Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright ,, Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, , Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Don't let their frail appearance fool you.
This tale is a familiar one to bibliophiles around the world, as the frail arsenals of independent bookstores surrender to the triple threat of Amazon, e-books, and competition from other media.
"Just a minute," answered a frail, elderly voice.
I wipe the tears away from my eyes and bend my frail old legs down to the floor, so that I can kneel beside you.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
I'm not a frail old man yet.
It becomes a weak, frail sapling.
The boy's mother's one casual motion had tremendously hurt her son's frail heart unwittingly, making his inner mental world collapse in a second!
Your frail little seedling would soon be choked by weeds.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and a four-year-old grandson.
A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year old grandson.
Secondly, today's university students, most of them are the "only-child", who are more mentally frail.
If it fails, we must quickly take to our rafts; frail as they are, we have more chance of saving our lives with them than we have if we remain here.
All that day I floated up and down, now beaten this way, now that, and when night fell I despaired for my life; but, weary and spent as I was, I clung to my frail support, and great was my joy when the morning light showed me that I had drifted against an island.
But now he was more inclined to hear Rudy's adventures while hunting and travelling, and to listen to his descriptions of the difficulties the chamois-hunter has to overcome on the mountain-tops, or of the dangerous snow-drifts which the wind and weather cause to cling to the edges of the rocks, or to lie in the form of a frail bridge over the abyss beneath.
She will sail on a frail pine-twig over the raging torrents beneath, and spring lightly from one iceberg to another, with her long, snow-white hair flowing around her, and her dark-green robe glittering like the waters of the deep Swiss lakes.
" said the princess; "it is very unfortunate for him; it would really be a good deed to free him from his frail existence; and, indeed, when I think how often people take the part of the lower class against the higher, in these days, it would be policy to put him out of the way quietly.
The worms have gnawed the gilded wood, the spider has spun her web from the crown down to the sand, like a mourning banner, frail and transient as the grief of mortals.
