He perceived the sword now, heavy and sharp, and suspended by a thread of appalling fragility.

And yet how many marvelous forces underlie this apparent fragility!

She seemed of such a delicate, chaste fragility that she could be shattered by a single harsh touch.

Still with violence (slightly modulated to spare the comparative fragility of the objects she was handling) she dashed them one by one upon the table where Essy, with elbows planted, propped her head upon her hands and wept.

She seemed of such a delicate, chaste fragility that she could be shattered by a single harsh touch.

There is something fitting in the rugged simplicity which commemorates the grand old Bishop, and in the exquisite fragility of the shrine of the virgin saint.

And, by the side of George Cannon on the platform, she was aware of her shabbiness and of her girlish fragility.

The controversy as to the relative fragility, or the relative difficulty, of popular government and other forms of government, appears to be a controversy of this kind.

What confirms me in the opinion that Mr. Fornum's cameo is the most veracious portrait we possess of Michelangelo in old age, is that its fragility of structure, the tenuity of life vigorous but infinitely refined, reappears in the weak drawing made by Francesco d'Olanda of Buonarroti in hat and mantle.