But these fragile girls, he knew, would only giggle and retreat if he tried to question them.

The baby, a girl, three months premature and perilously fragile, died four days later.

A hand touched her arm; she turned to face a slim, fragile girl not much older than herself.

She seemed to be an emotionally fragile girl, but down-to-earth.

She also is a very fragile and naïve girl.

These are young, fragile girls you're dealing with.

She was a fragile, asthmatic girl who lived in miserable poverty.

Just a fragile girl he had comforted while her mother was laid out in the darkness.

He needed a fragile girl like Gretchen who trusted in a simple religious faith and her own feelings.

A fragile young Chinese girl was next to him.