They returned home, both of them worn with travelling, and Martha Yeardley exhausted with disease, which was making sure progress in her debilitated frame; but they were supported by the peaceful consciousness of having accomplished all the service to which they had been called to labor in common.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
The food is not assimilated, the fowls become debilitated, and though they may give a fair share of eggs, these eggs can seldom be depended upon to hatch.
"Natural and Artificial Duck Culture"
James Rankin
debilitated, degenerate stock will not produce healthy and vigorous young.
"Natural and Artificial Duck Culture"
James Rankin