单词 | enfeeble |
例句 | A form was near—what form, the pitch-dark night and my enfeebled vision prevented me from distinguishing. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Capitalizing on Mantell’s enfeebled state, Owen set about systematically expunging Mantell’s contributions from the record, renaming species that Mantell had named years before and claiming credit for their discovery for himself. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Back in the ward, he found his wife lying vanquished beneath the blankets like a desiccated old vegetable, wrinkled, dry and white, her enfeebled tissues absolutely still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Historically, fascist movements hardened into fascist regimes when given the opportunity by enfeebled conservative elites trying to cling to power, who resort to bringing in an outsider to rile up the base. The Debate Over the Word Fascism Takes a New Turn 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Johnson – an athlete once so supreme that he was known as Superman – was now enfeebled. Sprinter Michael Johnson on recovering from a stroke: ‘I did feel like, why did this happen to me?’ 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z We drank it together — two old, enfeebled souls with injured torsos. Being a caregiver for the elderly prematurely aged me 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z He was attacked by Sid Vicious wielding a bike chain in the 100 Club, and the effect on Kent's already enfeebled lifestyle was unsurprisingly "calamitous". Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir by Nick Kent | Book review 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z This is reassuring, I say, because, of course, Google Maps is enfeebling our innate abilities to find our way. ‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z “The power of language is no longer enfeebled by an impossibly deep and distant reality,” Harman writes. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z Mr. Stewart joked that CNN, like Britain, is a fallen and enfeebled world power. The TV Watch: A Sea of Network Giddiness on the Thames 2012-06-05T22:27:25Z “The fundamental liberal values, those of tolerance and respect for others, of decency, charity, and moderation, have been enfeebled in our public life,” Soskis said. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z By Nov. 11, 1918, it wasn’t much more than battered walls, enfeebled buttresses and rubble. The Legend and Lore of Notre-Dame de Reims 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z “The archbishop of Canterbury must be losing his enfeebled mind,” noted Chips Channon. Meghan and Harry's story is quite the drama, but it's no abdication crisis 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z She even writes instructions to her future, more enfeebled self. Julianne Moore works to find the person inside the struggle 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z So if anyone from the service happens to be reading this, allow me to suggest that it considers implementing the only radical measure possible in this age of enfeebled attention spans and multi-screening. Roma, Benny Hill style: why film-makers hate Netflix's fast-forward button 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z A painting from the time, “Depression,” shows enfeebled, isolated men with heads hung low, slumped shoulders and hesitant, directionless steps. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Even after being enfeebled by a stroke, when she had to be led on and off the stage, audiences responded with love and respect. An Appraisal: Voice and Career That Always Said, ?It Might as Well Be Spring? 2011-01-12T22:25:12Z Harvey Weinstein, a man who allegedly used his weight to pin women down, now appears gaunt and enfeebled, as if this is both a solution for his misdeeds and a punishment. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein looks sloppy and weak. Do you believe him? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z She won for one of the season’s most celebrated turns, as an enfeebled but tyrannical mother in “Three Tall Women.” Tony Awards 2018: ‘The Band’s Visit’ and ‘Harry Potter’ Prevail 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Could it suggest that the avant-garde, which was once seen as incendiary and subversive, is so enfeebled that it is reduced to the role of a real estate developers’ marketing ploy? Design: The Power, or Folly, of a Product's Name 2011-10-30T13:00:09Z And by there, I mean it's unabashed in its trashiness, making The Gates seem enfeebled by comparison. Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z Not enfeebled or emasculated, but sleek and effectual. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z Rather than magnifying or intensifying this powerful World War II symphony, it enfeebles it. A British organist reaches America by way of Reykjavik 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Their mother, in character as an enfeebled old man, watched and felt release — felt absolution. What to Do With an Absent Father? Cast Him as a Character Onstage. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Owen, especially, is a font of mirth, not only as Isabella but also as her extravagantly spoiled son, Little Linton, a creature so enfeebled by his cosseted upbringing that he’s practically boneless. Review: In This ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Music, Moors and Untamed Spirits 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z In the imaginations of their sore-winner, alpha dog-underdog opponents, the snobs are simultaneously too dangerous to ignore and too enfeebled to take seriously. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z But there were things the press did, particularly one TV network, in this period when Yeltsin had had a terrible heart attack and it looked like he was completely enfeebled. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z To regain her good will, her husband has pretended to be enfeebled by a heart attack, but when Maude says she forgives him, he confesses that he’s fine. William H. Tankersley, Watchdog for CBS Taste Standards, Dies at 98 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Increasingly enfeebled throughout, "God" finally dies in the third volume, though his priests continue to deny life in his name. Profile: Philip Pullman 2011-03-30T12:07:35Z Post-civil rights era, though, the enfeebled Klan moved into the realms of ridicule. From Birth of a Nation to BlacKkKlansman: Hollywood’s complex relationship with the KKK 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Our attention spans have become enfeebled along with our bladders, and anything that doesn’t help to arrest that slide could be accused of exacerbating it. Flicky leaks: when should you pee during long films? 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z He died late last year, but we found some extraordinary footage that shows him, a year or two ago, though enfeebled and poignantly reduced, still channelling his alien friend. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Years later, he pecked out “The Typewriter Manifesto,” a proclamation of the typospherians’ determination to resist the enfeebling aspects of the Internet Age. Viva la typewriter! 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z All too often, sex is regarded as a base activity liable to corrupt and enfeeble participants, having such intoxicating power it could annihilate an individual's work ethic. Don't give up sex, Matt Cardle 2010-12-15T18:01:47Z Perizad’s story, buoyed by Abdullina’s weary, yet searching gaze, achieves an emotional tenor that the preceding vignettes lack, enfeebled as they are by dialogue — and text messages — that announce precisely the issues at stake. ‘Materna’ Review: Mommy Issues 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Children are so enfeebled that heartsick pediatricians begin to kill themselves. After Disaster, Japan Seals Itself Off From the World in ‘The Emissary’ 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The self-importance of the sports media has long been one of the most loathsome aspects of our enfeebled Fourth Estate. The awesome dad move that smashed sports’ boys’ club: Stephen Curry’s MVP parenting: 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Blair enfeebled himself by being too weak to stand up to a chancellor who sabotaged his premiership. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z They fear that the enfeebling of the judiciary will compromise the rule of law and make the economy unattractive for investment. How Biden should address Israel’s judiciary crisis | Bobby Ghosh 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z From incendiary speeches about migrants and the jailing of his political opponents, to his deliberate enfeebling of parliament and the judiciary. Tunisia's El General: The rapper who helped bring down Ben Ali 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The attacks by the Mossi and Tuareg squeezed the enfeebled Malian Empire from the north and east. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The empire carried on in an enfeebled state, but over the ensuing decades, Chang’an ceded much military and civil authority to provincial warlords. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Xi next moved to reverse the neo-Maoist economic policies that had demoralized Chinese entrepreneurs and enfeebled the country’s tech and real estate sectors. Opinion | Xi’s course correction reveals an agile autocrat under pressure 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z For some reason, The Post discontinued this practice about the same time the regular order tradition itself was enfeebled. Opinion | What ‘Hamilton’ taught us about compromise 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The military will control the entire process and has spent the past two years enfeebling any credible opposition. Myanmar army leader touts election plan on Independence Day 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z His voice was a bit weak and his body enfeebled, but he remained possessed of what a critic called an “infernal apostolic manner.” Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Maduro’s larger goal is for Washington to lift all U.S. sanctions, allowing him to engage with the global economy, rebuild Venezuela’s dilapidated energy sector and restore its enfeebled economy. U.S. Allows Chevron to Expand Energy Operations in Venezuela 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z In a letter to Dr. Gabadadze and other deans, they wrote that they worried about setting “a precedent, completely lacking in due process, that could undermine faculty freedoms and correspondingly enfeeble proven pedagogic practices.” At N.Y.U., Students Were Failing Organic Chemistry. Who Was to Blame? 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z With the Italian left enfeebled and the idea of a broad centrist coalition government unpopular, pundits an opening for a conservative alternative. Meloni’s surge has far-right on the brink of power in Rome 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z The paradox is that trauma’s lingering impacts can enfeeble human connection, weakening even the strongest of social bonds. His PTSD, and My Struggle to Live With It 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s an image that evokes an enfeebling combination of envy and rage, as it becomes increasingly clear that the botters are perpetually one step ahead of our mere keyboards and mouses. The unstoppable machines behind the game console shortage 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Mahinda Rajapaksa, 76, a former president described as increasingly enfeebled by those who have seen him in recent months, felt sidelined by a younger brother he thought he had made president. A Ruling Family on the Run as Sri Lanka Plunges Into Economic Ruin 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z The problem for Kadhimi and his American friends is that, for now, Iraq remains enfeebled by corruption, political feuding and Iranian interference. Opinion | If the Iran nuclear deal fails, Iraq could suffer the fallout 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Backed by an expansive and brutal security system, Mr. Lukashenko shows no sign of losing his grip at home, if at the cost of becoming Mr. Putin’s enfeebled satrap. Once He Kept Russia at a Distance. Now He Is a Docile Putin Satrap. 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z By this time the Inquisition was enfeebled, its worst abuses a thing of the past. Perspective | Humiliation, cruelty, horror: Goya knew it all too well Their goal is to blunt and enfeeble criticism and distract from its truthfulness. Column: Mocking anti-vaxxers' deaths is ghoulish, yes — but necessary 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Until then, Republicans are largely relying on political paralysis, not out of any genuine conviction but, in Washington's words, "to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration." Why George Washington's Farewell Address has never been more important 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z National Institute on White Collar Crime, Monaco pinpointed several principles that enfeebled the department’s approach to corporate crime. Column: Lawbreaking corporations have wriggled off the hook for years. Can Biden fix that? 