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Meanings of very frail in English

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Usage of very frail in English
1
Even while comparatively well, his health always continued to be very frail.
Great Violinists and Pianists
2
That very frail old woman with her fumbling hands and moving lips!
If Winter Comes
3
I suppose Alfred died many years since; he was very frail and delicate.
Winter Evening Tales
4
She unrolled the yellowed cloth carefully, for it was very frail.
A Spinner in the Sun
5
Garry was supporting her, and she seemed to have suddenly grown very frail.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
6
She is a woman of great delicacy of appearance, betokening very frail health.
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
7
She was thinner and very frail, but she was eighty-nine now.
Jewels
8
Not unlike her brother, her mother looked very frail to her.
The kiss
9
She was with him when he met Challoner, who looked very frail and forlorn.
The Intriguers
10
I think he will not live a great while, for he seems very frail.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
11
She brought us up with infinite courage, though she was a very frail woman.
Lady Merton, Colonist
12
She became for me a rare and fragile object, something burdensome, but very frail.
The Good Soldier
13
She seemed very frail in the light, an old woman, dried up and wrinkled.
Doom of the Dragon
14
Either the woman was without her reason or very nearly so: she was very frail.
The Blind Spot
15
The boy was physically very frail, and soon tired.
Helena
16
Long, long the road, and very frail are we
Chivalry: Dizain des Reines
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