Clapp was declared "infirm in body … yet … of memory and understanding competent". Harvard Law School Historical & Special Collections, Small Manuscript Collection.
The Blackwood girls are the last surviving remnants of this grand old family, along with Uncle Julian, infirm in body and often in mind.
"The spirit flourishes more strongly and more actively in an infirm and weakly body," the twelfth-century French abbot St. Bernard of Clairvaux assured his followers.
Salcedo was advanced in years and somewhat infirm of mind as well as of body.
How was it that anyone, much less an infirm septuagenarian, could record such a splendid and voluminous body of work?
In addition to the city's population, there is frequently a large floating population of pilgrims, who sometimes bring the bodies of the deceased for interment or come with elderly and infirm family members who wish to live their last days in the holy city before being buried there.
The most nakedly striving of the stories seems to be "Clay," which jumps to a future a few years away in which the infirm will download their memories -- their conscious minds -- from their failing bodies, so that a part of them is left behind.
When we make it impossible for the dispossessed to rest their weary bodies at a bus shelter, we also make it impossible for the elderly, for the infirm, for the pregnant woman who has had a dizzy spell.
Besides, burying dead bodies far from home has a cost that is hard to measure, forcing mourners, many of them infirm and elderly, to make expensive and difficult journeys to the grave.
Others were infirm persons.
