...Suchmeat was only for the old, the toothless, and the decrepit who nolonger could make their kills among the fleet-footed grass-eaters...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
... There werenone of your old roers[1] and decrepit Enfields, which I had seen signsof in Kaffir kraals...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...From somewhere some one brought an old table and two decrepit chairs, battered and rickety in themselves, but symbols of great authority in a community where nobody habitually used either...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...“Thirty-two isn’t decrepit...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905」
... 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」
...There is a littlehere of all that the first beginnings of vegetable life add to oldtree-trunks, all that breaks up decrepit age to turn it intoperpetual youth...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...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」
...Alittle boy, whose woollen nightcap is pressed over a most venerable flowing periwig, andthe decrepit old man, leaning upon a crutch-stick, who is walking before him, "I onceconsidered," says Mr...
John Trusler 「The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings」
...So Peredur was reared amongst women and decrepit old men, and eventhese were strictly commanded never to tell the boy aught of thegreat world beyond the forest, or what men did therein...
Beatrice Clay 「Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion」
...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」
...She was neither disgusted nor amused by the darktorrent that stirred in this decrepit old fisherman...
Roman Frederick Starzl 「The Martian Cabal」
...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)」
...Theriver seemed to get broader, deeper, and more rapid as we ascended; thetrackers, on the contrary, became thinner, narrower, and more decrepit...
George Ernest Morrison 「An Australian in China」
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