limpsy

How she would give the little wee baby a "wish-bone," though it could not hold it one minute in its limpsy little fingers; and how she would keep on passing round nuts, and oranges, and grapes, and apples, and wonder what _had_ become of all their appetites.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

A little gray-haired, washed-out woman in an out-of-date, limpsy suit was wandering aimlessly around the room.

Mother's Excitement Over Father's Old Sweetheart 1919

"There, to be sure," said Aunt Lois, one day when our preparations were in full blast; "there comes Sam Lawson down the hill, limpsy as ever; now he'll have his doleful story to tell, and mother'll give him one of the turkeys."

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak,

Walt Whitman 1900

A pause, the crowd drops away, a white bandage is bound around and under the jaw, the propping pillows are removed, the limpsy head falls down, the arms are softly placed by the side, all composed, all still, —and the broad white sheet is thrown over everything.

Last of the War Cases. November Boughs 1892

Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak,

Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library 1884

Page 490 again, making a ball of his old hat, sidling restlessly back and forth, and displaying all the limpsy litheness of his figure, in his embarrassed attempts to show his enjoyment.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880

Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak,

Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

She sot up with somebody, and I 'm certain 't wa' n't Miss Rossiter, 'cause I see her up tol'able spry in the mornin '; but, lordy massy, somethin' or other's ben a usin 'on her up, for she was all wore out, and looked sort o' limpsy, as if there wa 'n't no starch left in her.

Oldtown Folks 1869

"There, to be sure," said Aunt Lois, one day when our preparations were in full blast, – "there comes Sam Lawson down the hill, limpsy as ever; now he 'll have his doleful story to tell, and mother' ll give him one of the turkeys."

Oldtown Folks 1869