Sentences with phrase «sickly old»

My personal experience of Asian longhorns occurred a year ago when investigating a sickly old maple in my back yard and finding these large white larvae in the tree.

By 1489, when Michelangelo first began to attend sessions at Lorenzo's garden, Bertoldo was a sickly old man (he would die two years later), and he worked almost exclusively in bronze, a medium Michelangelo famously despised.

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He paused then, at the thought of earthly sorrows, Our sickly past, incarnadine tomorrows, The myriad things that whistle arcane truth To please old minds and to instruct raw youth, And bore down on his broken knees to pray For such a world that had so much to say.

But they were *** 8 up in their turn By old - style folks in hats and coats, Who half the time were sickly - sweet, And half at one anthers» throats.

Throughout a rather sickly, sheltered, happy boyhood and a more independent but never obstreperous youth, an ingrained confidence in people — especially older people — and a naive trust in God never wavered.

They look at the continual preoccupation of the old - fashioned Christian with the salvation of his soul as something sickly and reprehensible rather than admirable; and a sanguine and «muscular» attitude, which to our forefathers would have seemed purely heathen, has become in their eyes an ideal element of Christian character.

I've just got done reading your early potty training advice column and am at home for the fifth day in a row with my sickly three year old.

In January a veterinarian noticed a drawn and sickly 8 - year - old cow at a slaughterhouse in Alberta.

I went from doing the kind of yoga that a sickly 85 - year - old would do and jumped into an Ashtanga class.

Yep, there's the grumpy, old penny - pincher killjoy, Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer) and by contrast the charming sickly little guy, Tiny Tim, (Pearse Kearney) with his crutch.

Undertow tells the story of a Southern family: a soft - spoken father, John (Dermot Mulroney), a troublesome older boy, Chris (Jamie Bell), and a sickly younger boy, Tim (Devon Alan); their mother has long ago passed on.

Rhodes arrived in South Africa as a sickly 16 - year - old, sent there by his family in the hope that his health would improve.

Noble has a soft spot for cast - off kittens: her 2 - year - old blind cat, Davey, came to SDHS as a sickly 5 - week - old.

I had adopted Bug as a sickly (actually near death) and underweight 6 month old.

The young, weak, old and sickly are vulnerable to being attacked and eaten.

On the same day she got the job offer from the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine as the clinical assistant professor of medical oncology at the Veterinary Hospital, Intile began fostering a 3 - week - old sickly cat she later adopted.

Remember that pet insurance is not just for older, sickly pets.

When you came to me from a puppy mill — almost 2 years old, dull - eyed, sickly and paralyzed with fear.

Alfalfa hay is higher in calcium and protein, so it is good for babies, nursing moms, and old or sickly bunnies.

It started with a group of friends that would routinely take «unadoptable», older, or sickly animals to a sanctuary in order to avoid being euthanized and to allow sick animals to heal and rehabilitate.

For twelve hours, my awkward, sickly 15 year - old self was Spider - Man.

They're bright, come on instantly, don't have that sickly fluorescent color i associate with basements and offices, and fit all of my old fixtures.

With life insurance you pay an annual premium that could be fixed, or could go up significantly the older, more sickly, or more likely to die you become (depending on your type of coverage).