feeble-minded

The vagueness of the project, and the convulsive effort with which he plunges into the execution of it, are equally characteristic of a feeble-minded man.

“The consideration of this subject is full of consolation, my hearers, and does not fail to bring with it lessons of humility and of profit, that, duly improved, would both chasten the heart and strengthen the feeble-minded man in his course.

Georgiana said she dreaded being left alone with Eliza; from her she got neither sympathy in her dejection, support in her fears, nor aid in her preparations; so I bore with her feeble-minded wailings and selfish lamentations as well as I could, and did my best in sewing for her and packing her dresses.

be confined in feeble-minded homes, but who were not strong enough to be ought else than hewers of wood and drawers of water.

A state home for the feeble-minded had also been demolished to make room for the deer.

It must be either that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded, that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner, and the greater her knowledge, the wider her liberty, the deeper will be her depravity, - whereas, in the nobler sex, there is a natural tendency to goodness, guarded by a superior fortitude, which, the more it is exercised by trials and dangers, is only the further developed - '

As she passed by him he was acutely conscious of her femininity, though he saw by her face that she was sensual and feeble-minded. He rose and went into the cell.

One that the feeble-minded can remember the words of and those ignorant of music can whistle or sing.

Under cover of the night, the feeble-minded beadle comes flitting about Chancery Lane with his summonses, in which every juror's name is wrongly spelt, and nothing rightly spelt but the beadle's own name, which nobody can read or wants to know.

The OPC has no place for feeble-minded who will claim to be a servant of the people in the day but would collude with vampires and hyenas in the night to undermine the interest of Yoruba nation,' he added.

A breath of Trumpish fresh air after the Cameron:May era of myopic, feeble-minded elitism.

It is unfortunate that some feeble-minded people have been swept into the Kardashian frenzy which grew out of nothing more significant than a mother carefully cultivating her daughters into publicly displaying their bodies through a series of semi-nude poses.