In one room - a hovel, really - down a long, stone passageway off a narrow, dark street lives an old and infirm man.
One of the five divisions was reserved for "the more aged and infirm men."
Eventually the "fifth division" of "aged and infirm men" was dropped, as was the maximum age limit from 60 to 50.
The troops also shot down John Raymond, an infirm man residing in the family.
Viagra, although generally considered to be a safe drug, has been linked to sudden cardiovascular death during sexual activity among elderly or otherwise infirm men.
Seeing the door open, he had risen up, smitten with sudden terror as became an infirm old man.
He is also an infirm man, as the book is set a short time before his death on September 20, 1840.
Six months had passed, and he was coming back as a weak, broken, shattered, doddering, infirm old man of eighty.
The play, also still in process, is the tale of an elderly, wealthy, infirm man and his attempt to write his memoirs.
This was what his small army of infirm old men understood; he gave a purpose to the ends of their lives.