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fragile

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fragile - brittle
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Thus, with the exception of the fragile memory which the author of this book here consecrates to it, there remains to-day nothing whatever of the mysterious word engraved within the gloomy tower of Notre-Dame,--nothing of the destiny which it so sadly summed up.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
`In another moment we were standing face to face, I and this fragile thing out of futurity.
The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context
Should they then abandon their horses, cast themselves loose in fragile barks upon this wild, doubtful, and unknown river; or should they continue their more toilsome and tedious, but perhaps more certain wayfaring by land?
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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