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

invalid

[in-vuh-lid] / ˈΙͺn vΙ™ lΙͺd /




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In his October 2024 final judgment, Carter ruled those leases invalid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Then the scanty supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«

If you are one of those who don't need Vegemite medicinally, the thousands of invalids and babies are asking you to deny yourself of it for the time being.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023

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

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

There were many tables with empty places or invalids who had once been as strong as horses, but the sun continued to rise.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Once a defender, he was invalided out of the game with an ACL injury at 21.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

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

In three weeks, or a month at the utmost, after the receipt of his commander's letter, he might be with them all; invalided home for a three or four months' leave.

From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Grace Aguilar

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Invalided to India 50 As above, includes instances of invaliding more than one as separate items.

From With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916β€”1917 by Anonymous

That evening Dr Thompson made the captain’s punch, having carefully locked up in his largest tea-chest his invaliding suit.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat




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