somewhat crusty and ill-tempered old man, with a huge bobwig, who always laid in bed.
Religion in Earnest
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If no skyborn messenger, heaven looking through his eyes; then neither is it a chimera with his systems, crotchets, cants, fanaticisms, and last infirmity of noble minds, full of misery, unrest and ill-will; but a substantial, peaceable, terrestrial man.
Paras. 25-49
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The bothering and begging are exhaustive and unremitting, and the beggars world-beating in their decrepitude and infirmity.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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)
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That is to say it did not stem from any inherent infirmity or weakness or deficiency.
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our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses
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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.
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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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Too early death, or severe infirmity, or excessive distance could eliminate any possibility of a significant relationship.
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A human infirmity, though; and I'm feeling for the poor sinner myself being tempted -- that is to say inclining -- but thank the Lord for his strengthening arm ----
The Manxman A Novel - 1895
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In those circumstances, therefore, I am not satisfied that the disablement, albeit being physical infirmity or illness, did not arise directly or indirectly from a condition which first came into existence after 28 July.
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Should it be admitted that Moses here imprecated utter destruction on himself, it could not be alleged as a precept given to direct others, but only as a solitary incident, in the history of a saint, who was then compassed with infirmity.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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Clients are people who are unable to use regular public transport because of physical and sometimes mental disability or infirmity.
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The geographer, it appears, was afflicted with a peculiar squint of the eyes, hence the name strabismus, which the modern oculist applies to that particular infirmity.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
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It is just as meaningful to speak of levels of vitality and healthfulness as of debility and infirmity.
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Lognar tried as best he could to maintain a stern and uncompromising demeanor with this enemy of his people, but was plainly worn out by his exertions and his obvious physical infirmity.
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Each may provide assistance in times of infirmity or sickness or in the provision of baby-sitting or other services.
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He who counts himself perfect, must deceive himself by calling sin infirmity (1Jo 1: 8); at the same time, each must aim at perfection, to be a Christian at all
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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`Did the post-mortem on Leonard Pearson reveal any infirmity or disability?
THE BOOK LADY
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His attitude was doubtless due to his physical infirmity, which prevented him from being either an observer or an experimenter.
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Age and infirmity seem to be overlooked in what she calls the harmony between us, -- not perfect agreement of opinion (which I should regret, with almost fifty years of difference), but the spirit-union: can you say what it is?
Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time
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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
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The organisation aims to provide financial and practical assistance to people in the Cricklade area who need support because of illness or infirmity.
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One thing is clear - the New Testament teaches that believers will suffer physical infirmity in this fallen world.
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Old age and infirmity had begun to catch up with him.
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It is just as meaningful to speak of levels of vitality and healthfulness as of debility and infirmity.
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A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, accross 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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There are other possibilities: insufficient exercise, unsuitable food, old age and infirmity, or genetic weaknesses.
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The love of it clung to him to the last moments of his life; but tho he felt that last infirmity of noble minds, never did there breathe a human being who had a more lofty disdain for the shallow and treacherous popularity which is to be courted by subserviency, and purchased at the expense of principle and duty.
On Catholic Relief
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Many owners have found they were no longer able to use them as they got older because ill health or infirmity prevented them from travelling.
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Each may provide assistance in times of infirmity or sickness or in the provision of baby-sitting or other services.
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Down to Santiago, where a telegram waited him from the Emperor of Brazil announcing his election to the Acadèmie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, a great honor about which Agassiz remarks: The distinction unhappily is usually a brevet of infirmity, or at least of old age, and in my case it is to a falling house that the diploma is addressed.
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
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Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such motions as men sometimes would, but cannot, if either they have not the limbs, or these be bound with bands, weakened with infirmity, or any other way hindered.
The Confessions