Feble

And zee schulle undirstonde, that before the Chirche of the Sepulcre, is the cytee more feble than in ony othere partie, for the grete playn that is betwene the chirche and the cytee. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Such as cã not hãdsomly vse them selues in that mery conceyted slendernes of wordes, fall into a drye and feble kynde of oracion. ❋ Richard Sherry (N/A)

True it is, that for the long absence of my husbande (not able to resist the prickes of the fleshe, and the force of loue) whiche be of suche great effect, that they haue many times past and yet daily do vanquishe and ouercome, not only feble and weake women, but also the strongest men. ❋ William Painter (N/A)

+ Þe rapes þe weren icast to him {;} bitacneð þe herdnesse of scrifte. for nis nan of us se strong þe hefde idon þre hef [ed] sunnen þ̵ his licome nere swiðe feble er he hefde idreȝen þet  {70} sc {ri} ft þe þer to bilimpeð. ❋ Joseph Hall (N/A)

By litle and litle he consumed, as sleting snow against the warme Sone: wherwith he came to suche feble state, that he could neither slepe, nor eate, and was compelled to kepe his bedde, in suche wyse, that with superfluous paine he was brought to marueylous debilitie. ❋ William Painter (N/A)

Syr Arthur was passynge feble, and wende veryly to have dyed, but for al that he made countenaunce as though he myghte endure, and helde Accolon as shorte as he myght. ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)

It chaunced at that very instant, that the Queene Stratonica entred into the chamber, whom so sone as the yonge man sawe comming toward him, sodainly the poulse which were weake and feble, began to reuiue through mutation of the bloud. ❋ William Painter (N/A)

  {10} Ah his licome wes se swiðe feble {;} þ̵ he ne mihte noht iþolie þe herdnesse of þe rapes. þa sende me claðes ut of þes kinges huse for to bi {} winden þe rapes. þ̵ his licome þe feble wes ne sc ` e´olde noht wursien. ❋ Joseph Hall (N/A)

[132] So the MS.; Pepwell reads: "were feble and fayle"; and Caxton: ❋ Henry Pepwell (1902)

Nature I say, doth paynt them furthe to be weake, fraile, impacient, feble and foolishe: and experience hath declared them to be vnconstant, variable, cruell and lacking the spirit of counsel and regiment. ❋ 1514-1572 (1878)

[Sidenote: Beware of green meat; it weakens your belly.] bewar {e} of saladis, grene metis, & of frut {es} rawe for þey make many a mañ haue a feble mawe. ❋ Frederick James Furnivall (1867)

'Et volons que nul maheme nesoit tenus forsque de membre toilet dount home est plus feble a combatre, sicome, del oyl, on de la mayn, ou del pie, on de la tete debruse, ou de les dentz devant.' ❋ Jefferson, Thomas (1829)

` Et volons que nul maheme ne soit tenusforsque de membre tollet dount home es plus feble a combatre, sicome del oyl, ou de la mayn, ou del pie, ou de la tete debruse, ou de les dentz devant. ' ❋ Unknown (1775)

So when wee shall have looked and narrowly pried into the Spanishe forces in America, wee shalbe doubtles ashamed of ourselves, that wee have all this while bene afraied of those dissemblinge and feble scarr crowes. ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)

Very weake and feble to withstande or resiste, and of lesse defence. ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)

¶ State assumptiue is whan the defence is feble of it selfe/but yet it may be holpen by some other thynge added to it. ❋ Leonard Cox (1528)

Joining the FEBL Hall of Fame, today, we have Primal Therapy, [Intelligent Design], and Gary [Null's] [anti-vaccination] propaganda. ❋ OpusAtrum (2008)