"Debile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and put on the new cassock he had brought with him, when, at nine o'clock precisely, he heard a discreet knock at his door. A little priest came in, a man scarcely thirty years of age, but thin and debile of build, with a long, seared, saffron-coloured face. For two years past attacks of fever, coming on every day at the same hour, had been consuming him. Nevertheless, whenever he forgot to control the black eyes which lighted ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... dans les grands jours, Toute honte a present etait la bienvenue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Epaphrodite avait un homme pour hochet Et brisait en jouant les membres d'Epictete. Femme grosse, vieillard debile, enfant qui tette, Captifs, gladiateurs, chretiens, etaient jetes Aux betes, et, tremblants, blemes, ensanglantes, Fuyaient, et l'agonie effaree et vivante Se tordait dans le cirque, abime d'epouvante. Pendant que l'ours grondait, et que les elephants, Effroyables, marchaient ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo |
