He dared not get up and say, "I am not guilty, the whole story is false"—even if he had dared this, it would have seemed to him, under his present keen sense of betrayal, as vain as to pull, for covering to his nakedness, a frail rag which would rend at every little strain.
They are too helpless: their lives are too frail.
Little long grass spikes stood up like bits of gold wire, frail blue harebells trembled on their tough, slender stalks, Gipsy roses opened wide and flat their lilac-coloured discs, and the golden stars of St.
To lie under an acacia tree that last week and look up through the branches at its frail leaves and white flowers quivering against the blue of the sky, while the least movement of the air shook down their scent, was a great happiness.
An inglorious gibbous moon was hanging over the wooded hills and in its spectral light Cissy looked frail and lovely and incredibly young.
At last Becky's frail limbs refused to carry her farther.
Even when playing outdoors, they tend to discourage daughters from taking risks and assist them, as if they were too frail to do it by themselves, while they encourage their sons' initiative, letting them push their boundaries on their own.
"Just a minute," answered a frail, elderly voice.
A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and a four-year-old grandson.
That's why the solution isn't hourly messages from concerned moms and dads, whose stubborn attentiveness, no matter how well meant, can leave their children psychologically frail.
Passepartout, who had now rejoined his master, made a wry grimace, as he thought of his magnificent, but too frail Indian shoes ,,.
Best of all, those who are the most frail benefit the most.
One day, a frail lady in her late 40s wearing many layers of clothing walked up and down the line of people waiting to be served, handing out little candy hearts.
In my frail canoe I struggle to cross the sea of desire, and forget that I too am playing a game.
、—— False heart, frail chain, and silent lute.
Longer telomeres also tend to signal stronger bones and a less frail old age, meaning dealing with spots may have more than one silver lining.
Longer telomeres also tend to signal stronger bones and a less frail old age, meaning dealing with spots may have more than one silver lining.
It becomes a weak, frail sapling.
From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once,you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between,is but an hour, The frail duration of flower.
,——, They tell us that slumber, the sister of death, ; Mortality's emblem is given; , To fate how I long to resign my frail breath, !