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z But every single one of us suffers from an enfeebled economy and a poorly functioning society. Opinion | Joe Manchin, This Is What We Can’t Afford 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Now, business groups are pushing to gut and delay enforcement of these already enfeebled protections. Let’s honor Labor Day by protecting workers 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z The Bosnian Serb threat to paralyse parliament and the presidency would carry more weight if those institutions were not already enfeebled by ethnic squabbling. Bosnian Serbs defy top UN official Inzko over genocide denial 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z The insurgents are sewing up the Afghan countryside, cutting off the road network, and squeezing the increasingly enfeebled central government. Selling Fruit Where the Taliban Stalk the Streets 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z He was apparently disappointed to learn that the "devastating retribution" he hoped for was not possible in a democracy, even an enfeebled one: What would America be like if Trump's coup had succeeded? Suppressing SNL is only the start 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The goal is to blunt criticism and enfeeble the opposition. Column: Neera Tanden and the 'civility' scam 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z To appease enfeebled security forces, police and troops are often allowed to loot, extort and commit violent crimes. Special Report-Venezuela wields a powerful 'hate' law to silence Maduro's remaining foes 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z She decided to act like Gerald’s favorite prey – an enfeebled old woman. 'All we could do was run': the strange story of Gerald, the turkey who terrorized a city 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z It's when delusions of "consumer sovereignty" displace citizens' fading sovereignty that an enfeebled democracy produces a Trump. Corporate capital and Trump's coup: Will business elites take a stand? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z As Mr. Trump fulfills long-held ambitions to undermine alliances with Europe, Japan and South Korea, the United States will be further enfeebled; China, increasingly dominant; the world, ever less stable. Opinion | Trump’s America in 2024 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z “The Amazon is condemned to destruction,” despaired one former top official at Brazil’s enfeebled environmental agency, Ibama, accusing the far-right populist of overseeing a wholesale “demolition” of protection efforts. Amazon 'condemned to destruction' as fires proliferate across Brazil 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The chaos and vacuum that followed Hariri’s death laid the foundation for the next 15 turbulent years, during which an enfeebled country withered under the weight of political decay, clientelism and hegemony. Hezbollah member found guilty over killing of Rafik Hariri 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z We’re not here to tell you that the Electoral College we have is perfect, but a national popular election is a titanic risk that America’s already enfeebled political system cannot sustain. The Electoral College dodges another bullet 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z On an international stage that English clubs had dominated, they were now enfeebled. 'Quarantine our sad, sick game': how Heysel tragedy changed English football | Simon Burnton 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z India entered its sixth week of a stringent nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, pushing an economy already enfeebled before the pandemic to the brink of collapse. India’s prime minister announces huge virus relief package 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Nervousness is showing through despite $2 trillion of stimulus and unlimited central bank support to relieve a shortage of dollars as the coronavirus pandemic enfeebles the global economy. A whiplash world waits to see if coronavirus stimulus can help markets 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Fears of the virus inundating Lebanon’s enfeebled medical sector pushed authorities here to enforce an almost total lockdown. A beloved Beirut restaurant survived civil war. Now it must endure COVID-19 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The oldest method of vaccination involves dosing a person with inactive or enfeebled forms of the pathogen. 'It’s a razor’s edge we’re walking': inside the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The collateral damage will cut deeper into Lebanon’s top sectors, including tourism and hospitality, which were already enfeebled by a five-month economic downturn. Lonely joggers and fretful bakers: The coronavirus is hitting the Middle East hard 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z In continental Europe, many felt that the White House’s decision was another political strike at the already enfeebled transatlantic relationship between the United States and some of its closest allies. Europe blindsided by Trump’s travel restrictions, with many seeing political motive 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The majority said Rao’s view laid out in her dissent would “reorder the very structure of the Constitution” and “enfeeble the legislative branch.” Trump appeals to Supreme Court again, this time to block House committee’s subpoena seeking his financial records 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Adam Schiff emphasizes the constitutional stakes, arguing that, if Trump is not held accountable, he will permanently embolden future Presidents and enfeeble Congress. The Key Moments of the Trump Impeachment Hearings 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z A generation later, the conservative revolution arrived in both countries, with Margaret Thatcher triumphing over an enfeebled Labour government, in 1979, and Ronald Reagan routing Jimmy Carter, in 1980. From Little Englanders to Brexiteers 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Matt Jones, a popular sports talk personality, has told people he’s unlikely to run if Democrats here are so weakened that they cannot even unseat an enfeebled Mr. Bevin. Kentucky Governor’s Race Tests Impact of Impeachment in States 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z China needs to recognize it’s no longer the enfeebled nation wronged by 19th-century European colonial powers or even the waking giant that was brought into the World Trade Organization in 2001. Analysis | The U.S. can’t treat China the ‘same way’ it treated the Soviet Union, warns Asian leader 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z In December 2011, a French court found him guilty of embezzlement and handed down a two-year suspended sentence, which his lawyers said he was too enfeebled to appeal. Jacques Chirac, flamboyant French president who opposed U.S. invasion of Iraq, dies at 86 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z He is behaving as if he is a strong prime minister when he is an enfeebled politician without a mandate or a majority. The Queen above politics? Not when Cameron and Johnson come calling | Nick Cohen 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z The cruel paradox of the Internet, once hailed as a liberating force, is that it empowers governments that control information and enfeebles those that let it run free. Opinion | Why America is losing the information war to Russia 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z And they enfeeble their students for the hard work of citizenship that lies ahead. Opinion | Hiding the dark parts of our history on campuses is bad for our democracy 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z It should be obvious by now that arguing for more societal intervention enfeebles the individual’s sense of obligation and purpose. Opinion | Preventing children’s deaths in hot cars 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Other bigger, more familiar Japanese firms also are developing robots to target the enfeebled and elderly. Desperate for workers, aging Japan turns to robots for healthcare 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z A weakened Fairtrade portends the enfeebling of the very idea of fair trade. Is fair trade finished? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z What work remained was paid less, the hours were longer, and production had moved indoors, leaving workers “stunted, enfeebled and depraved”. Bringing big tech to heel: how do we take back control of the internet? 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z The move, unlikely to be made law, is the latest signal of mounting anguish over the enfeebled regulation of everyday products in the US compared with European countries. The US allows 1,300 chemicals banned by Europe to be used in cosmetics. Why? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Leadership by ultimatum is both ugly and hopeless when the prime minister is as enfeebled as Mrs May. MPs must seize control of the Brexit calamity. Mrs May has already lost it | Andrew Rawnsley 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z There was satisfaction among law-enforcement officials at the fact that the Snake’s gang had been further enfeebled by the willingness of members and associates to inform on their comrades. Carmine Persico, Colombo Crime Family Boss, Is Dead at 85 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Erdogan crushed a thriving free press, enfeebled a once-strong military, jailed thousands of dissidents and undermined the Turkish economy, once the jewel of the emerging markets. Opinion | Erdogan sabotages Turkey’s progress by turning away from the West 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z After defeating the enfeebled Qing dynasty in the First Opium War, Britain took over the island and made it a crown colony. Denise Ho Confronts Hong Kong’s New Political Reality 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z It has merely been evaded, eroded and enfeebled by the corroding effect of decades of industry pressure and ideological drift, yielding hesitant enforcers and a hostile judiciary. Opinion | Be Afraid of Economic ‘Bigness.’ Be Very Afraid. 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z But he was an enfeebled shadow of his former self, quickly caving in to Clemenceau’s demands. A killer flu was raging. But in 1918, U.S. officials ignored the crisis to fight a war. 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Tory plotters against the enfeebled Theresa May could be auditioning for the role of Richard III, who deftly kills his way to the crown. Shakespeare in the age of Brexit and Trump: the play’s still the thing 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Yet he's still in the most powerful office in the world, making mess after mess while his enfeebled party blindly follows along. President Donald Trump’s worst day yet: Manafort, Cohen fall and the walls are closing in 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The public trough is a major factor in why the act, always enfeebled, is now itself endangered. Opinion | Virginia’s endangered species need the strongest protection possible 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Cutbacks, layoffs and a revolving door of executives left the 136-year-old daily enfeebled and rudderless earlier this year. The billionaire who bought the LA Times: 'Hipsters will want paper soon' 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z An enfeebled UK, which would have just recently put itself on the sidelines of the EU, represents an ideal target for Mr. Trump to handle. Brexit: How Trump strengthens the case of the Remainers 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z In Brazil, WhatsApp is helping outsiders gain power by replacing enfeebled traditional brokers such as unions. WhatsApp is upending the role of unions in Brazil. Next, it may transform politics. 