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Which classic novel features a boy believed to be a hopeless invalid?

invalid

[in-vuh-lid] / ˈɪn və lɪd /




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A three-judge bench ruled that the pardon granted by then president Maithripala Sirisena in May 2019 was "arbitrary and invalid".

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

Jean-Philippe Mateta is arguing the remainder of his Crystal Palace contract is invalid and has taken his case to Fifa.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Bar-licensed attorneys have also tried to fast-track the system, filing invalid for asylum or lawful permanent residency applications for unknowing clients.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

But Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier nonetheless sought to intervene in Simpson’s case, arguing in filings that the surrogacy agreement was invalid and Zhou hadn’t proved parentage under Florida law.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Then he told everybody to close their eyes—the Wart peeped—and began to swim round the invalid in a slow and stately dance.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

If you are one of those who don't need Vegemite medicinally, the thousands of invalids and babies are asking you to deny yourself of it for the time being.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2023

Patient outcomes varied depending on whether you asked the officer who lost fighters, the ferryman who shuttled the sick, the doctor who treated invalids or the adjutant who buried bodies.

From Scientific American Jul. 23, 2022

Wealthy invalids flocked to the south Devon town for its sunshine and sea air.

From The Guardian Feb. 15, 2021

Tuesday's voting was reserved for the aged, invalids, people in hospitals and the military.

From Fox News Apr. 26, 2019

He reminded me of those aged invalids you see in the poorhouse.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Last August, the U.S. military’s top appeals court upheld Bergdahl’s conviction, rejecting arguments that public comments by Trump and McCain should have invalided his prosecution, Military.com reported.

From Fox News Feb. 18, 2021

Three years later, he was invalided out of the service with stomach ulcers.

From BBC Oct. 31, 2020

He knows that the old songs give “the invalided and senile a musical opportunity to re-court their wives, re-raise their children and re-fight their wars.”

From New York Times Sep. 21, 2017

Soon he was back in the trenches, but then invalided home where he got classified B-1, “fit for garrison service abroad”.

From The Guardian Nov. 28, 2016

In three weeks, or a month at the utmost, after the receipt of his commander's letter, he might be with them all; invalided home for a three or four months' leave.

From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Grace Aguilar

There he called on Senator James A. .Reed of Missouri, who is invaliding from a recent illness.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may correct some errors, and prepare you for next invaliding day.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

Invalided to India 50 As above, includes instances of invaliding more than one as separate items.

From With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 by Anonymous

The aspirant for invaliding sat himself down again at one end of the table, as the captains did at the other.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

In hospital they are always professing to a recovery from fever that their pallid faces and enlarged spleens belie, and they take not kindly to any suggestion of invaliding.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey




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