Infirmly

Word INFIRMLY
Character 8
Hyphenation in firm ly
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I believe rather infirmly (I have a relatively weak memory belief here) that the population of greater New York is more than 17 million; I also believe that the area of greater New York is 1,384 square miles; that proposition is many times more likely with respect to the serious alternative hypothesis that the population of New York is less than 10 million. ❋ 1932- (2000)

The Margarita, that was next to the Consolacion in greatness, sailed so infirmly that mercy 'twas the seas were smooth. ❋ Unknown (1922)

The _Margarita_, that was next to the _Consolacion_ in greatness, sailed so infirmly that mercy 'twas the seas were smooth. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

Here the status of women as vicarious consumers is beginning to lose its place in the sections of the body of the people; and as a consequence the ideal of feminine beauty is beginning to change back again from the infirmly delicate, translucent, and hazardously slender, to a woman of the archaic type that does not disown her hands and feet, nor, indeed, the other gross material facts of her person. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Yahoo, that I walked infirmly on my hinder feet, had found out a contrivance to make my claws of no use or defense, and to remove the hair from my chin, which was intended as a shelter from the sun and the weather. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Zerrilla had admitted them, and at her greeting a young fellow in the shabby shore-suit of a sailor, buttoning imperfectly over the nautical blue flannel of his shirt, got up from where he had been sitting, on one side of the stove, and stood infirmly on his feet, in token of receiving the visitor. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

She is covered with heavy drapery, stands infirmly as if about to fall, _is bound by a cord round her neck to an image_ which she carries in her hand, and has flames bursting forth at her feet. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Mr. Blyth, however, was beyond all comparison the more laughable object of the two, as he soared nervously into the air on Mat's foot, tottering infirmly in the strong grasp that supported him, till he seemed to be trembling all over, from the tips of his crisp black hair to the flying tails of his frock-coat. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)

"Oh, Lavvie! the Dowager Countess is downstairs, and her ladyship likes the pictures," exclaimed the old man, snuffling and smiling infirmly in ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)

He moved infirmly, being on the recovery from an illness. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

One of the older ones probably in mid-80s could not control her inquisitiveness and walked over infirmly while balancing herself in the moving train. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That as to myfelf it was manifeft, I had neither the llrength or agility of a common yaboo; that I walked infirmly on my hinder feet; had found out a contrivance to make my claws of no ufe or defence, and to remove the hair from my chin, which was intended as a fhelter from the fun and the weather. ❋ Unknown (1768)

It was hazardous enough to attempt the practice of her novel profession under the best of circumstances, but to keep herself in abeyance so far as not to be known at all in it, and, at the same time, to give way to her interest in it to the extent of coming out, with her infirmly established health, into that wintry weather, and superintending the preparations for the first folly she had planned, was a risk altogether too great for her. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

He said that he had always felt bound "-- She stopped, and he got infirmly to his feet. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

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