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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

Mateta also faces an uncertain future after BBC Sport's revelation on Saturday that the France striker has been arguing the final year on his Palace contract should be ruled invalid.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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

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

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

By this time, Vincent and McNeish were complete invalids and stayed in the cave in a stupor.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Once a defender, he was invalided out of the game with an ACL injury at 21.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

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

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

Just as Connie Willis salutes the resilience of Brits in her fiction about England during World War II, Kowal pays similar tribute in this novel through her depiction of grandmotherly Mrs. Richardson and invalided Lt.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2016

Then he saw the white-haired rector gazing at him piteously, and the suffering invalided mother who worshipped her son.

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But he was of those who do not take kindly to invaliding.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey

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 next in seniority was entirely adverse to the invaliding, as, without he could invalide too, he would have to go to the West Indies in the place of our surgeon.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

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

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat


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