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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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However, the insurer told them any claim on their travel insurance for the funds they have lost would be invalid because air traffic issues were outside of the policy.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

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

She spent much of their time together stealing sideways glances at her, as if Ash had become some sort of strange creature or, perhaps, an invalid.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

Advice about food preparation for "invalids", "convalescents" or "the sickroom" would commonly take up an entire section of cookbooks.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022

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

Pandemics, mansions, triangles, illnesses, abandonments, deaths, letters and inheritances also kaleidoscopically reappear, as do grandfathers, lovers, invalids, caretakers, utopians and more.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

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

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2021

I keep telling her there’s not a dam thing in that aspirin except flour and water for imaginary invalids.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Marc Leonard and the wonderful lynchpin at the back, Craig Halkett, were invalided out of the action.

From BBC ● May 9, 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

Just as Connie Willis salutes the resilience of Brits in her fiction about England during World War II, Kowal pays similar tribute in this novel through her depiction of grandmotherly Mrs. Richardson and invalided Lt.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2016

On his return invalided to England in the following February, Evans received the thanks of the House of Commons.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The next in seniority was entirely adverse to the invaliding, as, without he could invalide too, he would have to go to the West Indies in the place of our surgeon.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

This was the first time Aubrey had been considered in condition for such festivities, and the gratification of being superior to somebody might account for his glee in invaliding his friend.

From The Trial by Charlotte Mary Yonge

In the interim, don’t forget the old clothes—the invaliding suit.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

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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