frail

• The child was very weak and frail, and for some months it was thought hardly possible it could live; but Destiny decreed that the boy should not perish The first recollections of Liszt take in, in a happy view, four men playing cards at a square table. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
• They were soon rolling away Florence saw nothing till they gained the bridge,--frail, trembling thing, thrown at such dizzy height above the wild, rushing river. —  Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
• Wan, frail, the beautiful anguished evil face of a girl could be seen through the long tangled hair framing it. —  Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2
• What matters it that this frame of dust be frail, and of tiny size--still may it be the tenement of a lordly spirit. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• The construction of these inclosures is frail, and the danger of pushing the stakes over by pressure from within is guarded against by employing forked braces that abut against horizontal pieces tied on 4 or 5 feet from the ground. —  A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228

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