Like an infirm man lowering himself into his favorite armchair, the Morgan was carefully inched down a platform, taking its place in the water over about 20 minutes.
In one room -- a hovel, really -- down a long, stone passageway off a narrow, dark street lives an old and infirm man.
The play, also still in process, is the tale of an elderly, wealthy, infirm man and his attempt to write his memoirs.
He is also an infirm man, as the book is set a short time before his death on September 20 , 1840
Watching the endless replays of the 65-year-old Mr. Hussein meeting with his inner circle, it is hard not to wonder if Iraq, too, isn't burdened with a system that has packed the upper levels of power with aging, infirm men inured by long experience not to question and never to challenge, and thus incapable now of placing their own hands more firmly on the tiller.
Victims of spotted hyenas tend to be women, children and sick or infirm men, and there are numerous cases of biologists in Africa being forced up trees in order to escape them.
The findings showed an attenuation of the diurnal pattern among less active subgroups (e.g. older and more infirm men).
At 78, he is, his friends and wife point out, an infirm old man who does not always recognise his friends and is given to uncharacteristic bursts of bad temper.
An elderly, infirm Jewish man who moved from Germany to England before the war says that a 1710 painting of Hampton Court Palace by the Dutch artist Jan Griffier the Elder, now in the Tate Gallery, was owned by his parents.
Take Floyd Patterson, who was so embarrassed after losing his world heavyweight crown to Sonny Liston in 1962 that he donned a fake beard, flew to Madrid and spent the next few days hobbling around the Spanish capital with a stick, eating only soup and doing his best impersonation of an infirm old man.
The trial proceedings themselves, with their emphasis on the preponderance of women, children and infirm old men among the victims, gave evidence of how standards have slipped; nor is there anything in the accepted rules of war to justify the unnecessary killing of unarmed, unresisting men, however able-bodied.
