"To have people suggest that she was a small fragile woman is mind-boggling, and they must know the truth."

But this time Leach had no fragile woman to contend with.

The fragile old woman still had a certain toughness.

And of herself, as a woman, as fragile somehow, in comparison to him?

The little girl and the musing, fragile woman of sixty seemed to understand the same language.

She was a handsome older woman, small and fragile in appearance.

He himself cannot forget "the visual impact of a fragile woman, particularly in that testimony before Congress.

Also on display is a photograph of an old, fragile Jewish woman in the ghetto.

Carol is shown to be a fragile woman, often relying on others for emotional and physical support.

She was a small, fragile woman with auburn hair wrapped into a French knot.