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Bruce Dern plays Ted’s father, Joe Kennedy — the family patriarch, enfeebled by a stroke — as a hateful man whose impaired speaking ability only intensifies his anger. Review | ‘Chappaquiddick’ plays it fair, appeasing neither Kennedy-clan fans nor its critics 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The Senators are indifferent to these strategic stakes as they try to enfeeble executive war powers. The Senate’s Iran Helpers 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z For while Naipaul to some extent saw India as an unmitigated disaster redeemed by the benign, benevolent hand of British rule, Tharoor forcefully argues that colonial rule not only impoverished India, but enfeebled it. Empire strikes back: why former colonies don't need Britain after Brexit | Griffith Review 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z On the other, they become part of the enfeebled urban masses who will support any major incursion into the forest if it holds the possibility of a job. They owned an island, now they are urban poor: the tragedy of Altamira 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z We heard about a man who faced starvation and risked everything, even in an enfeebled state, to find a better life. Opinion | The Necessary Immigration Debate 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z These are things the Europeans agree need to be addressed, but not by enfeebling the nuclear deal which, they say, is crucial to their security. Has Trump made the world more dangerous? 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z For one thing, Syria is hardly a resounding victory: Mr Assad is the enfeebled leader of a ruined country. Vladimir Putin takes a victory lap in the Middle East 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z As well as hymns, in this enfeebled condition, the poet also turned to a new and sombre kind of prose, his urgent response to the threat of imminent extinction. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 96 – Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne (1624) 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z It is true that Sevilla are defensively enfeebled. Sevilla v Liverpool: Champions League – live! 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Some reports said she was "mentally ill" while others said she was so enfeebled from hunger and thirst that she could not even scream for help. The public rape that bystanders ignored 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z As Congress enters into fiscal negotiations this month, the president’s proposed budget would cut the Park Service’s discretionary budget by 13% and reduce agency staff by 1,200 people, further enfeebling an already under-resourced agency. National parks for all: that's a populist cry we need | Jimmy Tobias 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z And liberals’ censorious proclivities serve to enfeeble them, not empower them. Opinion | Diversity of thought is part of what makes America truly exceptional 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The violence only punctuated more routine efforts to enfeeble the Kurds and subdue Kurdish national aspirations. Is the world ready for "Kurdexit"? Referendum among Iraqi Kurds has Middle East on edge 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Michael Heseltine, the former deputy prime minister, said May’s government was enfeebled and deeply divided. May likely to face autumn bid by some Tory MPs to topple her 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z This enfeebles our efforts to solve problems at home and embarrasses our nation before the rest of the world. Opinion | Trump has made our politics ridiculous 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z At any rate, with the Democrats now enfeebled, the LDP seems to have lost interest in changing things. The price of admission to Japanese politics is high 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z It is not healthy to have an enfeebled leader left to linger in the job only because her colleagues can’t see a way out of this impasse. That jeering sound you can hear is Europe laughing at Britain | Andrew Rawnsley 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z So President Bush’s White House counsel, Alberto R. Gonzales, and chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., secretly went to the hospital to secure a signature from the enfeebled, barely conscious Ashcroft. A sudden fall for an FBI director once seen as above the fray and untouchable 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z His kingdom fell into shambles, a conveniently enfeebled target for Guojian’s eventual capture. China and the Legend of Ivanka 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Dementia and Parkinson’s disease are laying waste to an increasing number of human minds, while heart disease, cancer and diabetes are making our bodies progressively enfeebled. Why Silicon Valley wants to thwart the grim reaper | John Naughton 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z The bill would enfeeble Obama’s individual mandate, the requirement that Americans buy coverage, by abolishing the tax fine on violators. Republicans concede healthcare bill must change in order to pass 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z A fiduciary protection enfeebles us by guaranteeing we’ll receive only good advice. The Depp Conundrum: Who Should Keep Tabs on the Money? 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The problem is that “culturally responsive teaching,” or CRT, enfeebles those ties. Opinion | Montgomery County’s wrong tack on culturally diverse education 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The Redstone forces dreaded the prospect of more examinations of the ailing and enfeebled billionaire, giving Mr. Dauman and his allies considerable leverage. How Philippe Dauman Lost the Battle for Viacom 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Getting at the root of how Roosevelt struggled in his enfeebled last 18 months is the overriding concern of “His Final Battle.” How a declining FDR guided America through war in his last months 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z How did we get to this moment, with labor so enfeebled on Labor Day? Loss of union muscle widens nation’s income gap 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Italians first discovered this weakness back in the 19th century, and modern scientists have mapped the cracks extensively, but until recently no one claimed to know just how enfeebled the ankles might be. David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z She also said that getting rid of the U.K.’s “ultimate safeguard” would embolden Britain’s enemies and enfeeble its allies. U.K.’s Nuclear Weapons Program Likely to Be Renewed by Parliament 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Everywhere nation states are enfeebled or collapsing, as authoritarian leaders battle for survival in the face of mounting external and internal pressures. Iraq taught us nothing: Neoliberalism, interventionism and America’s crumbling empire 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z “Neither Churchill nor Stalin saw the point of including an enfeebled, half-occupied, riven China, but, with some foresight as we can now appreciate, Roosevelt insisted,” Lelyveld writes. How a declining FDR guided America through war in his last months 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Some conservatives, especially in America, portray the continent as too decadent and enfeebled to defend itself against a stealthy Islamic conquest, growling that it has become “Eurabia”. How others do it 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Their formation scrunched up in undisciplined ways at inopportune times, flattening and narrowing when it more likely needed to expand to enfeeble the compact Colombia defensive structure. Jurgen Klinsmann Brushes Off Opening Loss for U.S. Team in Copa América 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z As boatloads of migrants defy winter seas daily to cross from Turkey, that lockdown is rapidly turning Greece, the EU's most economically enfeebled state, into a giant refugee camp. EU's Tower of Babel may fall while leaders distracted 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Mr Rubio and the rest are meanwhile locked in a mutually enfeebling brawl. Trumped and Berned 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z While China is now a sophisticated economy and a rising power, North Korea has become increasingly isolated, enfeebled and erratic, depending on China for most of its food and energy. After Nuclear Test, China Resists Pressure to Curb North Korea 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z When Mr Obama claimed that America was not enfeebled militarily, many Republican congressmen emitted a scandalised gasp. A voice in the wilderness 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z To many foreign leaders, this blockage was a worrying sign of how domestic infighting was enfeebling the United States and impeding its traditional role of global leadership. A strengthened IMF benefits the U.S. and the world 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Its enfeebled overseer, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, allowed its enormous operations to rest on the tiniest sliver of capital, increasing profits during the fat years. A Revolving Door Helps Big Banks’ Quiet Campaign to Muscle Out Fannie and Freddie 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z But the mob isn’t what it once was, enfeebled by decades of police crackdowns, media attention and old age. The last days of the New York mob 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Japan’s slide into deflation left the U.S. with a chronically enfeebled trading partner that still drags on the global economy. Japanese Deflation Threat Hangs Over China 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z An enfeebled New York Mafia limped into the new millennium. Trial of Vincent Asaro Highlights Loss of Mafia’s Code of Silence 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Ms Fernández enfeebled Congress, the central bank and the official statistics agency, which she stopped from reporting bad news. The end of kirchnerismo 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Japan’s prime minister framed a long-awaited apology over the “immeasurable damage and suffering” his country inflicted in World War II as another in an enfeebling cycle that should end. Your Friday Evening Briefing 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z "In its currently enfeebled and electorally shattered state, Labour is proving a pliant host for parasitic and totalitarian far-left groups," it says. Newspaper headlines: Special forces tests and Channel Tunnel breach - BBC News 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z As they collaborate on the care of two patients, both enfeebled, they shift from mutual disdain to respect in an unspoken, organic way. ‘Hippocrates’ review: Dramatic tension in everyday decisions 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The plot of Ghost Fleet pits a politically isolated and economically enfeebled United States against an ascendant China allied with Russia. Ghost Fleet: Military Geeks Imagine The Next World War 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z In the 20th century, American culinary authority Fannie Farmer recommended its “stimulating effect” for “cases of enfeebled digestion.” The Race to Save Chocolate 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z The judge dismissed the estranged heirs’ claims that their patriarch removed them from his businesses while mentally enfeebled and under undue influence from his third wife, Gayle. Saints see Spiller as perfect for Payton’s playbook 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The estranged heirs contend their ouster from ownership positions with the teams resulted from their patriarch being manipulated by his third wife, Gayle, while he was mentally enfeebled. Psychiatrist testifies about Saints and Pelicans owner 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The central bank is turning to QE because of the enfeebled state of the European economy. Better late than never 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z If this fragmentation is everywhere enfeebling to governments, in Britain—with its traditional two-party system, majoritarianism and, at the apex, all-powerful prime minister—the effect is traumatic. A fairly useful prime minister 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In fact, the better doctors perform, the older, more enfeebled and more convincingly mortal our patients become. ‘Being Mortal’ Explores the Benefits of Setting Goals for Death 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z They call themselves democrats but land more blows on the enfeebled liberal world. Tory wreckers out to destroy their own human rights 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z On the downside, however, the model — by effectively subsidizing investment — also produces dizzying levels of debt, burdensome excess capacity and enfeebled financial sectors. China is Headed for a Japanese-Style Economic Crisis 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z But even this is more symptom than cause of a societal recidivism in which economic change, the enfeebling crutch of welfarism and clinging to working-class tradition all play a part. The trials of life in Tilbury 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z But critics worry about the enfeebling effects of too much protection. France protests over performers' pay 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z But Cameron has laid himself a trap by re-opening the old war against enfeebled unions when strikes have been at historic lows for years. David Cameron's war on strikers is a tactical blunder he may regret 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z His deceptive delivery and varied movement enfeebled Desmond for a strikeout in a pivotal spot Monday night at Nationals Park. Ian Desmond suffers hand injury as Nationals fall to Orioles, 4-3 Tuesday night, they pitched with ease, hit with ferocity and asserted their dominance over an enfeebled opponent. Stephen Strasburg, Nationals have their way with the Rockies in 7-1 win Noel Canning thus fashions a recess-appointment power too enfeebled to survive in the wild. Did History Win in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning? 