Why should I tell you how all the rivers are frozen and solid, And from out of the lake frangible water is dug?
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On arriving at Yuen-min-yuen I found a number of Chinese workmen busily employed in breaking open the packages, some in one place and some in another, to the no little danger of the globes, clocks, glass lustres, and such like frangible articles, many of which must inevitably have suffered under less careful and dexterous hands than those of the Chinese.
"Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton"
John Barrow
She loved her grand-parents, and she loved the young lord, and she could not get the two loves to dwell together peaceably in her mind-a common difficulty with our weak, easily divided, hardly united natures-frangible, friable, readily distorted!
"Donal Grant"
George MacDonald