Young and frail fair ones.

Yet what frail thin-spun flowers She casts into the air, To breathe the sunshine, and To leave her fragrance there.

The life of this sometime friend of his hung by so frail a link, he had such utter need of kindness; so what could Gilbert do but console him for the loss of his wife, and endeavour to inspire him with a hopeful spirit about her?

168, n. 2; Sanquhar's trial, v. 103, n. 2; style, i. 219; Turks, their want of Stirpes, ii. 421; 'who then to frail mortality,' &c., v. 89; mentioned, i. 431, n. 2; ii. 53, n. 2, 158.

Who, then, shall glory in his post? How frail his pride, how vain his boast!

He wondered vaguely if he had been wise to lean upon so frail a reed as Fogerty seemed to be; and above all he wondered where poor Louise was, and if terror and alarm were breaking her heart.

oh this frontier between the military and citizens: "Military gentlemen, when stationed at remote posts, too often 'feel power and forget right,' and the history of our army is replete with instances proving incontestably by how frail a tenure our liberties would be held, were it not for the paramount authority and redeeming spirit of our civil institutions.

You lay like a little lamb in my arms, So frail a thing, so weak,

And if there seemed no cause for her depression, he warred silently with the power that stooped to harm so frail a creature.

In appearance Albert Digbee was a tall, slender, but scarcely frail youth, with a cleanly cut face that looked, in the firelight, far too pale.