frails

But now I mean to send thee to the fish-bazar, where do thou enquire for the shop of Humayd the fisherman and say to him, ‘My master Khalif saluteth thee and biddeth thee send him a pair of frails and a knife, so he may bring thee more fish than yesterday.’

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Tormented by drugs and alcohol, the frailest of the frails, Anita made every other girl singer look wholesome.

GreenCine Daily: Grimly reaping, 11/24. 2006

Turning Misty Knight and Colleen Wing into terrified frails is what got me riled.

Just Past the Horizon: On Reflection 2007

The fiddle wails, the banjo frails and a few members of the audience actually stand up to do impromptu clog-style jigs.

Banjos, Kazoos and Spoons—Oh My! 2007

"Not the distaff or the wool-frails, but spears dripping from the slaughter, have served for our handling."

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

Well upon dis, de Pharisees picked up der frails and cut away right by him, and as dey passed by him he felt sich a queer pain in de head as if somebody had gi'en him a lamentable hard thump wud

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Dey pulled off dere jackets and begun to thresh wud two liddle frails as dey had brung wud em at de hem of a rate.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

The body was pushed under an old truckle-bed which stood in the corner, and a mass of frails, such as gardeners use, flung over it for concealment.

The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

Bales, crates, boxes, jars, carboys, frails, cases, and packages flew into them from the freight-house as though the cars had been magnets and they iron filings.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

He has stripped my rails of the shaddock-frails and the green unripened pine;

Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900