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Reporter Abdullah El Shamy, who worked for the broadcaster's Arabic affiliate, had been on a hunger strike since January, and photos circulated recently on social media showed him looking haggard and enfeebled. Egypt announces verdict in Al Jazeera trial will come next week 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The ambition of so many MPs to become ministers themselves enfeebles its scrutiny. Tony Blair was only unstoppable because of a democratic flaw 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Others within Solidarity wanted to press for as much power as possible by using strikes to cripple the enfeebled government. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader, dies Unplanned urbanism, criminal business, lack of employment, enfeebled public services and authorities; all are contexts for militarised hyper-masculinities to do mastery or martyrdom. Why we need a new women's revolution 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Egyptians were initially transfixed by images of a once powerful leader brought into court in the two cases against him, at times so enfeebled that he was carried in on a stretcher. Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, sons sentenced in graft case 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z But the result would be a split Ukraine, a lot of economic disruption, an even more aggrieved and destructive Russia, and a further enfeebled world order. The unfolding Ukraine crisis signals a new world order 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z A century and a half ago, Great Britain was the foreign power that forcibly wrested the sparsely populated city from the enfeebled Qing government in the aftermath of the First Opium War. Hong Kong's Toddler Test 2014-05-07T04:00:00Z The enfeebled parasites are then extracted for injection into people, where they can create an immune reaction but cannot reproduce quickly enough to create disease. Global Health: A Goal to Combat Malaria With the Help of a Robot 2014-05-05T20:56:39Z The seizure of this industrial city on the road between Slovyansk, the antigovernment militia’s center, and Donetsk, the regional capital, marks a further enfeebling of the interim government in Kiev. Mayor of Ukraine’s Second-Largest City Is Shot 2014-04-28T12:30:55Z "An enfeebled IRS threatens ... the viability of our self-enforcement tax system," he said. Congress weighs budget cut, videos ban for U.S. IRS 2014-01-14T20:11:39Z The current favor economy achieves at least some of its power from our ever enfeebled immunities to shame. Big City: A Favor Economy in Which Kind Acts Come With Expected Reciprocity 2013-12-21T00:14:25Z And it has left Co-op Bank battered and enfeebled, undermining competition and choice for consumers. The big Co-op question for regulators 2013-11-21T09:20:09Z As Western buyers scour Asia for alternatives to increasingly expensive Chinese factories, India and its enfeebled manufacturing sector are mostly ignored. India’s Falling Economic Tide Exposes Its Chronic Troubles 2013-09-05T00:30:04Z Repealing those provisions would enfeeble the heart of the measure, which was aimed in part at making health care more affordable for lower-income people. House OKs 40th effort to repeal health law 2013-08-02T19:57:16Z It signed a memorandum of understanding in November with the troika, setting off a wave of austerity measures that are already starting to hit the enfeebled Cypriot economy. Cyprus Complicates German Quest to Save Euro Zone 2013-02-04T01:26:17Z They faced even greater challenges than we face today: an economy enfeebled by war, a national debt double the size of ours today. Ed Balls conjures up spirit of 1945 with pledge to rebuild UK infrastructure 2012-10-01T13:50:49Z The world is full of failed and enfeebled states in which the main threats to freedom come from organised crime, ethnic conflict and militant sectarian groups. Does democracy always equal freedom? 2012-08-24T17:15:35Z The invasion of chaotic, enfeebled Haiti was a short-term success. The Savage Wars of Peace 2012-08-16T08:15:00Z Talk of the enfeebled state of the economy, which reminds voters of Mr Obama’s failings, has been scarcer, despite disappointing jobs numbers and other gloomy data. Lexington: The long fight 2012-07-19T15:02:29Z However, the mentally enfeebled are by no means the only offenders; indeed, they are probably not the majority. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z An enfeebling spell seemed to have been taken off his mind; and the lassitude of doubt and indecision was gone. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z In defiance of her enfeebled will, the past reconstituted itself, events grouped themselves in sequence; hitherto undetected connections linked up, and made the solid chain that dragged her from vague surmise to definite conclusions. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z A few Believers, enfeebled by privation and torture to such an extent that they could not stand upright, finished by letting fall from their lips, despite themselves, the blasphemous utterances ensuring release. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z In April, 1888, Parliament was dissolved, and when the new Parliament met in June the enfeebled Griffith Government were promptly ejected from office. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z Supposing nervous defects finding expression in feeble-mindedness, epilepsy and related conditions, to act as a Mendelian recessive, then the marriage of one such defective with another should yield only mentally enfeebled offspring. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z They may reckon themselves fortunate if their enfeebled powers can earn just sufficient to keep body and soul together. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The effort William had made to communicate the terrible secret which harassed his mind, enfeebled as it was by disease, had nearly proved fatal to him. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z They shook their heads gloomily, saying to each other: 'So these are the men described to us as enfeebled by the heat and fevers of Al-Madinah!' The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z But now they are weary and faint, like those of some sickly dweller in cities--of some slave of effeminate and enfeebling luxury. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Nevertheless, I rejoice in every fragment of doctrine which remains in it; and I should lament the enfeebling or diminution of any particle of that truth. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The energy and vigor of his younger days were gone, and the enfeebled commander of 1812 was a very different man from the daring and gallant officer of the Revolution. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z Politically, he wanted to be lord of the world—as later he was—under the title of "Emperor Augustus;" and poor, enfeebled Antony alone stood in his way. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The enfeebled state of his crew precluded the hope that, even when recovered, they would accomplish as much as, or at all events more than, had been already done. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z By pursuing this fatal system, he ruined his health, enfeebled his genius, and sunk himself into general contempt. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z But, as we have already seen, matters do not usually attain to such a height of audacity, and quite often fraud only intervenes when the genuine powers have become enfeebled. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z These vermin, when very numerous, greatly annoy and enfeeble the sheep in winter, and should be kept entirely out of the flock. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The narrative shows how enfeebled they had become. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Distance would enfeeble, and perhaps ultimately break, the spell; and even were it not broken, a partition-wall of defence would be erected. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z Does not the will to live increase the viability of enfeebled persons, just as the giving up of the wish to live may abridge life and even extinguish it? Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z It was his intention to publish a history of Radnorshire, but his enfeebled state of health would not allow him to make the necessary exertions. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z A weak heart does not suffice for the production of the oedema, since this condition is not found when both ventricles are alike enfeebled. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Repeated sledge journeys back to the brig, and afterwards from station to station, were made, as they could not transport all their goods at one time in their enfeebled state. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z He looked neither enfeebled nor emaciated, though he showed signs of illness. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z The winter cold had set in, with almost unendurable bitterness to the enfeebled, shivering men. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Idleness of itself weakens them, and disposes them to those Debauches, which enfeeble them still more. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z Marantic thrombi are those whose origin is attributable to that enfeebled condition of the body known as marasmus. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z To fortify this function when naturally weak, or to restore it to its pristine energy when enfeebled by any peculiar circumstances, has been long considered an essential study both by the philosopher and the physician. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The unfortunate Jesus must have been indeed much enfeebled by what he had suffered during both the night and the morning. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z She was but a few miles away, yet in his enfeebled state she seemed to recede rather than to advance as he dragged himself along. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z In thy satire was no gall, in the sting of thy winged wit no venom, in the pathos of thy sorrow no enfeebling touch! Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Their action may be explained as producing a congestion or as enfeebling the opposition of physiological tissues to pathological growths. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z In true paranoia the delusions are systematised, but in this alcoholic pseudoparanoia the enfeebled intellect can not build up coherently even a delusion. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The enfeebled men with difficulty drew him on board. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z She had heart disease, we are told, was strongly attached to him, worn out with long and arduous nursing, and the shock of his decease was more than her enfeebled frame could bear.” Mildred's New Daughter 2012-02-27T03:00:15.313Z But this enfeebling doctrine was inextricably bound up with the fiction of democracy. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z The mental power is enfeebled, and the acuteness of the special senses is diminished. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The mind is enfeebled—slowly in some cases, rapidly in others. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Hungary herself was now directly menaced, and the very circumstances which had facilitated the advance of the Turks, enfeebled the potential resistance of the Magyars. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z So unexpected was this vision, and so enfeebled was her self-control, that her voice faltered, and she almost broke off in the middle of a line. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z They shrink from them as from pollution, and endeavor to create for themselves an imaginary state, in which pain and imperfection either do not exist, or exist in some edgeless and enfeebled condition. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z Young children or those with delicate stomach, and those much enfeebled by the primary disease, may take magnesia, either the citrate or the calcined. