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Meanings of frailness in inglés

portugués
fraqueza
catalán
fluixedat
español
debilidad

The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)

debilidad
Usage of frailness in inglés
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This gives one a realizing sense of the frailness of a
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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The sense of her motion, of her frailness, lingered in his soul ever afterwards.
Mike Fletcher: A Novel
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He was thin even to seeming frailness,-yetit was the frailness of the race-horse.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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She wore a massive crown which seemed too heavy for her frailness to sustain.
Chivalry: Dizain des Reines
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She had noticed the transparency of the delicate flesh, the frailness of the wrinkled hands.
The Man of the Desert
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Her frailness touched him; he was angry at Eddie Swanson for the incessant family bickering.
Babbitt
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That barrier confessed its frailness in every drooping line.
The Seeker
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Such musing failed to distract me from thoughts of Berge's frailness, and his disturbing golden pallor.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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What, is it for the frailness of a reed like you that such noble enterprise must perish?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
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Three or four years before, with her rapidly increasing frailness, the old lady's memory had begun to fail.
She Stands Accused
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Yet for all their frailness, how much jealousy and envy and unhappiness some of them managed to contain!
My Antonia
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This gives one a realizing sense of the frailness of a Mississippi boat and the briefness of its life.
Life on the Mississippi
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But just the thin empty frailness of her, her gaiety in the face of perfectly inevitable destruction, appealed to Rose.
The Real Adventure
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The best part of his life is passed among blossoms, and he seems to partake of their beauty and frailness.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Its frailness is deceptive.
The Strong Arm
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When she talked of her inability to go to night school because of her frailness and weariness, tears flooded her eyes.
Making Both Ends Meet: The income and outlay of New York working...
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Translations for frailness
español
debilidad
Frailness through the time