| 1. | The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | And indicate the same in a child, and from birth to decrepitude at every stage of its life as infancy, childhood, boyhood, youth c. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |