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Example sentences for "feble"

Lexicographically close words:
featureless; features; featuring; feaver; feaze; febrifuge; febrile; febris; fecal; fecche
  1. A knight callid on a tyme scipion of affricque fowle & olde knyght in armes And that he knewe lityll good And he answerd I was born of my moder a lityll child and feble and not a man of armes.

  2. The stronge the feble overgoth; But I, that were my simple cloth, Robbe bothe robbed and robbours, And gyle gyled and gylours.

  3. And for they ben tendre and feble to holde togyder in the begynnynge; theyfore about those smale grene leuys ben nyghe the red and tendre leuys .

  4. In Wynter and in Somer it maye be geuen competently to feble sicke mel[=a]coly and colorike people.

  5. And sclendre wyves, feble as in bataille, Beth egre as is a tygre yond in Inde; Ay clappeth as a mille, I yow consaille.

  6. Usage of labour is a greet thing; for it maketh, as seith seint Bernard, the laborer to have stronge armes and harde sinwes; and Slouthe maketh hem feble and tendre.

  7. Hir husbande which loued her dearely, comfortying his feble louing wyfe so well as he coulde, caused the best Physicians he could finde, to come vnto hir for recouery of hir health.

  8. I sayd therfore, 90 thy stocke must be stronge, and in greetnesse wel herted: the tree is ful feble that at the firste dent falleth.

  9. He woll serve bothe erl and king For his fynding and his fee, And hyde his tything and his offring; 795 This is a feble charite.

  10. Yet may ye wel repele your businesse And to resoun somwhat have attendaunce, 650 Moch better than to byde, by fol simplesse, The feble socour of desesperaunce.

  11. Or they yef the bishops why, Or they mot ben in his servyce, And holden forth hir harlotry; Such prelats ben of feble empryse.

  12. All is good that they mow get, 785 They wene to live evermore; But, whan god at dome is set, Such tresour is a feble store.

  13. This whit waselede in the feen Almost to the ancle; Foure rotheren hym byforne, That feble were worthi; Men myghte reknen ich a ryb, So rentful they weren.

  14. And thyder they came wythin two dayes for they were weyke & feble to go.

  15. And thyder they came wythin two dayes for they were weyke and feble to go.

  16. For it is nat to wene that thilke thing, that is most worthy of alle thinges, be feble and with-oute strengthe.

  17. How ofte have I resisted and withstonde thilke man that highte 40 Conigaste, that made alwey assautes ayeins the prospre fortunes of pore feble folk?

  18. Or elles they knowen ful wel whiche thinges that they oughten folwe, but lecherye and coveityse overthroweth hem mistorned; and certes, 130 so doth distemperaunce to feble men, that ne mowen nat wrastlen ayeins the vyces.

  19. But what thing is more feble and more caitif thanne is the blindnesse of ignoraunce?

  20. I ete there unthende fisshe, And feble ale drynke; Ac outher while whan wyn cometh, Thanne I drynke wyn at eve, And have a flux of a foul mouth Wel fyve dayes after.

  21. Very weake and feble to withstande or resiste, and of lesse defence.

  22. So when wee shall have looked and narrowly pried into the Spanishe forces in America, wee shalbe doubtles ashamed of ourselves, that wee have all this while bene afraied of those dissemblinge and feble scarr crowes.

  23. Such presumptuouse wordes wyll haue a fall your comparyson is but feble and small What can ye do nothyng at all As you haue reputed.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.