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Had I been able, in the subsequent composition, to construct more vigorous stanzas, I should, without scruple, have purposely enfeebled them, so as not to interfere with the climacteric effect. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z He even amplified, versified, and enfeebled, certain rough and ready sentences dictated by Giles. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Still often considered “enfeebled” or “senile,” this community, with its wisdom and insight, continues to be discounted. Well Blog: Finding Joy in Alzheimer's 2012-02-16T05:01:11Z There the visitor will enjoy fine cool air in the sultry heat of summer, while bathing in the lake will invigorate his enfeebled frame. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z Knowing that where there were negroes, in nine cases out of ten there were secessionists near, I left the house as quickly as my enfeebled condition would permit. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z In the 20th century American culinary authority Fannie Farmer recommended its “stimulating effect” for “cases of enfeebled digestion.” The Future of Chocolate (preview) 2012-02-13T13:15:00.203Z Then, feeling that to go into the icy water again, enfeebled by fasts, as he was, might perhaps carry the guilt of suicide, he scourged himself till the blood ran, and so lay down smarting. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z She took his enfeebled arm and laid it across her shoulder, smiling at him sweetly the while. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z But shift power once more to the legislative, and the various conflicting interests throughout the country will grasp for the offices now in enfeebled hands. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z They tell us now that all is good; that evil is but blessing in disguise, that pain makes strong and virtuous men—makes character—while pleasure enfeebles and degrades. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z The first attack he suffered in 1837, and a second in 1838 left him much enfeebled, both physically and mentally, though he remained able to make experiments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Age having enfeebled the powers of Othman, the reins of authority were slackened, and a spirit of discord pervaded all Arabia, illustrative of the Prophet's declaration of vigour being essential to a khalif. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z You don’t die of any particular illness, and you haven’t gradually been wasting away under the spell of some awful, enfeebling disease that began years or decades earlier. Should We Stop Trying To Cure Cancer? 2012-02-08T11:53:42Z We could not go on as we are, with an enfeebled Executive and an enfeebled Congress. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z In spite of his enfeebled state, M. Zubin did not resign his office for several years. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z I hasten to add, however, that it accords thereby but the better with my enfeebled powers of assimilation, and that I am taking it regular and blessing your name for it. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z At last our hideous greed was glutted, and the banderilleros took their turn in baiting the now enfeebled but undaunted bull. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z And so are the sick, when so enfeebled that the shock of grief would destroy them. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Mr. Harding as President, Mr. Taft as Chief Justice, the agricultural bloc, the enfeebled Congress, the one million or so Democratic majority which becomes in four years a seven-million Republican majority, are only manifestations. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z A friend protested, warning him of the peril to his enfeebled health of such exertions. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The government of the Congress would also be enfeebled by it. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.850Z In the year 1772, his progress was impeded by a fever, which enfeebled his nervous system. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z It can be cramped and enfeebled in expression, rendered tormenting in its passage and futile to the recipient, but to whom it comes its supernal quality rises forever beyond all attainder. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Minorities when they determine to take the Senate and the House out of the enfeebled grasp of incompetent regularity will inevitably find precedents already established for them. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z "Stagnant and enfeebling peace conditions" is, in view of subsequent events, distinctly good. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z The essay itself is a little professorial, enfeebled by a sort of Boston-Harvard timidity, utterly failing to express the wild joy which I felt. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z A tardy exhibition of grief, sincere but enfeebled by its own age, it spent itself in a few hours. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Towards morning, exhausted with the intensity of emotion acting on an enfeebled body, I slept a little, and woke at early dawn, to a fresh consciousness of my critical position. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z If we may assume that his death took place on the eve of Ascension Day in 735, no long period of enfeebled health clouded the close of his life, and weakness never interrupted his work. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z Many had died in the mines and the rest returned so enfeebled that they could not plant. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z Time had not changed Louis much, although his reckless life had enfeebled his constitution. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z The practice of funding has gradually enfeebled every state that has adopted it, 395. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z With difficulty the poor oxen, already, in this short space, gaunt and enfeebled from the heat and for lack of food and drink, were forced up into their yokes. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z He was a ghost of what he once had been, enfeebled in mind and body. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z The one enfeebles the body, the other cripples the intellect, and aggravates envy, hatred, and malice. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z In that enfeebled clutch the pen itself tends to waggle and drop; and hence, in short, my appearance of languor over the inkstand. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z He had now become so enfeebled by age as to disqualify him for further service as pastor of a church. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z It is only when faith is enfeebled that we may observe the touch of indifference in the hand of the ecclesiastical builder and artist. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z As soon as voluntary motion in a part ceases, so soon the circulation becomes enfeebled; and if continued, the part will wither and waste away. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z These means would have enfeebled the gymnoti; the Indians therefore told us, that they would 'fish with horses.' Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Such is the recuperative yearning of your enfeebled but not beaten—you can see by this scrawl—old H. J. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z And such sterilisation, where it is not producing actually diseased and degenerate offspring, is producing a pitiful race of pallid and enfeebled babes and children; dyspeptic and spectacled, adenoid-afflicted, unchildlike and generally deteriorate. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Though they might succeed in breaking through the red cordon that held them prisoners on the island, the hope of reaching Fort Wallace could hardly be thought of in their enfeebled condition. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Sickness had gradually enfeebled her, and Salvatori, who was master of her secrets, had established himself in her house. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z Kearney's small troop was much enfeebled by the long and fatiguing journey it had made from Santa F� amid great privations. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z He never showed any symptom of the presidential fever, which, to say nothing of its many other victims, enfeebled each one of the great trio,—Clay, Calhoun, and Webster. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Feminine invasion everywhere else—in schools and colleges, in the arts, in politics, in commerce and in sports—is undoubtedly enfeebling the fibre of our manhood and the quality of masculine achievements. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z It took two days to get them into camp, owing to their enfeebled condition. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Gorm himself was prudent enough to decline the honour; but four of his men could not resist the temptation, and had to pay the penalty with the loss of their memory and with enfeebled minds. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z What he had proposed was soon executed, not however without difficulty, for Aminta was much enfeebled, and Scorpione contended violently with those who sought to place him in front of Maulear, who had already mounted. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Literature and Morality Mutually Explanatory.—We can show from Greek literature by what forces the Greek spirit developed, how it entered upon different channels, and where it became enfeebled. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Be warned", he continues, "by the sad example of him whom to-day you sincerely mourn of an exhausted brain and prematurely enfeebled body. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z During an enfeebled condition, loathsome morsels become injurious; for digestion is clearly at the command of the mind, and is often checked by its caprices. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Habitual inaction enfeebles the faculties, and renders their occasional operation inefficient and fruitless. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z Michael IV., though still a young man, was fearfully afflicted with epileptic fits, which sapped his health, and so enfeebled him that he died a hopeless invalid ere he reached the age of thirty-six. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z I am so enfeebled by this underground life, that trifles alarm me. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z He could converse on divine subjects to the last, when his frame was enfeebled and his mental powers weakened. Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. 2011-10-13T02:00:37.230Z Filth was deposited everywhere, because the enfeebled and dying wretches had not sufficient strength to crawl down to the quagmire by the banks of the stream. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z His forces have been broken, his armies of Jesuits, his friars of all orders, Dominicans, Franciscans, and Capuchins, have been scattered and enfeebled. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z It will, I fear, enfeeble the interest, which he might otherwise take in the result. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z The moral feelings would indeed be purified, elevated and directed to their proper objects by the judicious use of reason; they would not therefore be enfeebled. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Early next morning we struck our tent and descended the mountain, but so enfeebled had we become by hunger, privations, and fatigue, that it was with difficulty we could carry ourselves and burdens. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z The huge gates flew open, and with grim smiles, the enfeebled and tottering apostate was welcomed as an accession to the southern ranks. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z But the devil was so weak and enfeebled by the blows he had had that when he tried to leap he fell on his back. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z With a mind enfeebled by drugs, a correct view of his situation could only strike him by glances; but they were terrible and fearful. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z There is a moment of gleeful shouting and out they come again, slowly, a dark cluster of forms, some apparently supporting an enfeebled man, others grouping about some shadowy companions. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z He met the army of Cinna under the walls of Rome, but both forces were enfeebled by sickness. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z He was not of those whose Christian liberality slackens and enfeebles devotion to their own communion. Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z We made evident progress; still we were in some sort dispersed and enfeebled, and what is worse, the country was indifferent to us. