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Which classic novel features a boy believed to be a hopeless invalid?

invalid

[in-vuh-lid] / ˈɪn və lɪd /




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A three-judge bench ruled that the pardon granted by then president Maithripala Sirisena in May 2019 was "arbitrary and invalid".

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

And while the option of an extension cannot be completely discounted, it seems inconceivable that Mateta would perform a U-turn now given the lengths he has gone to to prove his current one is invalid.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Challenges to Essayli’s position were brought in at least three criminal cases, with defense lawyers arguing that charges filed under his watch are invalid and should be dismissed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Moynihan has more than once used “gainsay,” or to declare something as untrue or invalid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The secretary toppled into a chair next to the invalid before he could reply.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

Patient outcomes varied depending on whether you asked the officer who lost fighters, the ferryman who shuttled the sick, the doctor who treated invalids or the adjutant who buried bodies.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 23, 2022

British food manufacturers and brother duo James and William Horlick created malted milk powder as a nutritional supplement marketed for "infants and invalids."

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2021

Wealthy invalids flocked to the south Devon town for its sunshine and sea air.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2021

Tuesday's voting was reserved for the aged, invalids, people in hospitals and the military.

From Fox News ● Apr. 26, 2019

Her mother had always lived in an invalids shadow land, Briony had always required mothering from her older sister, and Leon had always floated free, and she had always loved him for it.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Beni Baningime was invalided out of the action, and in rapid fire Michael Steinwender, Stephen Kingsley and Alexandros Kyziridis went down.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Last August, the U.S. military’s top appeals court upheld Bergdahl’s conviction, rejecting arguments that public comments by Trump and McCain should have invalided his prosecution, Military.com reported.

From Fox News ● Feb. 18, 2021

He knows that the old songs give “the invalided and senile a musical opportunity to re-court their wives, re-raise their children and re-fight their wars.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2017

Soon he was back in the trenches, but then invalided home where he got classified B-1, “fit for garrison service abroad”.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 28, 2016

Then he saw the white-haired rector gazing at him piteously, and the suffering invalided mother who worshipped her son.

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn

There he called on Senator James A. .Reed of Missouri, who is invaliding from a recent illness.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he was of those who do not take kindly to invaliding.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey

In hospital they are always professing to a recovery from fever that their pallid faces and enlarged spleens belie, and they take not kindly to any suggestion of invaliding.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey

A number of medical officers convened to examine sick and wounded officers and men, for invaliding or discharge.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

The aspirant for invaliding sat himself down again at one end of the table, as the captains did at the other.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat


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