Reason: the great Absurdity to our feebleness is the Divine, 841-m. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
A small deckhouse, holding on by ropes, and in feebleness welcoming the stranger with hats in hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Diadem Rescuing the Crew of the C. W. Connor] Reference
Lack of confidence in one's own powers is the source of every kind of feebleness and of all unsuccess. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
The feebleness of this must have struck all present, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
"Snow!" cried Cora, annoyed out of her usual assumption of feebleness. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
The fathers have not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Fever took him, soon after he was wounded, with feebleness of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
If I urged the feebleness of my health and tardy convalescence, he insisted that. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The mawkishness of the sentiment was only surpassed by the feebleness of the style. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Yet this feebleness, profound, insurmountable, was what caused his torments of jealousy. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
I soon found out that we were no longer on our right road; but observe how far the feebleness of. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
The answer to this question is a most painful confession of feebleness, vacillation and dishonor. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
To hold her, he had only his music, and perhaps his bodily feebleness that excited her compassion. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
They knew he was old for he was stooped and walked with the shuffling gait that comes from feebleness. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
When the thought is expected to ascend, but descends, feebleness, and sometimes confusion, is the result. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition] Reference
Why be only noticeable from the force of your language as compared with the feebleness of what you have to say?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Huguenots had outgrown the feebleness of infancy and stood as a distinct and powerful body before the religious world. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Yet Sheik Ahmed Yassin's physical feebleness belied his role as the inspirational force behind a bloody terror campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Arafat At The Brink] Reference
And Ryder, partaking of its feebleness, from his devotion to the pure subjective note became too exhausted for aught else. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
There is also a certain remarkable feebleness of constitution, combined, it may be, with vigour, suppleness and strength of body. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
Such is his feebleness of body and languor of spirit at noon, that the greatest pleasure of life consists in being entirely at rest. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
More often the troops that were expected to defend Khartoum put Gordon to shame by their feebleness and cowardice, and suffered miserable defeat. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
Catalonia, until then subjected to the kings of France, took advantage of the feebleness of Louis le Debonnaire to render themselves independent. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
His erect immobility, his emotional self-containment, recalled to her, by contrast, the feebleness and helplessness that had lured her into this trap. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
From this time forward, however, he had to be watched with the utmost carefulness, and his feebleness so delayed us that we were a good three hours later in. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
The cant about it sometimes illustrates only a pitiable feebleness of intellect, but it more frequently discloses some kind or degree of wilful licentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Notwithstanding this, and the more fatal feebleness of Pack's brigade, the French were totally beaten, and their loss was nearly four times that of the British. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
He had believed Annette, and in the mere feebleness of acquiescence he had hung a weight about his neck which he was doomed to carry as long as her life should last. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
His rule was a period of struggle and disorder, owing partly to the feebleness of his own character, partly to the wish of his brother, Albert, to share his dignities. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
In conclusion, Starkey appears to have been one of those mild spirits, which, not originally deficient in understanding, are crushed by penury into dejection and feebleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Here he compares not badly to a sandy hook, a sorry kind of anchor, the soul that is unsettled and has no steady reason, but surrenders judgment through flabbiness and feebleness. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Howard seems to throw off his age and feebleness as time goes on, and the height of his passion is marked by a note of his cheerfulness and gladness after he has killed his enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
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