Sentence examples for Very infirm from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, in Madison's "Autobiography" (actually an untitled manuscript written/dictated at the age of 80) he writes that "His very infirm health, had been occasioned not a little by a doubled labor, in which he was joined by fellow student Jos.

In fact, standing at a polling station on Wednesday, in the freezing December morning, one thing that stood out was the number of elderly and very infirm who turned out to vote - many of them had to be physically helped to the ballot box.

With vaccines, we use the same technique to protect the very young and very infirm members of our families and communities.

It went: Few of us are not in some way infirm, or even diseased; and our very infirmities help us unexpectedly.

Mr. Dullea, whose ideas for Horace are ho-hum (he's generically gentlemanly and decent) is also not very persuasively infirm, in spite of the fact that he has affected a slight, chickenlike palsy of the neck and head.

In particular the heat affected the very old and infirm, especially in Paris.

The mortgage still had to be paid, war or no war, so the house in Whitton was rented out in order to keep up the payments, and my mother moved back in with my grandmother, who was by then very elderly and infirm and living alone.

In general, workhouses only granted admission to orphans, complete families, or the very oldest and infirm members of society who had nobody else to care for them.

Some Americans find they have little choice but to sell as many possessions as possible until they join the ranks of the "dual eligibles".Home is where the heart isA growing number of infirm and very old people in all rich countries are looked after at home.

Since even today's heat waves cause premature deaths by the thousands, mainly affecting very young, elderly and infirm people, the more extreme conditions envisioned in the new paper "would probably be intolerable even for the fittest of humans, resulting in hyperthermia" after six hours of exposure.

Eileen Brennan, somewhat infirm, was very humorous.