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Definition of Decrepitly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decrepitly
Literary usage of Decrepitly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, John Albert Macy, Annie Sullivan (1905)
"... when the sun shone the day was Shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless
and old, And she rose up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... Again it was morning, but shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and
old, And she rose up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. ..."
3. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"She also hath her monuments ; Not such as stand decrepitly resigned To ruin-mark
the path of dead events That left no seed of better days behind, ..."
4. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... Again it was morning, but shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and
old, And she rose up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. ..."
5. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"She also hath her monuments; Not such as stand decrepitly resigned To ruin-mark
the path of dead events That left no seed of better days behind, ..."
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