infirm

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Infirm and elderly passengers needed to be lifted into the tightly packed transport.

From US News • Jan. 31, 2015

For this reason, Dr. Frederic Zeman, head physician at Manhattan's Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, insists on a semantic distinction, doggedly calls these changes "diseases in old age," not "of old age."

From Time Magazine Archive

Infirm old men and little children, crazy-looking devotees and comely youths, boys and girls, people of all ages and degrees, are represented in the motley groups who come to these muddy waters for moral purification.

From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Infirm herself, my mother dear Now guides, methinks, the tottering feet Of my blind father, for they hear And hasten eagerly to meet Our fancied steps.

From Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Dutt, Toru

Infirm as I am, I have need of comfortable Room and Accommodations.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell