...What if he was a young, powerful, cunning, and ferocious beast?In the face of hunger, the great leveler, he was as the old, thetoothless, and the decrepit...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
... There werenone of your old roers[1] and decrepit Enfields, which I had seen signsof in Kaffir kraals...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...His back was bent, and his limbs were somewhat shrunken, but he did not appear in the least degree decrepit...
Various 「Stories by English Authors: Africa」
...On one occasion a poor girl had run away from the ill-treatment of her master, and had taken refuge in the house of a decrepit old man...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
... There are, of course, public cars also, each with its pair of boys to push it; and also a number of rather decrepit rickshaws...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...From somewhere some one brought an old table and two decrepit chairs, battered and rickety in themselves, but symbols of great authority in a community where nobody habitually used either...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
... In place of the decrepit, one-eyedarmy mule he had put up the night before, a fat, sleek specimen ofvigorous mulehood greeted his arrival with the sonorous hehaw of lustyyouth...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...“Thirty-two isn’t decrepit...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905」
...No matter how decrepit the latter, he has been taughtto be independent, self-supporting...
Emma Goldman 「Marriage and Love」
...At twelve or thirteen, he is as decrepit as is the averagehuman of seventy...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...He seemed almost decrepit with age, and had a very remarkable appearance, from one of his immense tusks being broken off, leaving a ragged stump of about a foot in length...
George E. Waring 「The Squirrels and other animals」
...As it left the nature of the classic world and loosenedits grasp on things tangible it became feeble and decrepit in itsform...
John C. Van Dyke 「A Text-Book of the History of Painting」
...y the time the decrepit but life-saving little local drew into GilaBend they had somewhat recovered from their harrowing experience...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930」
...The infirm and decrepit man, in approaching his end, sometimes perceives himself that reason is leaving him, he feels that prejudice returns...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
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