"Fragile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fragile now and weak, Was late the seat of vital power, But now, alas! he cannot speak, He's ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various
... were standing on the shore beside a birch-bark canoe, so fragile and unstable that the slightest imprudence on the part of its occupants ...
— Ticket No. "9672" • Jules Verne
... nearer to it now and could more clearly distinguish the features. They reminded her somewhat of herself. There were the same round cheeks, the same small childishness of lips and nose and chin, the same pale complexion tinged with fragile pink, the same big, blue eyes. Had he taken an interest in her because she was like this girl, this girl whose miniature he had allowed to be the only breaking note in the whole symphony of his scheme of decoration? They were like each other, ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston
... on with redoubled energy till an event occurred, unimportant in itself, but which caused him some uneasiness, and reminded him of the need of caution. The rock in places was fragile and split up by the weather, and with a slight touch of his foot he loosened an immense fragment of stone, which went rolling down the side of the mountain till it reached a projecting ledge hundreds of feet below. ...
— Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... seventeen," says Mrs. Shelley, "fragile in health and frame, of the purest habits in morals, full of devoted generosity and universal kindness, glowing with ardor to attain wisdom, resolved at every personal sacrifice to do right, burning with a desire for affection and sympathy, ...
— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold
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