"Can you compare me to an American?" Mr. Hassan said, stretching his frail arms forward.
As their frail arms drove deep and deeper into the pile, as they pulled out one stringy silken after another, holding it expertly up to the light for inspection, I grew hot with embarrassment.
"I use public transport all the time, to buy groceries at the market," says Ms Odintsova, lifting her frail arms to show the two lumpy bags in her hands, and smiling slightly to show the two remaining, stained teeth behind her sunken cheeks.
He despises the mouse's physical delicacy, his weak arms as thin as the teeth of combs, his frail, crushable skull, his fondness for books and solitude.
One overwrought young girl burst through security lines on Saturday night and hurled herself into the frail pope's arms as if he were a pop star, and he gently patted her head as she wept on his shoulder.
I grab her frail and injured arms and shake her.
Inside the cathedral, a frail George held the arm of another priest as he walked down the center aisle and up the stairs to the altar.
Indeed, the presence of a distinguished, elderly and visibly frail statesman under small-arms and artillery fire was much remarked on and admired.
