The explosion of sounds is muted into a low hiss in his ears, the train approaching so slowly that it's as if it's being pulled along by two decrepit oxen.
The decrepit animal would never pull the hill. The slope had always seemed so slight, so gradual, in days when she galloped up it on her fleet-footed mare.
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.
I feel, I describe it as all of a sudden flowers started growing out of the cracks of concrete outside, you know, vines and beautiful exotic birds would get swooping through the decrepit subway car.
When he saw her appear in a madapollam nightshirt and with her hair loose over her shoulders, the decrepit parish priestthought that it was a trick and sent the altar boy away.
The only being that seemed thoroughly to feel the humble and prostrate piety of a true Christian, was a poor decrepit old woman bending under the weight of years and infirmities.
Decrepit infrastructure is as much to blame, with over 40% of Capri's drinking water seeping out through leaks in its pipe network before it reaches customers.