... There werenone of your old roers[1] and decrepit Enfields, which I had seen signsof in Kaffir kraals...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...He has been so much affected by the sesenda that he is quite decrepit, and requires to be fed...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South 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」
... 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」
... No matter how decrepit the latter, he has been taughtto be independent, self-supporting...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
...They ought to have got the better of such a sicklyand decrepit product of décadence...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906」
...Except in the case of the very decrepit, or totally disabled,there can be no excuse for begging, in a country which offersevery pauper a quarter-section of as rich land as the sun shinesupon...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...Then the male, grown old and decrepit, takes counselwith himself, hunts no more, becomes shaky in his walk, creeps downfrom the lofty heights of the trellised dome and at last collapses onthe ground...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...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」
...In former days a glorious mantle ofivy had covered the rough stones; butnow there was little left, and whatthere was looked pitifully decrepit...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 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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