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If it is in the ancient times, I walk to you, must be from a young teenager into a decrepit old man to get to your hand.

When the Marauders captured her and took her to their decrepit castle, Noa, Teek and Wicket teamed up to infiltrate the Marauder stronghold.

Throughout the novel, Dickens enlarges on this theme, describing slums so decrepit that whole rows of houses are on the point of ruin.

And as you get older and more decrepit, you sort of inch along on this sort of depressing, long staircase, leading you into oblivion.

The news is still bitter, though, because we have yet to see the gains of economic growth translated into the still-decrepit labour market.

The youthful dynamism of America, and now of China and India, seems to be leaving the decrepit old continent in the shade.

Although most of them were built in the run-up to the Olympics, the poor quality of construction makes them look decrepit and decades old.

It was from Vienna that the last pulses of life beat through the diseased and worn-out body of the decrepit Empire.

IN A decrepit four-storey office block, Vu The Khanh runs what he describes as one of the busiest "embassies" in Hanoi.

His incendiary rhetoric is matched in scale only by his decrepit capacity to deliver basic social services.

Hira Hira - Japanese: the feeling you get when you walk into a dark and decrepit old house in the middle of the night.

It definitely wasn't for enjoying the lukewarm caffeinated mud they dish up out of the decrepit old vending machine for half a quid.

Reveling in her newfound power, Vosa took command of the cult, leading it from a decrepit citadel on Kohlma, a burial moon orbiting Bogden.

Bumping up and down Pune's older potholed highways proves that the car's suspension can take on India's decrepit infrastructure.

For the most part, Lundazi is quiet, mildly decrepit and, in the dry season at least, always dusty.

Only with the occasional piggy-back from American consumers can the decrepit Germans, French and Italians make any progress at all.

We think ourselves too lusty and too nimble for that blear-eyed decrepit old gentleman to catch us.

A vast number of other public-sector entities, some of them decrepit, often create bottlenecks.

Aboard his exotic interstellar sail ship, Dooku traveled to a decrepit warehouse district on Coruscant.

An old, rickety vehicle, especially a decrepit automobile or aircraft.

An enterprising person is one who drives through an decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development.

Mad Henry was a hermit who lived alone in a decrepit mansion at the edge of town.

The strike, though, was not the work of Mr. Saleh's decrepit Soviet-era air force.

Even if decrepit regimes fell, he suggested, there would still be a fundamental clash of civilizations between Islam and the West.

Generally speaking, most child labor work for extended periods of time performing mundane jobs in decrepit working conditions.

The leapfrogging of decrepit state telecoms by profitable mobile telephone companies is one example.

With a close long look, I was stunned to find him, though decrepit, to be old Ah Bo. But who was I?

Thatcher loyalists are outraged that their heroine should be portrayed as decrepit, on the brink of dementia.

But they soon set a date for a shoot at Jack's apartment, a "decrepit old place" a block from campus.

Cinemas were old and decrepit, productions were clunkers and pirated videotapes and discs proliferated.

By 1997, when Labour won power, the electorate had become more worried about decrepit public services than high taxes.

The poor old woman was so decrepit that she can scarcely walk.

The lower levels fell into disrepair and decay, and the lowliest of dregs were forced into the decrepit under city.

Bill rode past the street on a horse that looked decrepit and about to collapse .

Much of this ancient but decrepit city, located 90km east of Chongqing, remains the grimy river town familiar to readers of Hessler's book.

He nodded at her and sat, looking around with distaste at the decrepit bar.

Yet Yangon's decrepit gentility exerts a certain charm amid the increasing homogeneity of urban Asia.

The Marauders, led by King Terak, captured many Ewoks to take as slave prisoners back to their decrepit castle in the plains.

"My own view is that the [political and economic] system is so decrepit that the end will come suddenly and messily, " Mr Everard said.

debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly.

I mean, can you imagine how terrifying a nation of decrepit, solipsistic 90-year-old boomers behind the wheel would be?

a Bold, decrepit -looking old man, he sat perspiring profusely, glaring at the judges.

But in an over organized world - a groaning, decrepit universe of systems - the shapeless and the worthless have a new value, a new allure.

Meanwhile, Poe samples another of America's decrepit institutions: its prison system.

METHODS The mice with decrepit model induced by D-galactose (D- gal ) were treated with LZS of different doses respectively for 4 weeks .

It tore up from the depths, shattering the windows of the decrepit cathedral.

The sobering fact remains that decrepit infrastructure makes Chinese-style growth of 10 per cent or higher unattainable.

The rides and games are old, and decrepit, enough that they're incredibly fun to ride and play.

I know from personal experience that the "existing rails" in Cambodia are decrepit.

Why did it take an hour for decrepit fire engines to reach the blazing supermarket?

Chopin's decrepit health reinforced his emotional trauma.

Just over a month ago, Kala, 32, a mother of three, had stood shaking with fear in Chennai's decrepit Kaliappa hospital.

That is one reason why productivity is feeble, though Brazil's woeful education system and decrepit infrastructure are also to blame.

Purslane has anti-decrepit and life-prolonging effects.

It tore up from the depths, shattering the windows of decrepit cathedral.

Vines and trees sprout from decrepit bungalows.

Hanging from the walls, propped on benches, resting in their decrepit boxes, are nearly 2, 000 dead.

Study of industrial successive mechanism in decrepit mining areas based on the self-organization theory

He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine;

Evaluation and Study Progress of Decrepit Animal Model

The role salicylic acid plays in the mature and decrepit of fruits

Effect of Garlic Oil on the Decrepit Mouse and the Low Immunity Mouse

Decrepit describes what is weakened, worn out, or broken down by hard use or the passage of time:

Decrepit be stricken in years

be decrepit with old age