"Debilitate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... privations. He was so, not alone because the corps was somewhat better managed and cared for than many of the others, but because he was a sober man and one physically well-educated. He did not heat his blood for fever, and debilitate his system for exposure, by the use of liquor whenever he could reach it; and having been a member of the Seventh before he joined the Zouaves, and a habitue of the Gymnasium so much affected by the members ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford |
