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Father Kleinsorge put a piece of cloth over Father Schiffer's eyes, so that the feeble man would not think he was going crazy.

Captain America was originally Steve Rogers, a relatively feeble man who is given superpowers by an experimental growth serum, and fights the Nazis in World War II.

Look not at the feeble man sitting in court, his right hand trembling, his pinstriped pants tucked into the tops of his rubber galoshes.

Duane Dix is a skateboarder, who glides in and out of interviewer's microphone range, talking in jive talk: "There was this one time, I remember, this was real feeble, man, it was moron city......my buddy Gary, from school?" etc. Al Gumbiner, Jr., made his living for fifty-five years by standing on stage and talking through his hat.

"I don't know why they killed them," said Mr. Samad, a short, feeble man with a white beard and white turban, as he struggled in an interview to come to terms with the loss of his wife, four daughters between the ages of 2 and 6, four sons between 8 and 12, and two other relatives.

He speaks of freedom and the difficult decisions it requires: "The wolf is entitled to a sheep/Much like a tyrant to a feeble man./But to stomp the neck of tyranny/To lead it to the righteous knowledge/ That is man's most sacred duty".

In particular, as Teiresias -- the blind seer who knows the truth, and is brought by anger by Oedipus's doubt of him to make the first declaration that the king himself was the killer of the king -- Lou Ferguson does a riveting turn as a stiff-legged and feeble man whose rage is nonetheless terrifying.

Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection.

Thought and poetry died or passed as a heritage to feeble fawning men who also became servants of the new order.

He also duped his kidnappers into believing that he was a feeble, old man with an ailing heart.

Mr. Cherry, who lived in Birmingham during the 1960's and left for Texas in the 1970's, has denied any involvement in, or knowledge of, that bombing, and his lawyers are expected to portray him as a feeble old man who suffers from dementia.

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