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z When the temperature is maintained at a higher point than is natural, the plant is excited to undue activity of growth; but this is attended with an enfeebled condition, often seen in badly managed green-houses. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z It serves always," he tells them, "to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z Poor Sellis, however, was but a little man, and his weak arm might be still more enfeebled by the consciousness of his ingratitude in attacking so kind and liberal a master! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z His arm, said I, is not shortened, nor in any wise enfeebled; his power is always the same. The Spaniards in Florida Comprising the notable settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565 2011-09-24T02:00:14.187Z Meanwhile the captain had come to, but his face was ghastly pale, and I feared the worst from the enfeebled state in which he was. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z But that which enfeebles the aged strengthens the young. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z I confess that a paternalism that enfeebles the character appears to me scarcely less destructive than a license that intoxicates. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z She now dropped, scarcely able to breathe from the oppression of the heat; or to sustain herself from the enfeebling effects of emptiness, joined to overpowering fatigue. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z After two or three days' march, they became so enfeebled by want of nourishment, that they were not able to advance farther. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z Under this process the bacteria were enfeebled greatly, but not destroyed. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z Now is the grass all withered up and dead, And shrouded in its cerement of the snow; Now the enfeebled Sun goes soon to bed, And rises late and carries his head low. Sonnets and Other Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:08.503Z Thus, both in New England and in New York, there supervened a period of divided councils and enfeebled administration, and this at the precise moment when the colonies were about to encounter new perils. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z The moment it contracts, the hand is enfeebled. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z The Great Mogul diamond was apparently among the jewels thus despairingly bestowed upon his son by the enfeebled old king. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z Pamela would have realised without the doctor’s preparation that the enfeebled mind had lost its power to remember recent events. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z Is it really more reasonable to expect to gain miraculous spiritual strength from Prayer, than to expect to give vigour, by Prayer, to arms enfeebled by fever? My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The enfeebled Berbers were at the beck and call of bad women and ambitious priests, and they would counterorder one day what they had commanded the day before. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z When she entered she saw an old woman sitting there on a bench, so enfeebled by age that her head shook. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z At other times it is not sufficient, particularly if the disease has advanced and the number of bacteria is too great for the enfeebled white corpuscles to deal with. The Pros and Cons of Vivisection 2011-08-23T02:00:31.033Z But, this summer, we have seen great Indian cricketers enfeebled. Two decades on from Hillsborough and Liverpool is still in the dark 2011-08-20T21:54:02Z This enfeebled and emaciated woman was allowed to feel in her body that she was healed of her plague, before she was called upon for her confession. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z His force thus enfeebled, Captain Keymis decided to return to St. Thomas for fresh soldiers. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z I feel myself much enfeebled by my late long Illness, and it is probable I shall not long have any more Concern in these Affairs. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z 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; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Had Dr. Mead stated, that, together with this increased strength of imagination, there existed an enfeebled state of the judgment, his definition would have been more correct. Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-14T02:00:24.997Z Worn out as my body is, my mind is not yet so enfeebled as to make me forget what is due to myself, my ancestors, and my country. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:23.870Z He quieted them as much as lay in his power; but at last his great power was shaken and enfeebled, by imprisonment, by long sickness, by age, by the King's treachery, by disaster on disaster. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z Pan Michael sprang also from the saddle, and caught his enfeebled friend by the shoulder. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Believe me, leave your productions as they are, use words which mean something, and laugh at the grammarians who enfeeble all your phrases with their purisms. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z If the branch upon which it feeds is disturbed, the other caterpillars are likely to crawl away, but the enfeebled victim remains in its place. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z My long imprisonment had greatly enfeebled my bodily strength, and the extreme excitement which I had undergone, was followed by lassitude and relaxation. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z He went on with his botanical studies as much as his enfeebled strength would allow him. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z In the impassioned individual, inordinate love or hate may enfeeble thought; deep and persistent thought may dwarf the affections. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z Again and again his enfeebled frame gave way; and as often his unwavering determination enabled him to rally for another effort. The Captured Scout of the Army of the James A Sketch of the Life of Sergeant Henry H. Manning, of the Twenty-fourth Mass. Regiment 2011-08-05T02:00:43.977Z The amount of labor he performed must have been prodigious, and fully accounts for the enfeebled bodily condition to which he alludes. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z Iwan Woronka was old and enfeebled, his tottering steps carrying him a little way only, to the village inn, his constant resort. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Help from the outside may be convenient, but it enfeebles; all self-help invigorates. Increasing Personal Efficiency 2011-07-31T02:00:10.480Z Sometimes it would seem to be due to the gift—not a common one—of seeing many sides of a question, and of seeing these so vividly that action is thereby enfeebled or frequently changed. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z Nothing had proceeded from her which could support itself; and bear up the name of its origin, when her own sustaining arm should be enfeebled or withdrawn. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z Yes, yes," said Gabriel, faint and enfeebled, "I felt very unwell for a moment, very unwell--but I am better again. Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague 2011-07-27T02:00:26.233Z The extra work thrown upon those who were not entirely incapacitated told severely upon their already enfeebled systems. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z I did not think that, in our enfeebled condition, after six months of terrible hardship and partial starvation, we were the men we had been. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z It is rather red tape, and not the occasional snapping of red tape which enfeebles liberty. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z The ancient and accredited means of training youth in goodness are becoming, I will not say broken, but enfeebled and distrusted. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Worn out, enfeebled in health, insufficiently housed ashore, they were a prey to sickness. The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day 2011-07-18T02:00:23.730Z As her eye glanced around the circle, it fell at last upon the youth supporting her own enfeebled steps. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z This, with the intense exertion in running, in our enfeebled condition, had wellnigh unnerved us. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z The consequence was that she took a severe cold, which fell upon her lungs, and from which she, in her enfeebled state, had not power to recover. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z If we try to teach speech too early and really succeed in fixing the child’s attention upon its tongue, we enfeeble its power of utterance. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z His hair had grown grey,--his powers of mind were enfeebled by all these years of self-control and hypocrisy,--of crime and dread of discovery. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z The distressed and enfeebled girl knew not whither to turn for sympathy and succour; she was beset on all sides, and not a little oppressed with the shackles of her own promise. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z That day of freezing does not seem a worse hardship than many endured previously, but coming when already enfeebled, it was far more injurious. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z The face of the speaker, deadly pale and sorely agitated, told how bad a nurse was this choking, dying girl, in his enfeebled condition, with a terrible wound scarcely yet commenced healing. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Every time we cut ourselves off from nutrition, we enfeeble them. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Women who have long depended upon a corset for support will doubtless find it uncomfortable, or even dangerous, to lay upon their enfeebled muscles alone the task of upholding their bodies. Teaching the Child Patriotism 2011-07-03T02:00:11.747Z A tumult of thoughts crowded upon her enfeebled mind, as she recovered, gasping with the unusual excitement, and her aged frame heaved as if it would burst in the effort. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z One of our party, Hawkins, having once been connected with a circus, now trained us in all the exercises that our enfeebled condition and close quarters permitted. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z "A confidence which flatters me, and which I hope I shall deserve," said the doctor, as the enfeebled man again paused for a moment. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Now it is the teacher’s business to see that the onslaught of knowledge does not enfeeble. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The missionaries at these islands, and foreigners generally, are greatly at fault in that they do not avail themselves more of this easy and unequalled means of retaining health, or of restoring it when enfeebled. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z The soldiers took pleasure in contrasting his mighty genius and his world-wide renown, with his effeminate stature and his wasted and enfeebled frame. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z It was pitiful to see the Roman soldiers standing in their ranks, with enfeebled limbs and parched lips, almost suffocated with heat. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z To men enfeebled by heat and want of food the liquor was more deadly than lead or steel. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z By exposition of holy laws they are not nourished, but enfeebled. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The mental powers are enfeebled, the memory defective, and these intellectual alterations may exist in any degree, even to permanent and intractable forms of insanity. A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy 2011-06-21T02:00:28.890Z The soft Italian air was doing wonders for his enfeebled constitution; he was comparatively well, and they purposed to prolong their absence, and convert the quest of health into a tour of pleasure. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z A few weeks after the Letter was written, F�nelon met with a carriage-accident, and the shock proved too much for his enfeebled frame. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Are these fears God's merciful preparations for some dreadful tidings about to reach us? or are they the mere natural enfeebling of the power to hope as one grows older? Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z For lack of this electric energy the whole system becomes enfeebled and finally dissolved. