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enfeebled
1. The practice of funding has gradually enfeebled every state which has adopted it
2. Genoa and Venice, the only two remaining which can pretend to an independent existence, have both been enfeebled by it
3. Spain seems to have learned the practice from the Italian republics, and (its taxes being probably less judicious than theirs) it has, in proportion to its natural strength, been-still more enfeebled
4. The republic of the United Provinces is as much enfeebled by its debts as either Genoa or Venice
5. enfeebled arm in answer
6. They affirm that we would convert all men into enfeebled specimens of passive nonresisters who would soon perish from the face of the earth
7. Given our enfeebled state and the now mounting heat, trudging up and down sand and asphalt seemed a stupid’s idea
8. Caught in the crossfire, the so-called secularists were much too enfeebled and compromised to be able to respond effectively
9. Having enfeebled him into setting a precedent, she was not averse to giving in, and thus said enticingly, “Switch off the light
10. growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to rebuff those who would
11. in the developed world that have left Europe too enfeebled to resist its
12. He may not lack their physical existence, yet he may become enfeebled and unable to enjoy them even if they were available
13. He was still more puzzled and worried when, on the very day week after the birth, Ilse came to him and said that Frau Pastor was shaking her bed about and that she feared if she did not soon stop the bed, which was enfeebled as Herr Pastor knew by having two mended legs among its four, might break
14. The enfeebled state of mind produced by such impressions in youth or age is that which prepares a deep foundation for sacerdotal superstition,—the curse of Christendom
15. Love often evangelizes the heart when the doctrine fails to reach the enfeebled understanding
16. Then came a representation of the light and graceful movements of a canoe, set in forcible contrast to the tottering steps of one enfeebled and tired
17. " Noirtier had succeeded in mastering his emotion more than could have been deemed possible with such an enfeebled and shattered frame
18. This promise of an impotent old man was so strange that, instead of being the result of the power of his will, it might emanate from enfeebled organs
19. But his character had been so much enfeebled by suffering, that even its lower energies were incapable of more than a temporary struggle
20. Caris was too enfeebled to fight her
21. He left in order not to obstruct the commander in chief’s undivided control of the army, and hoping that more decisive action would then be taken, but the command of the armies became still more confused and enfeebled
22. In the miserable, sobbing, enfeebled man whose leg had just been amputated, he recognized Anatole Kuragin
23. In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses
24. When Pierre reached the fire and heard Platon’s voice enfeebled by illness, and saw his pathetic face brightly lit up by the blaze, he felt a painful prick at his heart
25. There is no doubt that, had they not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the victory
26. The story, published in enormous block letters in an ink the color of blood, fell like a thundering cataclysm on the enfeebled local aristocracy
27. I rested for the remainder of the daylight in a shrubbery, being, in my enfeebled condition, too fatigued to push on
28. Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals—morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invunerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask
29. While the soldiers were struggling forward against the icy hurricane, the snow, whirled up by the wind, drifted over the hollows and concealed their depth; the soldiers fell into them and were buried in the drifts, and many who were already enfeebled lay where they fell
30. This is the only supposition upon which it is possible to explain the unnecessary caution displayed by the Russian Commander-in-Chief whenever his generals showed any intention of attacking their enfeebled adversary, and making an end of him and the war at a blow
31. The Commandant, enfeebled by his wound, collected his remaining strength, and replied, in a resolute tone—
32. Lizabetha Prokofievna, when she saw poor Muishkin, in his enfeebled and humiliated condition, had wept bitterly
33. "But," it will be objected, "always, in all societies, the majority of men, all the children, all the women, absorbed in the duties and cares of motherhood, all the great mass of workers, who are completely absorbed by their labor, all those of weak mind, all the enfeebled, the many who have come under the subjection of nicotine, alcohol, opium, or what not,—all these are not in a position to think for themselves, and consequently they submit to those who stand on a higher intellectual level, or they simply act according to domestic or social tradition, or in accordance with public opinion,—and in their acting thus there is nothing abnormal or contradictory
34. To live as do the rich, idle people, especially the women, far from nature and from animals, in artificial conditions, with muscles atrophied or misdeveloped by gymnastics, and with enfeebled vital energy, would be impossible were it not for what is called art—for this occupation and amusement which hides from them the meaninglessness of their lives, and saves them from the dullness that oppresses them
35. In the miserable, sobbing, enfeebled man whose leg had just been amputated, he recognized Anatole Kurágin
36. When Pierre reached the fire and heard Platón’s voice enfeebled by illness, and saw his pathetic face brightly lit up by the blaze, he felt a painful prick at his heart
37. "But," it will be said, "at all times, in all societies, the majority of persons—all the children, all the women absorbed in the bearing and rearing of the young, all the great mass of the laboring population, who are under the necessity of incessant and fatiguing physical labor, all those of weak character by nature, all those who are abnormally enfeebled intellectually by the effects of nicotine, alcohol, opium, or other intoxicants—are always in a condition of incapacity for independent thought, and are either in subjection to those who are on a higher intellectual level, or else under the influence of family or social traditions, of what is called public opinion, and there is nothing unnatural or incongruous in their subjection
38. But all these agonizing events had so enfeebled him that he could scarcely keep on his legs
39. With a wild shout the savage warriors fell upon the Bishop's enfeebled followers, and their flashing spears speedily covered the ground with dead and dying
40. He had probably been subjected by the removal to more pain than in his enfeebled condition he could bear, and it required long and patient exertion on the part of the doctor before he was revived from his syncope
41. The gladsome return of the cheering warmth will probably renovate the enfeebled constitutions of many of our aged people
