Here Burns grew up in poverty and hardship, and the severe manual labour of the farm left its traces in a premature stoop and a weakened constitution.

Between spurts of pain and the cushion of painkillers, I was in no shape for heavy reading and mysteries seemed just undemanding enough yet sufficiently diverting to occupy my weakened constitution.

He had been pondering the disposition of his assistant, Duncan MacKenzie, who, in addition to alcoholism, chronic depession and malaria, began to be inflicted with diseases related to a weakened constitution.

Like his father, he served in the House of Commons as MP for Wycombe from 1786 to 1802 but alas due to his weakened constitution, only survived his father by four years.

There came pneumonia and grippe, stalking among them, seeking for weakened constitutions; there was the annual harvest of those whom tuberculosis had been dragging down.

The poison, however, acted extremely quickly on their weakened constitutions.

Physicians found no adequate cause for the end, and laid it to heart trouble and a weakened constitution.

Smith contracted diphtheria in November 1866 and, although he seemed to have recovered by Christmas, he was struck down by typhus that proved too much for his weakened constitution.

Given her Ballybran adaptation, the state could only have been allowed by her weakened constitution.