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z When the day's task was finished, jaded spirits, and a body enfeebled by reluctant application, were but little adapted to domestic enjoyments. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z And must not this exclamation, under the new aspect of things, be accompanied by an enfeebled and less confident belief that God is mindful of him? The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z It did not take long for the disease to work its fatal way in her enfeebled constitution. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z They, our opponents, teach you to rely on the use of this deserted and enfeebled and superannuated weapon of coercion. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z A narrow breach was visible by next day, and the fire from the fortress was evidently much enfeebled; but the commandant decidedly rejected the demand that he should capitulate. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z The lady's strength, enfeebled as it was by grief, and perhaps by the absence of nourishment, seemed scarcely adequate to the task which she had assigned herself. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z It is being unfaithful to the soul to enfeeble its servant; it is being much more unfaithful to it still, to enslave it to its servant. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z His teaching sheds a light, very soft, but borrowed, a light altogether Greek, which the Roman has softened and enfeebled. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Just as any organ atrophies unless kept in a state of constant activity, so the faculty of composition becomes enfeebled and dulled unless kept up by effort and practice. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z Hence, advisedly to stimulate and strengthen the enfeebled will power of his fellow men is the most imperative and immediate task of the radical reformer. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z In 1660 France was predominant in Europe; but she aroused no jealousy except in the house of Habsburg, enfeebled and divided against itself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z China finally escaped from Mao Zedong’s mad doctrine of perpetual revolution and from the enfeebling nostrums of central planning; it became an industrial powerhouse. Henry Kissinger on China 2011-05-14T03:18:15Z You are constantly enfeebling our resources and rendering us more and more tributary to distant parts of the nation. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z Was he laboring under some delusion of an enfeebled brain—did he dream? A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z The second is the enfeebled state of the nation’s middle class. Way of the World: U.S. Needs to Cash In on Bin Laden 2011-05-05T19:10:04Z Why had the monarchy been forced to purchase the obedience of the upper classes and the provinces with immunities which enfeebled it without limiting it? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z This "Angel of the Crimea" returned to England so enfeebled with arduous labour that she has never since entered active life. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z Though he is a "war veter'n" with bullets in his side and leg and his century of life has enfeebled him, he roams the countryside about Uniontown continually, "settin' a spell" with his acquaintances. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z His brain, which like the rest of his body had been greatly enfeebled, was gradually recovering the supremacy which it exercises over the rest of the body in health. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z "The reason of your unreasonable usage of my reason, does so enfeeble my reason, that I have reason to expostulate with your beauty." The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z Like their private life, their public life, no longer stimulated by struggles and difficulties, had become sluggish; their power of initiative was enfeebled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z To present him as weak and enfeebled would destroy for us the vigorous mind, and strong convictions of the old man. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z But just that strengthened his enfeebled heart, that the muses led him to Hippocrene's spring of health. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z The keeper had neither his weight nor his inches, and was further enfeebled by his sense of wrong-doing. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z It becomes enfeebled by disease, by accidents to the brain, and at times disappears, like a lingering spark from a flame, in the dotage of age. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Thenceforward he devoted himself to the foundation of the Frankish monarchy by driving the exhausted and demoralized heretics out of Gaul, and by putting himself in the place of the now enfeebled emperor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The progressive partitioning of landed estates essentially contrary to the spirit of a monarchical government would enfeeble the guaranties which the charter has given to my throne and to my subjects. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z Many died of pneumonia, and the survivors were so enfeebled that all had to be restored to their icy homes to save their lives. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Domestic griefs, rather than years, had enfeebled and ruined her health. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z It is during sickness, when the physical energies are so enfeebled that slight forces turn the balance for or against, that the most palpable effects are produced. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Who shall say how many early deaths of children and enfeebled constitutions, implying moral and intellectual weakness, are caused by ignorance on the part of parents of the commonest laws of life? How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z And yet all the time her sorrow had strengthened, as well as enfeebled, for she was able to master her weakness and follow out the course she had planned. The Haute Noblesse A Novel 2011-03-10T03:00:50.577Z But his mind is very much enfeebled, and probably he will not be able to transact any business, hardly to leave the house. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z There are cases where the nerves are so shattered by illness, or enfeebled by age, that fears come on the mind, as fits on the body, not as a fault but as a heavy affliction. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z Happily for us, the power to suffer, like every other power, becomes enfeebled and wears out at last by extravagant usage. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z More open-air amusements, and more indoor gaiety, would save a great many failing brains and enfeebled hearts. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z The Chow dynasty was so enfeebled and so discredited that Lao Tse left the unhappy court and retired into private life. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z In this shameful embrace they wrestled a moment until the man's violence enfeebled himself. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z So soon as the Mussulman rule becomes enfeebled, a native chief rises up who is enabled to rally his countrymen around him and form a dynasty. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z If former plumpness have left the previously-filled cellular tissue and expanded integuments enfeebled; because, that constitutes flaccidity. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z Sáhela Selássie was clad in the plainest of garments, and appeared much enfeebled and emaciated by rigorous mortification, but was in high spirits at the prospect of speedy release from the irksome penance. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Or some enfeebled old man tottering on the brink of the grave might succeed him. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z For the hope, and the fear, and the joy had quite overcome the child, enfeebled as he was by meagre fare; his lips were quite pale, and his cheeks. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z Opposition forces sidelined or enfeebled under Mubarak's authoritarian rule are beginning to mobilize. Egypt pro-democracy activists plan victory march 2011-02-18T00:13:27Z And without a regret, without an enfeebling doubt, he could turn his back upon a throne and an adoring people, in defense of an imperiled Protestantism in another land. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z Personally, the workings of the "scoring-off" process were a little too much for my enfeebled mental system, but I was informed peremptorily that I always was a dull dog. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z One day he was walking up and down, trying to think in spite of his enfeebled state. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z It only required patience, until the huge creature should become exhausted with its struggles and enfeebled by the loss of blood. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Returning to England in 1829, after an interval of two years’ travel, Elphinstone retained in his retirement and enfeebled health an important influence on public affairs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Lessing had been the first to break away from an enfeebling imitation of French Sentimentlalism. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z To these causes of mortality, so much the more active from operating on bodies already exhausted or enfeebled, was added the unfavourableness of the season; obstinate rains, followed by more obstinate drought, and violent heat. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Meanwhile Carthage, subjugated and enfeebled, had been slowly regaining something of her former prosperity. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z You must accept the whole or reject the whole; attenuation does but enfeeble, and amputation mutilate. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z In his prime, the old man evidently had been a stalwart physical specimen, and advancing years had not enfeebled him. Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z Some of the prisoners were released at last, racked with disease and enfeebled in mind. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z The recollection of his former terrors in this very place increased his present forebodings of evil, by mingling themselves with his reflections, and enfeebling more and more his understanding. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Occasionally men were stricken by illness and died or were enfeebled without any manifest cause. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z No doubt he inherits the power in an enfeebled and so far rudimentary condition, from some early progenitor, to whom it was highly serviceable and by whom it was continually used. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z The wolves, driven by hunger from the woods, killed the enfeebled people. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Tears of terror and of utter bewilderment seized on Alex' enfeebled powers, and deprived her of utterance. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z "This long series of calculations finally enfeebled her eyesight, which had been excellent, and she was in the last years of her life obliged to discontinue them." Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z It has a first class structure, once a watchword for competitiveness, that is enfeebled, and an administration that would have taken the game into bankruptcy were it not for Indian money. Mike Selvey on Strauss's new England 2011-01-07T08:18:12Z The effects of the heat, moreover, are aggravated by the humidity of the atmosphere, so that it saps the vitality and enfeebles the stoutest constitution. The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International Politics 2010-12-30T03:00:21Z Indeed, it would have been impossible to carry me further along the rugged road that led down the mountain, with my leg in splints, and my general health in a most enfeebled condition. The White Man's Foot 2010-12-28T03:00:15.167Z He raved, mixing up names in his enfeebled brain. 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z I looked around for the coroner, and saw him talking earnestly with the old and enfeebled butler, who seemed ready to sink with distress. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z There was just one chance left for him, and that was to spur his already enfeebled horse to a gallop and race his antagonist. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z Here in Dublin, Tuesday's budget has left people numb, miserable and enfeebled. Dublin's great reckoning 2010-12-08T21:30:00Z He, and others, similarly regard cricket's saturated fixture schedule as a classic case of enfeebling the golden goose. Buoyant rugby union gives the English a reason not to emigrate 2010-08-23T23:06:00Z There must be something else, something which my enfeebled brain could not succeed in translating into words. 