"Frailness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for the open air. The filmy traceries of Gothic fretwork; the needle-like minarets; the hundreds of beautiful statues with which it is studded; the intricate and graceful architecture of every window and turret; and the frost-like frailness and delicacy of the whole mass, make an effect altogether upon the eye that must stand high on the list of new sensations. It is a vast structure withal, but a middling easterly breeze, one would think on looking at it, would ...
— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux
... weather-worn sails, was pitched on a hill-side lot, unsightly with sand and thorny bushes, filthy cast-aways of clothing, worn-out boots, and broken bottles. The forlorn loneliness of this poor abode, and the perfection of its Californianness, in all the circumstances of exposure, frailness, destitution, and dirt, were enough of themselves to make it an object of interest to the not-too-busy passer; yet, to complete its pitiful picturesqueness, Pathos had bestowed a case of miniatures and a beautiful child. Beside the entrance ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various
... think that I was to be shamed with the taint of disgrace, with thy frailness to thy word and thy ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned") |
