"Frailness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her, to halt only when one weak white hand faltered up with absurd pretension of a power to ward him off. Nor was it her hand that made him stop then. That barrier confessed its frailness in every drooping line. Again it was the involuntary submission of her whole poise—she had actually leaned a little further toward him when he started, even as her hand went up. But the helpless misery in her eyes was still a defense, passive ...
— The Seeker • Harry Leon Wilson
... up and down those long, cold streets, scowling at the little, sleeping houses on either side, with their storm-windows and covered back porches. They were flimsy shelters, most of them poorly built of light wood, with spindle porch-posts horribly mutilated by the turning-lathe. Yet for all their frailness, how much jealousy and envy and unhappiness some of them managed to contain! The life that went on in them seemed to me made up of evasions and negations; shifts to save cooking, to save washing and cleaning, devices to propitiate the tongue of gossip. This guarded ...
— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather
... ensample you may see, The frailness of mankind, How oft he falleth in folly Through temptation of the fiend: For when the fiend and the flesh be at one assent, Then Conscience clear is clean outcast. Men think not on the great judgment, That the seely soul shall have at the last, But would God all men would have in mind ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I. • R. Dodsley
... her eyes wide, but she had no reply. He took one step toward her and then stopped, impotent before her frailness, his glance wavering toward the door into the loft which mutely stared at him. Hermia would have gone by now—she must have gone. The way had been clear for twenty minutes. He looked away, and then, since ...
— Madcap • George Gibbs |