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z Brought to America in infancy, economic conservatism was adopted by plutocrats like Andrew Carnegie and raised by the rich, who continue to be the chief audience of what is now an elderly and enfeebled doctrine. Happy birthday, Social Security! 2010-08-17T12:45:00Z They're leery of open-ended, ill-defined talks that create an illusion of progress and alleviate pressure for U.S. intervention — all while further enfeebling the already diminished Palestinian leader in the eyes of his own people. Palestinians Hold to Preconditions for Peace Talks 2010-07-30T08:05:00Z It will be interesting to see who emerges as the dominant partner in this special relationship: the enfeebled old colonial master, or the newly self-confident former colony. Cameron is right to pin his hopes on a special relationship with India 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z That all rests, though, on a very big "if": the ability of the enfeebled and unbalanced UK economy to withstand these draconian measures without slipping back into . Budget 2010: The axeman cometh 2010-06-22T19:38:00Z At present Congress insists that it pay $5.5 billion a year into this fund—a heavy burden for such an enfeebled outfit. Hoping for deliverance 2010-04-15T10:52:00Z Yet when it suits an anti-union Conservative party and de-unionised newspapers to demonise enfeebled Unite and Bob Crow they do not hesitate. Strike undermines Labour poll hopes 2010-03-20T07:05:00Z It is not surprising, therefore, that the frequent introduction of cold water and its continued presence in the ear enfeeble the sense of hearing. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers When he had fled into the jungle beyond the island village, though he had been demented and enfeebled, the instinct of a race that had often “hidden out” guided him. The Law of Hemlock Mountain It was a wild, weird, intermittent sound, swelling or falling as the echoes reinforced or enfeebled it. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. So they came to a bloody conflict, in which the disciplined Medinese prevailed over the Meccans whom their commercial habits had partly enfeebled. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII "I'm frae Scotland, sir," was the reply, in a voice of singular sweetness, but evidently enfeebled by suffering. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 The novice, though shocked at such untimely exultation, was not able to avoid it; for he was enfeebled, and Botello held him with a fast and determined gripe. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico But it was all to no purpose; I was still a bloated mass, and extremely enfeebled. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician I sometimes descended a little way, and found that among the rocks below the summit the action was greatly enfeebled. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. From Spain, he went to preach the crusade at the courts of Portugal and France—an arduous journey, which proved fruitful of royal caresses, but fatal to his enfeebled frame. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Note also carefully the fact that the exhausted physical condition of the bride is sure to result in an enfeebled offspring, should conception occur before she has regained her physical powers. What a Young Husband Ought to Know From a deep slumber, that seemed, indeed, death, for it was dreamless, the cavalier, at last, awoke, somewhat confused, but no longer delirious; and, though greatly enfeebled, entirely free from fever. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico Many a sick patient in the same circumstances, would have poured the cooling liquid into an enfeebled throat and stomach without the least restraint. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician It is known that sound is conveyed to our organs of hearing by the air: a bell struck in a vacuum emits no sound, and even when the air is thin the sound is enfeebled. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. The enfeebled brain fails again; sense and will flicker out into misty delirium; from helpless memory a reek distils, and the magic of the sea is upon him. The Unknown Sea Vivian continued so utterly enfeebled and prostrate that there was but one chance for him—return homewards. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories But the weak and less vigorous loadstones, enfeebled by the flow of humours, are visible in every region, in every strath. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments But the risk was too great for my enfeebled and diseased frame, and should not have been incurred. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician It will madden me to recollect the past; and I am wrong—oh, very wrong—thus to dwell on ideas that sadden and depress instead of raising and invigorating my enfeebled mind. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 Yes, being with you has enfeebled my mind, and this must be put an end to,—there's enough of it; this will else do me mischief, I am sure. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 An unheard-of rise in prices ensued, famine followed, and in the years 1635 and 1636 a pestilence attacked the enfeebled population, more terrible than had raged for more than a century in Germany. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Lofty exaltation was followed by enfeebling relaxation, and the striving after Christ, by the fear of hell; and the opponent of the Holy One pressed himself as a spectre into the whole life of man. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. The open air was also the best remedy for my enfeebled and irritated bronchial cavities. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician In St. Augustin's time, as we have seen, they positively forbad the Pope's interference with their internal government, and only submitted to it after they had been enfeebled by the irruption of the Vandals. The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries The strain upon enfeebled body and brain had been great, and for days he remained delirious or unconscious. The Key to Yesterday Thus an acid taken at 20°, but heavily charged with copper from having been used, will be found to be materially enfeebled, and to bite more slowly than fresh acid at 15° to 18°. A Treatise on Etching When the Reformation made the Church a department of the secular government, it undermined the already enfeebled spiritual forces which had erected that sublime, but too much elaborated, synthesis. The Acquisitive Society An inclement sky, an enfeebled sun, a sick day, and a burning, biting frost! Yiddish Tales "Try me!" came back a voice undaunted, though enfeebled by long suffering. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories Nevertheless, he journeyed with a heavy heart and an enfeebled frame of spirits, through disappointment, vexation, and fatigue. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact The trade in alcohol enfeebles the will, saps the resisting power, and then trades upon that enfeebled will. Stand Up, Ye Dead He was an enterprising colonist, and performed a great deal of work for a man of his years and enfeebled physical condition. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers He called her with all the strength of his enfeebled lungs, but received no response. Three Young Ranchmen or, Daring Adventures in the Great West But in some cases the fragments have been eventually found wide apart, the patient being left with an enfeebled limb. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Middle of paragraph summarizes the earlier “He had an excuse...” passage in A&M. Nevertheless, he journeyed with a heavy heart and an enfeebled frame of spirits, through disappointment, vexation, and fatigue. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Let him surrender to intemperance, and the judgment of disordered nerves and enfeebled frame is immediately declared. Stand Up, Ye Dead The quickness of the action was so different from his usual enfeebled movements that I did not fail to notice it. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance To obliterate the miracles that appear in the lives of the saints, or even to enfeeble their import by the manner of relating them, would rob these legends of their intrinsic value. Mary, Help of Christians And the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers: Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year Very many imagine progress to be a struggle in behalf of Germany against the enfeebling system of innumerable small states, or a battling against religious rigorism and priest-rule in secular concerns. The Progressionists, and Angela. In great alarm she betook herself to his study, where she found him extended upon a sofa, so enfeebled and bewildered by this recent incident that he was scarcely conscious of her presence. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency It seems to us that this rapid survey of the immense subject treated by Mr. Lea is calculated to confirm rather than to enfeeble an unprejudiced reader's sense of the marvellous achievements of the Church. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 The temper of modern times tends to enfeeble our sense of the supernatural. Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order A child put at hard work in this way, is, as is well known, stunted in growth or enfeebled in health. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them Now, there is nothing which enfeebles the spirit and breaks the courage like religious dependence. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Thence comes the power, Fervid and loving, that, Filling the quick-throbbing Bosom of woman, Turns to the succor Of nature enfeebled; A sorceress pallid, With endless care laden. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII They ought to have concentrated the whole people on the English border, and they forgot that men enfeebled by famine would be unfitted for warfare, or indeed for any lengthened travel. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa Everything that clogs, impedes, or retards life we hate; sickness, imprisonment, death, whatever diminishes, enfeebles, limits, or destroys life, we abhor. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II The old woman then burst from the crowd, and hurried away as fast as her limbs, enfeebled by age, would permit. Lives of Celebrated Women Against this dangerous influence of the world, Christ has set the contagion of godliness within His Church, and every avoidable subdivision enfeebles this salutary counter-influence. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus But our new-fangled philosophers have dubbed all these things the prejudices of intellects enfeebled and intimidated by seductive superstition. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second But these were small of their kind, and enfeebled by age and long captivity. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa Of course, the parental may be good, but acquired poor, or the reverse, according as the subject is strengthening or enfeebling, building up or breaking down his physical constitution, by correct or erroneous physiological habit. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology One thing in your sturdy creed makes it omnipotent—the utter absence of such an enfeebling thought as that this life was meant to be a pleasure-house. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance Rome then intervened, determined finally to destroy her now enfeebled rival. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" He spent the summer in Switzerland, but returned enfeebled in health and depressed in spirits. Fragments of an Autobiography I was a strong, powerful man, and he was enfeebled by constant drunkenness and debauchery. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. In the latter city he was overtaken by a low fever, which detained him for a month, and from which he arose enfeebled but with clearer mind. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel They were so enfeebled that they could not even get back to their vessels. The Spanish Pioneers His father was dying, and he could stop only for an instant to receive a last pressure of the enfeebled hands! Harper's Round Table, July 23, 1895 Vortigern," the Christian druid said, smiling, "do you, perchance, think that my arms are so much enfeebled by old age that I could no longer wield a flail? The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century A doubting conscience enfeebles a man’s spiritual vigour for work. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews He realises his own enfeebled state, and knows that the otherwise cowardly carnivora will realise it too. Haviland's Chum Terrible for the stock, enfeebled and emaciated after months of bare subsistence on such miserable wiry blades of shrivelled grass as it could manage to pick up, and on the burnt and withered Karroo bushes. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt |
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