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Example sentences for "enfeebles"

Lexicographically close words:
enfant; enfants; enfeeble; enfeebled; enfeeblement; enfeebling; enfeoffed; enfermedad; enfevered; enfilade
  1. He was not of those whose Christian liberality slackens and enfeebles devotion to their own communion.

  2. Too frequent use of steam, however, enfeebles the constitution, and it is of the highest importance to apply steam with due deliberation.

  3. This incurable disease enfeebles our mind and leads us to an early grave, after making us drag a miserable existence for a short while.

  4. But while such a liquid attacks with special energy the yellow and green, it enfeebles the whole spectrum.

  5. This enfeebles the muscles of the back, and exhausts the nervous energy, while the erect position favors their development and power, because there is an alternate contraction and relaxation of the muscles.

  6. This enfeebles and prostrates the parts that supply the blood and nervous fluid to the active organ.

  7. The restricted waist will not admit of a full and deep inspiration and so essential is this to health, that abuse in this respect soon enfeebles and destroys the functions of the system.

  8. The long-continued tension of a muscle enfeebles its action, and eventually destroys its contractility.

  9. The pressure of tight dresses, under the name of a "snug fit," enfeebles the muscles of the back, and is a common cause of projecting shoulders and curvature of the spinal column.

  10. It is an idle passion, which enfeebles the heart and blinds the judgment; it renders the mighty weak, and makes slaves of princes.

  11. It is an idle passion which enfeebles the heart and blinds the judgment.

  12. Love is an idle passion, which enfeebles the soul and blinds the judgment.

  13. When it emerges in its true form it never enfeebles life, but strengthens it and ever renews its freshness and health, when, left to its own resources, it has become weak and diseased.

  14. Depression of spirits enfeebles all the animal powers; and particularly disturbs digestion, thereby deranging the whole system.

  15. The tender and delicate manner in which they are bred, enfeebles their constitutions, and greatly diminishes their usefulness, in every station of life.

  16. Excessive sexual indulgence not only prostrates the nervous system, enfeebles the body, and drains the blood of its vivifying elements, but is inconsistent with intellectual activity, morality, and spiritual development.

  17. Any thing that enfeebles the functional powers of the system is liable to disqualify the female for reproduction.

  18. Against this dangerous influence of the world, Christ has set the contagion of godliness within His Church, and every avoidable subdivision enfeebles this salutary counter-influence.

  19. Now, there is nothing which enfeebles the spirit and breaks the courage like religious dependence.

  20. Above the vivid bow hangs its spectral secondary brother, in which a double reflection within each raindrop enfeebles the colours, and inverts the order of succession.

  21. But while the liquid attacks with special energy the yellow and green colours, it enfeebles the whole spectrum; and by increasing the thickness of the stratum we absorb the whole of the light.

  22. And as intoxication enfeebles the body, and engenders indolent habits, so this unnatural stimulus enfeebles the intellectual powers, induces mental indolence, and unfits the mind for vigorous efforts.

  23. The woman who enfeebles her muscular system by sedentary occupation, and over-stimulates her brain and nervous system, when she becomes a mother, perpetuates these evils to her offspring.


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