Sentence examples for their infirmity from inspiring English sources

Some stricken with pun-lust sink so far into their infirmity that their minds become trained to lie in wait for words on which to work their wickedness.

The British gave them generous pensions and allowed them to hold shows of pomp and ceremony periodically - despite their infirmity, they retained, in British eyes, the symbolic value of belonging to India's oldest and most prestigious ruling dynasty.

After all, the sisters are not alone in their infirmities.

"Most work hard, to their very capacity, limited only by their infirmities," he said.

In this novel, the young are dull and clueless, but the elderly, despite their infirmities, are brilliant.

They were tended in their infirmities by the religious communities which not only offered them prayers and spiritual solace, but set up the first hospitals for their care.

If Mr. Geoghegan truly wants to preserve majority rule, he should protest its most flagrant abuse rather than rules, whatever their infirmities, that have been used in their current form by both political parties for 35 years.

It is a not uncommon occurrence among people with dementia to couple up, even if their infirmities limit the relationship to hand-holding or a peck on the cheek.

In a country where a journalist was fined and jailed two years ago for speculating in print about the health of Mr. Mubarak, in this race leading candidates detailed their infirmities, and one volunteered his medical records in a televised debate.

Sebright was a baronet, who impressed Charles Darwin by writing in his pamphlet "The Art of Improving the Breeds of Domestic Animals" (1809) that "the weak and unhealthy do not live to propagate their infirmities".

"Older voters really know what the measure of their infirmities are, even if they are well," said Herbert L. Abrams, a professor of radiology at Stanford University who has written extensively on aging and presidential leadership (and who is 88).