frailness

This woman was small, and thin to the point of frailness.

It always hurt him when he realized the frailness of his body.

Despite her frailness, she shows a remarkable independence of spirit.

From 1923 on, he showed signs of increasing frailness and illness.

Additionally, his physical frailness led him to start studying Medicine.

She seemed frail beside him and aware of that frailness.

She merely had not quite the frailness of the others, and there was some lustre to her brown hair.

Here the inherent frailness was given a little boost.

"For someone of my age and frailness, this is reassurance of most great value."

His frailness led him to cancel a visit to the United States that had been scheduled last month.

And perhaps, he thought, the melancholy that now came over him was unconnected to her frailness, no longer so apparent.

Of his strength, masked by the surface frailness.

Truth staggered backward over the threshold, Light's chill frailness a slack weight in her arms.

Her frailness worried him, though Feylin was optimistic.

He enlisted for military service during the American Civil War but was not accepted due to "frailness of body".

As he heard the voice, The Shadow noted the frailness of the wrist that he gripped.

The jurors were not impressed with the dire warnings about pollution and the frailness of wetland ecology.

He was nicked named the "Sparrow" by the Russian press, due to his frailness.

There is more frailness now in her feisty grandmother, and her grandfather spends much time in his room.

Her frailness touched him; he was angry at Eddie Swanson for the incessant family bickering.

This gives one a realizing sense of the frailness of a Mississippi boat and the briefness of its life.

Throughout their marriage, he flailed at her physically; his tubercular frailness, however, prevented him from doing much harm to the robust Frieda.

He was slightly built, and, like Callina, looked fragile; but it was the "perfect tensile frailness of a dagger."

Stuart found one of the chairs, and realized that its frailness rendered it useless as a battering ram against that door.