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“I just didn’t want you mistaking him for a frail old man or something,” Nelson added.

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The more he tries to appear mighty, the more he seems increasingly frail in his rapidly aging body.

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She was frail, but as always extremely glamorous and totally captivating.

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The band missed a day in the recording studio because of the delay, but Steadman "felt much, much worse for the others", which included passengers who were "very young and very frail".

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Once the backbone of the country's agricultural sector, many of them are now elderly, visibly frail, battling illness and financially desperate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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