1 He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes of his fruit-trees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 2 In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed when they were watching with the sick.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS 3 The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old rusty knocker.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES 4 The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 5 These buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running from one house to another.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION 6 His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 7 In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP 8 Then, having taken another look round, I returned to my carriage, where I found that the porter, in spite of the ticket, had given me my decrepit Italian friend as a traveling companion.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 9 The decrepit animal would never pull the hill.
10 I have a decrepit old uncle who owns three hundred souls and two thousand roubles-worth of other property.